21.   It is not focused on training musicians, nor is it housed in a music department where students typically study music theory and composition.

22.   Joseph N. Straus, a professor of music theory at Queen College, has an answer.

23.   Lessons in music theory, arrangements and recording came in handy when the friends began playing together as Starsailor.

24.   Music instruction has vaulted into the future with software that teaches basic music theory and technique in a form with which both children and adult beginners are comfortable.

25.   Robert Dunn, who died in July, had studied music theory with John Cage and was a liberating influence.

26.   She also tried to divert her creativity into graphics, musicology and music theory, but Ms. Saariaho eventually felt fated to become a composer.

27.   Takemitsu never studied music theory and was mostly self-taught apart from one private lesson with Olivier Messiaen.

28.   They will also be given group lessons in singing and music theory, and be required to give recitals regularly.

29.   He was reared in Paris where he studied piano at the Paris Conservatory with Isidor Philipp and music theory and composition with Nadia Boulanger.

30.   They learn music theory online, then go to a designated campus for piano or guitar lessons.