<p>One thing…there is no official audition or composition portfolio review to major in music at a liberal arts schools- which includes all your Ivies and smaller LACs on the undergraduate level. Rather, as long as you get permission from the instructor, you should be able to take composition classes.</p>
<p>I’m just rereading BassDad’s comments from before:
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<p>You should pretty much be able to learn all this stuff from a good first year standard classical theory course or AP theory…give and take a few topics esp in counterpoint.</p>