Berklee College of Music, founded in 1945, is an independent music college in Boston, Massachusetts with many prominent faculty, staff, alumni, and visiting artists. It has an enrollment of approximately 3,800 students and a faculty of approximately 430 (as of 2004). Berklee offers a fully accredited four-year baccalaureate degree or diploma. Degree program tuition is approximately $23,450 for the fall through spring academic year (as of 2006). The date of establishment or date of founding of an institution is the date on which that institution chooses to claim as its starting point. ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday. ... Private schools, or independent schools, are schools not administered by local, state, or national government, which retain the right to select their student body and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students tuition rather than with public (state) funds. ... University President is the title of the highest ranking officer within a university, within university systems that prefer that appellation over other variations such as Chancellor or rector. ... Alternate uses: Student (disambiguation) Etymologically derived through Middle English from the Latin second-type conjugation verb stŭdērĕ, which means to study, a student is one who studies. ... Nickname: Location in Massachusetts, USA Coordinates: Country United States State Massachusetts County Suffolk County Government  - Mayor Thomas M. Menino (D) Area  - City  89. ... Official language(s) English Capital Boston Largest city Boston Area  Ranked 44th  - Total 10,555 sq mi (27,360 km²)  - Width 183 miles (295 km)  - Length 113 miles (182 km)  - % water 13. ... Crowded Shibuya, Tokyo shopping district An urban area is an area with an increased density of human-created structures in comparison to the areas surrounding it. ... A Web site (or colloquially, Website) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on a Web server, usually accessible via the Internet or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML, that is almost always accessible via HTTP... Nickname: Location in Massachusetts, USA Coordinates: Country United States State Massachusetts County Suffolk County Government  - Mayor Thomas M. Menino (D) Area  - City  89. ... A faculty is a division within a university. ... The following is a list of notable alumni of Berklee College of Music. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2006 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Berklee College of Music is not to be confused with the University of California's Berkeley campus. Berkeley Davis Irvine Los Angeles Merced San Diego Santa Barbara Santa Cruz UC Office of the President in Oakland The University of California (UC) is a public university system in the state of California. ... Sather tower (the Campanile) looking out over the San Francisco Bay and Mount Tamalpais. ...

History

Berklee was founded by Lawrence Berk and was originally named Schillinger House of Music, after his teacher Joseph Schillinger. The original purpose of the school was to show the Schillinger System of musical harmony and composition. After expansion of the school's curriculum in 1954, Berk changed the name to Berklee School of Music after his son Lee Berk and as a pun on the name of the famous University of California, Berkeley (even today, the two schools are often misunderstood to be affiliated or part of the same institution). When the school received its accreditation, the name was changed to Berklee College of Music in 1973. Lee Berk never formally studied music, instead focusing on Business and Real Estate Law, however his daughter Lucy Berk is an alumna of the college. Joseph Schillinger (1895-1943) was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine (at that time, part of Russia). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... In education, a curriculum (plural curricula) is the set of courses and their contents offered by an institution such as a school or university. ... Sather tower (the Campanile) looking out over the San Francisco Bay and Mount Tamalpais. ... Accreditation is a process by which a facilitys services and operations are examined by a third-party accrediting agency to determine if applicable standards are met. ... An alumn (with a silent n), alum, alumnus, or alumna is a former student of a college, university, or school. ...

At the time of its founding, almost all music schools focused primarily on classical music. The original mission of Berklee was to provide formal training in jazz, rock, and other contemporary music not available at other music schools. Jazz is a musical art form that originated in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States around the start of the 20th century. ... Rock is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars, and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles, however saxophones have been omitted from newer subgenres of rock music since the 90s. ... Popular music is music belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are accessible to the general public and are disseminated by one or more of the mass media. ...

Admission requirements for applicants include a minimum two years of formal music study on their primary instrument and/or significant practical experience in musical performance, a diploma from an accredited secondary school with satisfactory marks in college-preparatory courses, and, for degree candidates only, satisfactory scores on either the SAT, ACT, or TOEFL (for international students). While in the past it was only strongly recommended, for the 2007 Summer and Fall semesters and beyond, a live audition has been added as a requirement for admission. ^[1] This is a change from the school's open-admittance policy it used for many years. Berklee's acceptance rate for prospective students is now 32%.^[2][3]

Athletics

Since Berklee is a music school, athletics are not a focus of campus life. If students want to play sports, they can sign up for NCAA Division III athletics at Emerson College due to Berklee's membership in the Professional Arts Consortium. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA, often pronounced N-C-Double-A or N-C-Two-A ) is a voluntary association of about 1,200 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States. ... Division III consists of institutions who recognize that collegiate athletics can be an integral part of the educational process. ... Emerson College was founded in 1880 by Charles Wesley Emerson as a school of oratory, in Boston, Massachusetts. ... The Professional Arts Consortium (ProArts) is an association of six Boston area institutions of higher education with emphsis to visual and performing arts. ...

However, in February 2006, several students (led by guitarist John Kingsley of Atlanta, Georgia) got together and organized the Berklee Ice Cats, an ice hockey team that is Berklee's first official athletic institution. The Berklee hockey team compete in the New England Senior Hockey League in the 2006–2007 season, and had great success. It will begin its first official intercollegiate season in the American Collegiate Hockey Association (ACHA) in 2007-2008. The team practices in Cambridge. Berklee's debut into the world of intercollegiate sports was on September 16, 2006, against Emerson College for the inaugural Boylston Cup, emerging victorious with a score of 10-7. Ice hockey, known simply as hockey in areas where it is more common than field hockey, is a team sport played on ice. ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the CE era. ... Official ACHA Logo The American Collegiate Hockey Association (ACHA) began as a mens collegiate hockey league in 1992, and quickly grew to a league of over 150 teams in three mens divisions. ... 2008 (MMVIII) will be a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... // 1400 - Owain Glyndŵr declared Prince of Wales by his followers. ... Emerson College was founded in 1880 by Charles Wesley Emerson as a school of oratory, in Boston, Massachusetts. ...

In 2007, the Ice Cats signed on former Boston Bruins player John McKenzie as head coach. The Boston Bruins are a professional ice hockey team based in Boston, Massachusetts. ... John McKenzie (born December 12, 1937 in High River, Alberta, Canada) is a former Canadian professional hockey player. ...

Shane Flanagan scored the first goal against Emerson on September 16, 2006. It took nearly 6 months and a road trip to New Hampshire to get a shutout, but Colin Greenlaw finally shut out Colby-Sawyer college on February 28, 2007. // 1400 - Owain Glyndŵr declared Prince of Wales by his followers. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... February 28 is the 59th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the CE era. ...

Demographics and statistics

The back-side of the Berklee Performance Center, viewed from Boylston St.

Berklee has a large percentage of undergraduate students from outside the U.S.—26 percent—representing more than 70 countries. ^[4] Women comprise 24.6 percent of the student body. Domestic minority enrollment is African-American, 6.4 percent; Hispanic, 5.5 percent; Asian-American, 4.1 percent. The five countries that supply the largest percentage of foreign students to Berklee are Japan, Korea, Germany, Switzerland, and Brazil. The school's current president, Roger H. Brown, was inaugurated in 2004. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1643x1038, 1072 KB) Summary Berklee College of Music, 1140 Boylston St. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1643x1038, 1072 KB) Summary Berklee College of Music, 1140 Boylston St. ... Languages Predominantly American English Religions Protestantism (chiefly Baptist and Methodist); Roman Catholicism; Islam Related ethnic groups Sub-Saharan Africans and other African groups, some with Native American groups. ... The Hispanic world. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... Korea (Korean: 한국 or ì¡°ì„ , see below) is a geographic area, civilization, and former state situated on the Korean Peninsula in East Asia. ...

Berklee offers three full time semesters per year: Fall, Spring, and Summer. The Fall and Spring semesters are 16 weeks in length, whereas the Summer semester is compacted into 12 weeks.

There are 230 acoustic pianos and more than 1,000 guitar principals at Berklee. The average class size is 11. The holdings of the college's Stan Getz Media Center and Library include more than 20,000 recordings, 20,000 books, 17,000 musical scores, and 6,000 lead sheets. Stan Getz Stanley Getz, better known as Stan Getz (February 2, 1927 – June 6, 1991) was an American jazz musician. ...

Facilities

• 17 buildings in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood
• 3 dormitories in the Back Bay and Fenway-Kenmore neighborhoods
• A practice and rehearsal building in Boston's Allston-Brighton neighborhood

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Majors

• Performance
• Composition

• Music Production & Engineering
  

  

  Berklee Performance Center
• Film Scoring
• Music Business/Management
• Music Synthesis
• Contemporary Writing & Production
• Music Education
• Songwriting
• Music
• Professional Music

Musical composition is: a piece of music the structure of a musical piece the process of creating a new piece of music // A piece of music exists in the form of a written composition in musical notation or as a single acoustic event (a live performance or recorded track). ... Image File history File links Berkleecenter. ... Image File history File links Berkleecenter. ... For the record label, see Film Score Monthly. ... A songwriter is someone who writes either the lyrics or the music for songs. ... For other uses, see Music (disambiguation). ...

Notable alumni

Main article: List of notable alumni of Berklee College of Music

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See also

• Category:Berklee College of Music alumni

Notes

1. ^ Berklee Admissions Requirements. Retrieved on 2006-09-21.
2. ^ College Board. Retrieved on 2007-04-02.
3. ^ Berklee Today: The State of the College. Retrieved on 2006-12-20.
4. ^ Berklee About Berklee. Retrieved on 2006-11-28.

For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... September 21 is the 264th day of the year (265th in leap years). ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the CE era. ... April 2 is the 92nd day of the year (93rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 273 days remaining. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... December 20 is the 354th day of the year (355th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... November 28 is the 332nd day (333rd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...

External link

• Berklee College of Music official site
• Berklee College of Music online courses