Music, MMUS, Performance 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.

Performance - Complete thirty-four (34) hours of Music as follows: six (6) hours of music theory (to include MUS 6610  and MUS 6620 ), six (6) hours of music history and literature (to include MUS 6410 ), MUS 5550 , nine (9) hours of 6000-level applied music, four (4) hours of ensembles, Applied Music graduate recital (MUSA 6500 ), and three (3) hours of Music electives. No more than four (4) hours of ensemble will considered within the degree plan.