Composition

Stephen Hartke, Professor of Composition; division director

Composition Department

Stephen Hartke, Professor of Composition; chair

Michael A. Frazier, Assistant Professor of Composition
Jesse B. Jones, Associate Professor of Composition
Soomin Kim, Visiting Assistant Professor of Composition

Contemporary Music and Improvisation Program

Dana E. Jessen, Associate Professor of Contemporary Music and Improvisation and Director of Professional Development

 Visit the composition web page for more information on this division and its faculty and instructional staff.

Programs

• Composition Major

• Composition Minor
• Improvisation Minor

Courses

• APST 143 - Approaches and Philosophies of Free Music
• APST 145 - Special Topics in Improvisation and Creative Music
• APST 818 - Oberlin Creative Music Lab

• COMP 101 - Composition for Non-Majors
• COMP 201 - Composition I
• COMP 202 - Composition II
• COMP 211 - Instrumentation
• COMP 222 - Counterpoint I
• COMP 251 - Composition Seminar I
• COMP 252 - Composition Seminar II
• COMP 301 - Composition III
• COMP 302 - Composition IV
• COMP 311 - Orchestration
• COMP 332 - Survey of Compositional Forms and Structures
• COMP 350 - Special Topics in Composition
• COMP 351 - Composition Seminar III
• COMP 352 - Composition Seminar IV
• COMP 421 - Counterpoint II
• COMP 995F - Private Reading - Full
• COMP 995H - Private Reading - Half

• PVST 027 - Principal Private Study - Composition
• PVST 076 - Secondary Private Study - Contemporary Improvisation
• PVST 077 - Secondary Private Study - Composition