Film composer Jerry Goldsmith with UCLA Composition professor Paul Chihara

Music for Theater, Film, Television, and other digital media can be studied in many ways in the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music:

as an aspect of music history in the Musicology Department;
as opera and musical theater performance in the Music Department;
as a compositional medium in the Music Department; and
as a problem in music psychology in the Ethnomusicology Department.

To find out more our teaching in this area, consult the course listings for each department and check out the faculty profiles of some of those who teach in this area:

Roger Bourland, Composition
Vladimir Chernoff, Voice
Paul Chihara, Composition
Michael Dean, Voice
Juliana Gondek, Voice
Peter Kazaras, Director of Opera and Musical Theater
Roger Kendall, Ethnomusicology
Raymond Knapp, Musicology
Mitchell Morris, Musicology