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Music, Conservatory ofDepartment Chairperson: Maclntyre, BruceAssistant Director: Cohen, Douglas Coordinator of Music Education: Moss, Emily A. Location: 422 Whitehead Hall Phone: 718-951-5286 Fax: 718-951-4502 
The Conservatory of Music of Brooklyn College is one of New York City's leading institutions for music study and performance. Each year two hundred music majors study with our distinguished faculty, which includes prominent performers, composers, conductors, musicologists, theorists, and music educators. Faculty members bring their research and professional experience to each classroom, rehearsal, and performance to provide our students with the training essential for a successful career in music. Conservatory faculty and students serve the greater Brooklyn College community through numerous public events, including symposia and guest speakers. More than one hundred yearly public concerts and recitals provide rich opportunities for students to perform repertory ranging from early music to works by living composers. In addition to its classrooms and practice rooms, recording and teaching studios, a music-technology lab, a first-rate music library, and a student lounge, the Conservatory utilizes several Brooklyn College performance venues, including the Whitman Auditorium, Gershwin Theater, Levenson Recital Hall, and Woody Tanger Auditorium. By 2010 these facilities will be augmented by an additional concert hall in the new Tow Center for the Performing Arts. The conservatory is home to the Institute for Studies in American Music (ISAM) and the Center for Computer Music, and is affiliated with the cutting-edge multi-media Brooklyn College Program in Performance and Interactive Media Arts (PIMA). Our students also benefit from master classes by distinguished visiting composers and performers, a fully-staged opera production every semester, and the semiannual Electro-Acoustic Music Festival. Internship opportunities abound with such groups as the Brooklyn College String Project, the Brooklyn College Preparatory Center for the Performing Arts and other local performing-arts agencies. The Conservatory of Music offers a bachelor of arts (B.A.) in music, designed for students who seek a cogent music curriculum as well as elective credits in other disciplines. Students wishing to concentrate in music performance, music composition, or music education (for grades K-12 teaching certification) take a bachelor of music (B.Mus.) degree and complete additional music or education courses, according to the concentration. One of these degrees is usually required for acceptance into a master's degree program in music. The conservatory also offers a music concentration for education majors in the following programs: early childhood education teacher (birth-grade 2); childhood education teacher (grades 1-6). The department is also affiliated with the College's American Studies Program and offers a 15-credit interdisciplinary minor in American music and culture aimed at fostering a greater understanding of music and its contribution to society. Entering students take a placement test to evaluate their ability to read musical notation and their knowledge of such musical rudiments as key signatures, scales, intervals, chords, rhythm, and meter. Depending upon placement, students take up to four semesters of keyboard workshop. All degree programs also include courses in ear training, harmonic and contrapuntal techniques, analysis, and history. In addition, music majors must audition in their primary instrument or in voice and take two to eight semesters of performance lessons, depending on their concentration, during which they perform in a chorus, an orchestra, or a wind, contemporary, or jazz ensemble. Our students go on to successful careers as music educators, orchestral players, Broadway pit musicians, professional singers, composers and arrangers, critics, college professors, music librarians, and in such fields as music technology, media arts, and music publishing and management. Students who wish to pursue graduate studies may apply to the master's and doctoral degree programs offered by or in conjunction with this department.
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