Overview

Study Screen Scoring at University of Southern California

Partnered with the University of Southern California School for Cinematic Arts, the Screen Scoring MM program provides student composers the unique opportunity to collaborate with student filmmakers and game designers in creating music for more than 100 annual film, television and game projects. These projects generally are created “in the box” or are scored on USC’s John William Scoring Stage with Thornton student-musicians. Additionally, as part of their course work, student composers record approximately 10 scoring projects with professional musicians and engineers on Hollywood-area scoring stages. The capstone recording session is comprised of 64 professional players and takes place on the Warner Bros. Clint Eastwood Scoring Stage.

Many notable USC Thornton alumni have been honored with Oscar, Golden Globe, Bafta, Emmy, and/or Grammy nominations and awards, including Christophe Beck, Marco Beltrami, James Dooley, James Horner, James Newton Howard, Bear McCreary, David Newman, John Nordstrom, Duncan Thum, and current faculty members Bruce Broughton, Daniel Carlin, Laura Karpman, Garry Schyman, Lawrence Shragge, and Chris Young.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Individual Instruction
Composition Forum
Advanced Scoring for Motion Pictures & Television
Orchestral Scoring
Advanced Game Scoring & Integration
History of Film Scoring
Entrepreneurialism for the Screen Composer
Recording, Mixing, & Editing Music for the Screen Composer
Advanced Screen Scoring Technology
Studio Conducting and Contemporary Score Analysis

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 12 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-01-11 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-10-01 00:00:00
Starting 2027-08-23 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-12-01 00:00:00

Language

English

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IELTS

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Credits

36 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Los Angeles, United States

Disciplines

Film Studies Music Musicology View 292 other Masters in Musicology in United States

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

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Other requirements

General requirements

A video introduction of yourself seated at your workstation that is 2 to 3 minutes in length.
Full score manuscripts (with optional sketches) in PDF format of three original compositions
Audio recordings of your three submitted compositions
The Video Introduction, Compositions, and Recordings must be submitted online through the “Fall SlideRoom portal” by the December 1st deadline. Any application not complete by December 1 may be removed from consideration.

Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

73260 USD / year

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Out-of-State

73260 USD / year

≈ 73260 USD / year
Domestic

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In-State

73260 USD / year

≈ 73260 USD / year

Living costs

Los Angeles

United States

1520 - 2570 USD / month

The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.

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Study Screen Scoring at University of Southern California

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Los Angeles

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