USC University of Southern California Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television

Steve Juliani

MUCO 443

An introduction to the professional standard of music preparation in Los Angeles. The primary focus of the course is to aid students in the preparation of scores and parts for their scoring sessions. The main program is Finale. Students will learn how to create scores that are well prepared for part extraction and how to create extracted parts that meet a professional standard.

MUCO 443 is another team-taught course in the SMPTV program. Both 443a (fall) and 443b (spring) are 15 weeks each. The overall structure changes from fall to spring. In the fall, Pete Anthony (orchestration), Steve Juliani (music preparation) and Christopher Young (composition) teach for 5 weeks each. In the spring, Pete Anthony and Brad Dechter cover orchestration for 11 weeks and Steve Juliani finishes out the final 4 weeks with another phase of music preparation.