A core-course in two semesters for all year-one music major students. Those who are interested in writing research paper in music are also welcome. In the first semester, we'll be exploring about the what, why and how of music research, in the second, further detailed practice of the craft of thesis writing. We'll be doing a lot of thinking, reading, talking and writing, in and out of the classroom. An important companion throughout our journey will be the computer and the Internet. Our aim is to train ourself to be a modern-day musician-scholar, who can make music and make sense of music cleverly and critically. Concrete "product" at the end of the semester will be a mini-conference and if possible, an anthology of selected written work. Reading assignments for composers and musicologists will cover a broad range of topics such as composition, opera, popular music, music theory and technology.