What is the difference between studying music and studying music theory?
I plot to study composition in institution, but I want to choose if I should have a degree in composition or composition theory. I want to know what distinctions there are between the two.
Well I know that at my school, just a regular composition degree requires you to also have a foremost. Other degrees, Composition Education, Composition Performance, Place of worship Composition, etc.. don’t. A composition theory degree sometimes is a composition theory/composition degree. You write composition and analyze scores and stuff.
Composition Theory studies specifically train you for composing composition (i.e. movie scores, etc). Other Composition degrees can train you for teaching (BSEd), Business, or Performance.
Composition is your foremost, theory is an accent within that foremost. If you study composition theory, you are still studying composition.
For example:
Foremost = Composition:
Accent = Performance
Conducting
Theory
General
Education
If you get an accent in theory it generally means you intend to teach or to compose. If you do do as theory accent but don’t let you instrumental skills go to the wayside.