So the way it works is domestic students usually pay around 4k a semester - this is because we do 24 credit points that overall cost up to around 4K (currently) - international students get charged a lot more. In terms of additional fees - you only get charged the student amenities fees which are like 150$ - you can get your own tutor and that will cost you.
@@stuckforideas1 you say I get my own tutor... the fees (4k a semester) only includes lectures and not tutor for composition?) so how much would that cost me a semester?
Oh right ok so tutor I mean for other subjects - for composition (not cci) you get a 1 on 1 tutor allocated to you each semester which changes - also the amount of time changes as you progress in the degree. So this 1 on 1 tutor is included in the class fee already not an extra cost.
The process for me (as it was during covid) was submit my portfolio then have an interview - you get an interview no matter what. - in the interview they asked me a few questions about my pieces and my own background in music and inspirations - they were super nice and kept on complementing my works. - I also got early entry which was super nice… I’d say if you wanna do music in University and have the 50usd (70 aud) for the audition fee then go for it!! - I def didn’t think I would get in but here I am a year and a half into the degree…
The composition staff are mainly great - I’ve had 1 tutor I didn’t like so far but the rest have been super helpful… as for film music, maybe consider applying for the CCI stream? That’s comp for creative industries so it’s more media and film focused - they teach you abt the industry and writing whereas comp you more just get to learn abt composition (learning abt the industry is super important esp for something as competitive as Film Music)
@@stuckforideas1 Ahh ok, thank you so much for being so helpful! I think I'll consider that CCI option, as I want to be a music teacher for my career and also to work for film and media as my side hustle.
Yes it was on musescore although as soon as I found out I was accepted I basically switched back over to finale - which I still use now although I have also bought dorico… (started on finale, moved to musescore and now back to finale/ considering learning dorico) Is musescore your software of choice?
@@stuckforideas1 yeah, I recently just started composing music and the reviews were saying musescore 4 was really good and free. So for now I'm gonna probably stick to musescore till I save up for a different software and get a keyboard
That’s great! Musescore can take you very far so don’t worry abt upgrading for a while (infact if you never intend to do it professionally don’t bother upgrading at all unless you really want to) - there are people at my University doing the same comp course as me who still use musescore… keep up the composing!
Hello Igor Orlic, When I got into SCM I had limited music theory knowledge and was quite limited in my compositional knowledge - already 1 year and a bit in I have learnt so much…
So far I have actually really enjoyed it - I was quite scared to begin with but glad I ended up going. Would recommend if you don’t really have any other things that you want to do a degree in because remember this is a lot of money to be spending on something that might not necessarily take you anywhere…
@@stuckforideas1Composing and performing are my life. I am a piano teacher now and studying classical composition privately with a teacher now. I did go to Berklee College of Music some years back for Dual Major in Piano Performance and Music Composition but after 2 years had to drop out because my loans were so high I was scared I would never pay them back. So if I go back to college now I would have to get a full or at least BIG scholarship. I have dreams to go to Curtis, but I would need a miracle to get in there!!!!!
Hey, yes it is on their website - www.sydney.edu.au/music/study-music/undergraduate-courses-and-admission.html there is a little grey box on the right hand side that says "Undergraduate pre-admission and audition requirements" where you can download the information. good luck!
When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton. Bilbo was very rich and very peculiar, and had been the wonder of the Shire for sixty years, ever since his remarkable disappearance and unexpected return. The riches he had brought back from his travels had now become a local legend, and it was popularly believed, whatever the old folk might say, that the Hill at Bag End was full of tunnels stuffed with treasure. And if that was not enough for fame, there was also his prolonged vigour to marvel at. Time wore on, but it seemed to have little effect on Mr. Baggins. At ninety he was much the same as at fifty. At ninety-nine they began to call him well-preserved; but unchanged would have been nearer the mark. There were some that shook their heads and thought this was too much of a good thing; it seemed unfair that anyone should possess (apparently) perpetual youth as well as (reputedly) inexhaustible wealth. ‘It will have to be paid for,’ they said. ‘It isn’t natural, and trouble will come of it!’ But so far trouble had not come; and as Mr. Baggins was generous with his money, most people were willing to forgive him his oddities and his good fortune. He remained on visiting terms with his relatives (except, of course, the Sackville-Bagginses), and he had many devoted admirers among the hobbits of poor and unimportant families. But he had no close friends, until some of his younger cousins began to grow up. 28 the fellowship of the ring The eldest of these, and Bilbo’s favourite, was young Frodo Baggins. When Bilbo was ninety-nine he adopted Frodo as his heir, and brought him to live at Bag End; and the hopes of the Sackville-Bagginses were finally dashed. Bilbo and Frodo happened to have the same birthday, September 22nd. ‘You had better come and live here, Frodo my lad,’ said Bilbo one day; ‘and then we can celebrate our birthday-parties comfortably together.’ At that time Frodo was still in his tweens, as the hobbits called the irresponsible twenties between childhood and coming of age at thirty-three. Twelve more years passed. Each year the Bagginses had given very lively combined birthday-parties at Bag End; but now it was understood that something quite exceptional was being planned for that autumn. Bilbo was going to be eleventy-one, 111, a rather curious number, and a very respectable age for a hobbit (the Old Took himself had only reached 130); and Frodo was going to be thirty-three, 33, an important number: the date of his ‘coming of age’. Tongues began to wag in Hobbiton and Bywater; and rumour of the coming event travelled all over the Shire. The history and character of Mr. Bilbo Baggins became once again the chief topic of conversation; and the older folk suddenly found their reminiscences in welcome demand. No one had a more attentive audience than old Ham Gamgee, commonly known as the Gaffer. He held forth at The Ivy Bush, a small inn on the Bywater road; and he spoke with some authority, for he had tended the garden at Bag End for forty years, and had helped old Holman in the same job before that. Now that he was himself growing old and stiff in the joints, the job was mainly carried on by his youngest son, Sam Gamgee. Both father and son were on very friendly terms with Bilbo and Frodo. They lived on the Hill itself, in Number 3 Bagshot Row just below Bag End. ‘A very nice well-spoken gentlehobbit is Mr. Bilbo, as I’ve always said,’ the Gaffer declared. With perfect truth: for Bilbo was very polite to him, calling him ‘Master Hamfast’, and a long-expected party 29 consulting him constantly upon the growing of vegetables - in the matter of ‘roots’, especially potatoes, the Gaffer was recognized as the leading authority by all in the neighbourhood (including himself ). ‘But what about this Frodo that lives with him?’ asked Old Noakes of Bywater. ‘Baggins is his name, but he’s more than half a Brandybuck, they say. It beats me why any Baggins of Hobbiton should go looking for a wife away there in Buckland, where folks are so queer.’ ‘And no wonder they’re queer,’ put in Daddy Twofoot (the Gaffer’s next-door neighbour), ‘if they live on the wrong side of the Brandywine River, and right agin the Old Forest. That’s a dark bad place, if half the tales be true.’ ‘You’re right, Dad!’ said the Gaffer. ‘Not that the Brandybucks of Buckland live in the Old Forest; but they’re a queer breed, seemingly. They fool about with boats on that big river - and that isn’t natural. Small wonder that trouble came of it, I say. But be that as it may, Mr. Frodo is as nice a young hobbit as you could wish to meet. Very much like Mr. Bilbo, and in more than looks. After all his father was a Baggins. A decent respectable hobbit was Mr. Drogo Baggins; there was never much to tell of him, till he was drownded.’ ‘Drownded?’ said several voices. They had heard this and other darker rumours before, of course; but hobbits have a passion for family history, and they were ready to hear it again.
