Music, MMUS, Instrumental Conducting Concentration

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Purposes

The purposes of the music program within the Department of Music and Performing Arts is to:

1. Provide professional preparation in music and teaching.
2. Provide a center of art, scholarship, and research.

Admission Requirements

For admission to the Master of Music degree program, the applicant must:

1. Meet all University admission requirements.
2. Demonstrate, by examination, skills and capacities in the following fields:
   1. Theory-written, aural, and keyboard skills, including proficiency in sight singing and in melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic dictation.
   2. The history and literature of music and the study of musical form.
   3. The ability to play piano accompaniments and scores as needed in the work to be pursued.
   4. Evidence of sufficient technical preparation and musicianship to satisfy demands of graduate studies in the fields of applied music. For singers, technical preparation includes diction.
3. Have a Bachelor of Music, Bachelor of Music Education, Bachelor of Arts in Music, or a Bachelor of Science in Music degree.
4. Have performed a Senior Recital to be admitted to the Master of Music in Performance degree program.

Requirements for Degree

The Master of Music degree is granted with concentrations in music theory, performance, instrumental conducting, and choral conducting.

Each graduate student is required to enroll in a major ensemble during each semester of full-time registration, and each graduate performance major is required to enroll in the appropriate applied music course during each semester of full-time registration, as per the “Ensemble Experience Requirements” policy detailed in the Department of Music and Performing Arts  section of the Catalog.

Instrumental Conducting - Complete thirty-four (34) hours of music as follows: Twelve (12) hours of instrumental conducting, score-reading, and wind band literature (to include MUS 6500 , MUS 6520 , MUS 6540 , and MUS 6560 ), MUS 6610 , MUS 6410 , MUS 5550 , and MUS 6420  (a major project and paper related to the graduate recital), four (4) hours of ensembles, MUSA 6500 , and three (3) hours of music electives. No more than four (4) hours of ensemble will be considered within the degree plan.