Recent recorded grades — Fall 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=9 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=12 letter grades).
Fall 2026
Composition, Arrangement, and Orchestration for the Music Teacher
Introduces the teaching of musical composition, arrangement, and orchestration, emphasizing music technologies and their implications for music learning and teaching.
Recorded instructors · Fall 2026 Amy Lewis
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Historical reviews of Brian Hyer: The course was rated as very difficult, with a high difficulty score of 4.
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Prerequisites
Course mapMUS PERF 104
CURRIC/MUSIC 304
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Fall 2026Historical instructors & teaching patterns
Historical review of Brian Hyer describes him as a terrible professor who assigns opinionated papers but marks them wrong if they disagree with his views, leading one student to drop their music major.
AMY LEWIS is recorded teaching in Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
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Fall 2026Schedule loads here as you scroll.
| Section | Mode | Enrolled / capacity | Waitlist |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEC 001 | Classroom Instruction | 1 / 1 | 0 |
| LEC 001 | Classroom Instruction | 14 / 15 | 0 |
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the class
A historical review describes Professor Brian Hyer as extremely difficult and rigid, leading one student to drop their major.
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2022: 3.71 GPA, 85.7% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Fall 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=9 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=12 letter grades).
difficulty & workload
Historical reviews of Brian Hyer: The course was rated as very difficult, with a high difficulty score of 4.
Historical reviews of Brian Hyer: Students reported that opinionated papers were marked wrong if they disagreed with the professor's views, creating a frustrating experience.
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Composition, Arrangement, and Orchestration for the Music Teacher
Recorded 2026-09-07Composition, Arrangement, and Orchestration for the Music Teacher
Recorded 2026-09-07Raw records
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