Training
•Bullet: Composition: Brass Emphasis is one of the explicit concentration-and-emphasis routes within George Mason's 120-credit BM Music degree.
•Bullet: The composition curriculum adds a sequenced studio in original work, counterpoint, electronic composition, orchestration, music history, applied study, and a music technology and composition capstone.
Performance & Productions
•Bullet: Brass study connects applied work with wind, symphonic, orchestral, or jazz ensemble options and the keyboard or technique requirements published for this emphasis.
•Bullet: The path retains the shared BM core in aural skills, theory, keyboard proficiency, recital attendance, musical communication, and music history while making the published brass emphasis visible to applicants.
•Bullet: The Composition: Brass Emphasis keeps original composition at the center while requiring both a three-to-four-work portfolio and a primary-area performance audition.
•Bullet: Brass applicants use the published winds, brass, strings, and keyboard framework: two contrasting selections totaling about ten minutes, plus sight-reading and a brief aural check.
