A music school or conservatory (American English) — also known as a conservatoire (British English) or a conservatorium (Australian English) — is an institution dedicated to teaching the art of music, including the playing of musical instruments, musical composition, musicianship, music history, and music theory. American English or U.S. English is the form of the English language used mostly in the United States of America. ... British English is a term primarily used by people outside of the UK to refer to the form of the English language spoken in the British Isles. ... Australian English is the form of the English language used in Australia. ... Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Music Look up Music in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Wikicities has a wiki about Music: Music Music City : a collaborative music database All Music Guide: includes a comprehensive and flexible Genre and Style system MusicWiki: A Collaborative Music-related encyclopedia Science... A musical instrument is a device that has been constructed or modified with the purpose of making music. ... Musical composition has three meanings in music: an original piece of music the musical structure of a musical piece the process of creating a new piece of music A musical composition A piece of music exists in the form of a written composition in musical notation or as a single... This article is about the academic field of music history, for an overview of music, see: history of music. ... Music theory is the name for a branch of study that includes many different methods for analyzing, classifying, and composing music and the elements of music. ...

Some music schools, such as the Yehudi Menuhin School, include other academic subjects in their curricula. The Yehudi Menuhin School is a specialist music school in Surrey, England. ... In education, a curriculum (plural curricula) is the set of courses and their contents offered by an institution such as a school or university. ...

Prominent music schools

Austria

• University Mozarteum Salzburg [1]
• Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien [2]

Australia

• Sydney Conservatorium of Music

The Sydney Conservatorium of Music (formerly the New South Wales State Conservatorium of Music) is a faculty of the University of Sydney in Australia. ...

Argentina

• Conservatorio Nacional de Música

Canada

• Conservatoire de musique et d'art dramatique du Québec (nine schools)
• Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto)
• McGill University Faculty of Music

The Royal Conservatory of Music is a music school in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... McGill University is a publicly funded, research-intensive, non-denominational, co-educational university located in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. ...

Denmark

• Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus

Finland

• Sibelius Academy

The Sibelius Academy is a music school in Helsinki. ...

France

• Conservatoire de Paris
• Conservatoire de Nice

Former Conservatoire building (until 1911), still used as Théâtre du Conservatoire Conservatoire de Paris, or Paris Conservatoire, has been central to the evolution of music in France and Western Europe. ...

Germany

Universities of Music

• Aachen: Hochschule für Musik Köln, Abt. Aachen
• Augsburg: Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg-Augsburg, Abt. Augsburg
• Berlin: Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler"
• Berlin: Universität der Künste Berlin
• Bremen: Hochschule für Künste Bremen [3]
• Detmold: Hochschule für Musik Detmold [4]
• Dresden: Hochschule für Musik Dresden "Carl Maria von Weber" [5]
• Düsseldorf: Robert-Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf
• Essen: Folkwang Hochschule im Ruhrgebiet
• Frankfurt am Main: Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main [6]
• Freiburg im Breisgau: Hochschule für Musik Freiburg [7]
• Halle (Saale): Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Institut für Musikpädagogik
• Hamburg: Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg
• Hannover: Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover
• Karlsruhe: Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe
• Köln: Hochschule für Musik Köln
• Leipzig: Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig
• Lübeck: Musikhochschule Lübeck
• Mainz: Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Fachbereich Musik
• Mannheim: Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim [8]
• München: Hochschule für Musik und Theater München
• Münster: Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Fachbereich Musik
• Nürnberg: Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg-Augsburg, Abt. Nürnberg
• Osnabrück: Universität Osnabrück, Fachgebiet Musik
• Rostock: Hochschule für Musik und Theater Rostock
• Saarbrücken: Hochschule des Saarlandes für Musik und Theater [9]
• Stuttgart: Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart [10]
• Trossingen: Hochschule für Musik Trossingen
• Weimar: Hochschule für Musik "Franz Liszt" Weimar [11]
• Würzburg: Hochschule für Musik Würzburg [12]
• Wuppertal: Hochschule für Musik Köln, Abt. Wuppertal

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Universities of Spiritual Music

• Aachen: Katholische Hochschule für Kirchenmusik St. Gregorius Aachen [13]
• Bayreuth: Evangelische Hochschule für Kirchenmusik [14]
• Dresden: Evangelische Hochschule für Kirchenmusik [15]
• Görlitz: Hochschule für Kirchenmusik der Evangelischen Kirche Berlin-Brandenburg - schlesische Oberlausitz [16]
• Halle (Saale): Evangelische Hochschule für Kirchenmusik Halle [17]
• Heidelberg: Evangelische Hochschule für Kirchenmusik [18]
• Herford: Evangelische Hochschule für Kirchenmusik [19]
• Regensburg: Hochschule für Katholische Kirchenmusik und Musikpädagogik [20]
• Rottenburg: Katholische Hochschule für Kirchenmusik [21]
• Tübingen: Evangelische Hochschule für Kirchenmusik [22]

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Conservatoires

• Berlin: Stern'sches Konservatorium
• Frankfurt: Stiftung Hoch'sches Konservatorium - Musikakademie Frankfurt am Main
• Hamburg: Hamburger Konservatorium
• Mainz: Peter-Cornelius-Konservatorium der Stadt Mainz
• München: Richard-Strauss-Konservatorium - Fachakademie für Musik der Stadt München
• Osnabrück: Fachhochschule Osnabrück - Konservatorium
• Trossingen: Hohner-Konservatorium [23]

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Italy

• Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia
• Milan Conservatory

The Milan Conservatory is a famous music school in Milan whose alumni include Giacomo Puccini, Vittorio Giannini, Francisco Mignone, and Italo Montemezzi Categories: Music stubs | Music schools ...

The Netherlands

• Royal Conservatory of The Hague

The Royal Conservatory of The Hague (in Dutch: Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag) is a music school in The Hague (the Netherlands) with many foreign students. ...

Spain

• Centro Superior de Música del País Vasco, San Sebastián/Donostia
• Conservatorio Superior de Música del Liceo, Barcelona
• Conservatorio Superior de Música, Córdoba
• Conservatorio Superior de Música, Murcia
• Conservatorio Superior de Música, Salamanca
• Escuela Superior de Música de Cataluña, Barcelona
• Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía, Madrid
• Real Conservatorio Superior de Música, Madrid

Madrid Conservatory (in Spanish: Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid) is a music school in Madrid, Spain. ...

Russia

• Moscow Conservatory
• St Petersburg Conservatory

The Moscow Conservatory is a prominent music school in Russia. ... The St. ...

UK

Undergraduate & postgraduate

• Birmingham Conservatoire (part of the University of Central England in Birmingham)
• Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London
• Leeds College of Music
• Royal Academy of Music, London (part of the University of London)
• Royal College of Music, London
• Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
• Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Glasgow
• Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff (part of the University of Wales)
• Trinity College of Music, London

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Secondary and younger

• Chetham's School of Music
• City of Edinburgh Music School
• Purcell School
• Yehudi Menuhin School

Chethams School of Music, familiarly known as Chets, is a specialist music school in Manchester. ... The City of Edinburgh Music School is a public music school in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. ... The Yehudi Menuhin School is a specialist music school in Surrey, England. ...

USA

• The Boston Conservatory (Boston, MA)
• California Institute of the Arts (Valencia, CA)
• Curtis Institute of Music (Philadelphia)
• Berklee College of Music (Boston)
• Eastman School of Music (Rochester)
• Florida State University College of Music (Tallahassee, FL)
• Indiana University School of Music (Bloomington, IN)
• The Juilliard School (New York)
• Longy School of Music (Boston)
• Manhattan School of Music (New York)
• Mannes College of Music (New York)
• Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ)
• New England Conservatory of Music (Boston)
• North Carolina School of the Arts (Winston-Salem, North Carolina)
• Northwestern University School of Music (Evanston, IL)
• Oberlin Conservatory (Oberlin, OH)
• Peabody Institute (Baltimore, MD)
• San Francisco Conservatory of Music (San Francisco, CA)
• University of Illinois School of Music (Urbana, IL)
• University of North Texas School of Music (Denton, Texas)
• University of Southern California Thornton School of Music (Los Angeles, CA)
• Westminster Choir College of Rider University (Princeton, NJ)

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See also

• Category:Music schools

External links

• World Music Central's guide to Music Schools. This guide centers on music schools that teach world music and roots music in general.