Extended Accelerator - Bachelor of Music - Music Theory

Explore the Bachelor of Music in Music Theory at USC! Gain comprehensive skills in theory and aural skills. Apply now for international student support!

The foundation of Bachelor of Music in Music Theory is a rigorous two-year undergraduate sequence that instructs all music majors and minors in written theory and aural skills. The University of South Carolina also offers a Master of Music and Doctoral Minor in Music Theory. The University provide students with a wide variety of innovative courses designed to serve the needs of undergraduate and graduate degrees in composition, conducting, education, history, performance and theory. The University also offer research opportunities where students can work closely with faculty mentors to explore interests in music theory and related fields such as composition, musicology and technology. The area regularly offers graduate-level courses in counterpoint, form and analysis, post-tonal theory, analysis and performance, contemporary style analysis, pedagogy of music theory, Schenkerian analysis and doctoral-level topics courses.