音乐学学士学位

布莱尔音乐学院是范德比尔特大学的焦点，致力于研究音乐是人类的努力，也是表演艺术。作曲音乐学士学位向认真学习音乐的学生介绍各种风格的和谐，配音，对位，结构和分析/合成技术的原理，此外，它还培养了聆听音调关系的所有重要技能与设施和口头交流音乐的结构和材料。教师传授作曲，与表演者合作以及确保专业表演的艺术。
The Blair School of Music serves as a focal point at Vanderbilt for the study of music as a human endeavor and as a performing art, currently enrolling students from over thirty-five states and multiple countries. The Bachelor of Music degree in Composition introduces serious students of music to the creative principles of structure, harmonic language, and compositional technique in a variety of styles and media, further, it fosters the all-important skills of both writing and communicating orally the meaning and value of music. Faculty teach the art of composing, of working with performers, and of developing professional careers, while simultaneously modeling myriad approaches to the contributions of music within diverse communities.<br><br>Applicants to the composition program should submit all Vanderbilt application materials as well as a Blair School of Music application. Applicants must include three original scores and accompanying recordings (at least one live recording is preferred), as well as a brief video performing one selection on their primary instrument, to fulfill the prescreening requirement of the Blair application.<br><br>Blair alumni have continued on to successful careers and/or graduate studies both inside and outside of music, including graduate studies in concert art music at major schools of music in the United States and Europe, film scoring, arranging, and orchestrating, and applied work in other aspects of the music industry, such as arts administration and business. Composition majors may also choose to enhance their studies by taking a minor or second major in another field, at times in pursuit of admission into top Medical Schools and Law Schools.