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Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
CALIFORNIA
City:
OAKLAND
Street Address:
5000 MacArthur Boulevard, Oakland, California 94613, USA
Postal Address:
PO Box 9970, Oakland, California 94613-0970, USA
Fax:
+1 510 430 3228
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Program:
Undergraduate program
Details:
Bachelor of Arts in Music. Four years. Studies include performance (classical, early music, contemporary), composition, theory, aural skills, electronic music, music history, world music, music technology, recording engineering.
Program:
Graduate programs
Details:
Master of Arts in Composition. Emphasis on electronic music and recording media. Master of Fine Arts. In performance and music literature.
Institution Notes:
A private liberal arts college for women founded in 1852. In 1871 it was granted the name Mills College in 1865 and in 2022 it joined forces with the Boston-based Northeastern University to become the Mills Institute at Northeastern University, Oakland. It becomes co-educational at the graduate level. The library houses an extensive collection of the compositions of Darius Milhaud and a large collection of tapes of first performances of experimental music from the 1950s to the present. The Center for Contemporary Music within the music department has a recording studio and offers innovative programs in sound synthesis and in electro-acoustic and computer music performance. Composition programs have always included experiments in the creation of new instruments, particularly in the electronic area.
Last Updated:
October 2022