Bachelor in Music Composition - Composición Musical

Start your musical career in a multidisciplinary artistic environment

Develop your compositional creativity relying on new technologies and your passion for music.

Prepare to develop yourself in different compositional fields, from soundtracks for films, TV series, advertising or video games, to current urban music, including musical theater or corporate communication.

The Official Degree in Musical Composition trains highly qualified composers for musical creation in a great diversity of genres and styles, integrating new technological and audiovisual media. In addition to purely musical learning, you will learn to convert your ideas into concrete and real projects and to manage and insert them professionally.

This comprehensive training includes individualized monitoring throughout the entire training process that will allow you to achieve artistic and personal maturity to advance in your professional career.

Candidates opting for the program in English must have a level of fluency in English that is sufficient to study, understand instructions, take notes, acquire additional information from sources written in English, write papers and sit for exams.

The recommended level is B2 CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: learning, teaching, assessment).

Level B2: Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialisation. Can interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without strain for either party. Can produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain a viewpoint on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.

Individuals who want to compose, without having first to acquire a mastery of the language of music or a particular instrument, by taking advantage of the effectiveness and speed new technologies bring to music composition.

Future composers who are passionate about music, highly sensitive and imaginative, willing to explore a variety of contemporary styles, in music and stage and audiovisual contexts.

Persons seeking a university degree, strengthening the foundations for future employment.

YEAR 1
Music composition I
Projects I
Survey of classical music
Piano harmony I
Instrumental and vocal practice
Ear training
Orchestration & mockups I
Digital editing of notation and scores
Music production I

YEAR 2
Intellectual property law
Music composition II
Projects II
Culture and creative thought
Piano harmony II
Ear training II
Orchestration and mockups II
Modern language
Professional ethics and equality

YEAR 3
Music composition III
Projects III
Music composition for audiovisual media I
Piano harmony III
Ear training III
Contemporary techniques in music composition
Trends in urban music I
Orchestration and mockups III
Music production II

YEAR 4
Music composition IV
Projects IV
Music composition for audiovisual media II
Trends in urban music II
Industry, business and career development
External internship
Academic recognition of credits
Final degree thesis project

Music for the stage
Composer, producer and arranger for stage works, comedies, dance and experimental shows; music and soundtracks supervisor.

Soundtracks and audiovisual media
Composer and orchestrator for soundtracks in films, documentary, short films, TV series and shows, radio, jingles and openings, commercials, industrial and multimedia video; supervisor for original and adapted music; radio broadcaster and DJ in music stations.

Other careers
Composer for orchestra, chamber music and ensembles; music file manager; sheet music editor; teacher / researcher.