Degree Requirements
| Performance: Piano (four semesters at four credit hours each) | 16 | |
| Performance: Piano | ||
| MUSC 771 | Music Research and Bibliography | 3 |
| Music History and Literature | ||
| Select from the following including at least one doctoral level seminar: | 9 | |
| Topics in Popular Music | ||
| Topics in the Study of Western Art Music | ||
| Topics in the History of Jazz | ||
| Topics in Music of Sub-Saharan Africa | ||
| Topics in Musics of the Americas | ||
| Topics in Musics of East Asia | ||
| Topics in Musics of South Asia | ||
| Topics in Gender and Sexuality in Music | ||
| Topics in Race and Ethnicity in Music | ||
| Topics in Musics of the Arab World | ||
| Music of Africa | ||
| Special Topics | ||
| Perspectives of Musicology and Ethnomusicology | ||
| Keyboard Literature | ||
| Special Topics | ||
| Independent Study | ||
MUSC 796 | Graduate Seminar | |
| Music Theory | 6 | |
| Select from the following including at least one doctoral level seminar: | ||
| Upper Division Composition | ||
| Counterpoint | ||
| Counterpoint | ||
| Analysis of Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Music | ||
| Analysis of Twentieth Century Art Music | ||
| Electronic Music | ||
| Electronic Music-Digital Audio | ||
| Jazz and Commercial Music Harmony | ||
| Theory Topics | ||
| Pedagogy of Theory | ||
| Compositional Techniques in Contemporary Music | ||
| Analytical Techniques | ||
| Recitals/Research | 20 | |
| Doctoral Recital (Minimum of 12 credits required) | ||
| Research (Minimum of 2 credits required) | ||
| Master Class in Applied Repertoire | 6 | |
| Master Class in Applied Repertoire: Keyboard (Repeated) | ||
| Written Qualifying Examination | ||
| Comprehensive Oral Qualifying Examination | ||
| Final Oral Examination of Research and Performance of Final Recital | ||
| Total Hours | 60 | |
Major Learning Outcomes
Collaborative Piano
Students who earn graduate degrees in Collaborative Piano will develop:
- Advanced competencies in vocal and/or instrumental collaboration.
- Knowledge and skills in one or more fields of music outside the major such as theory, history, musicology, ethnomusicology, and performance.
- Knowledge of repertory and historical performance practices.
- Language diction competencies.
- Competencies in chamber music.