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Composition, D.M.A.

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Degree Requirements

Course List
Code Title Hours
One semester of electronic music and 2 of counterpoint or equivalent, if not taken in previous study.
Composition18
MUSC 660S
Composition (Repeated; at least 3 credits must be in electronic music)
Music History and Literature9
Select from the following including at least one doctoral level seminar.
MUSC 470A
Topics in Popular Music
MUSC 470B
Topics in the Study of Western Art Music
MUSC 470C
Topics in the History of Jazz
MUSC 470D
Topics in Music of Sub-Saharan Africa
MUSC 470E
Topics in Musics of the Americas
MUSC 470F
Topics in Musics of East Asia
MUSC 470G
Topics in Musics of South Asia
MUSC 470H
Topics in Gender and Sexuality in Music
MUSC 470I
Topics in Race and Ethnicity in Music
MUSC 470J
Topics in Musics of the Arab World
MUSC 477
Music of Africa
MUSC 593
Special Topics
MUSC 670
Perspectives of Musicology and Ethnomusicology
MUSC 731
Keyboard Literature *
MUSC 793
Special Topics
MUSC 795
Independent Study
MUSC 796
Graduate Seminar
Music Theory12
MUSC 762
Pedagogy of Theory
MUSC 764
Compositional Techniques in Contemporary Music
MUSC 690
Teaching Practicum
One additional course selected from the following:
MUSC 463
Analysis of Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Music
MUSC 761
Theory Topics
MUSC 763
Analytical Techniques
MUSC 765
Transcription and Arranging
MUSC 771Music Research and Bibliography3
Research/Recitals20
MUSC 788
Doctoral Recital (May be repeated -- 8-12 hours)
MUSC 797
Research (major composition project -- 4-8 hours)
MUSC 797
Research (research document -- 2-6 hours)
Qualifying Examination, which includes both written and oral components
Final Oral Examination
Total Hours62
*

MUSC 731 Keyboard Literature is open to Keyboard Majors only.

Major Learning Outcomes

Composition

Students who earn graduate degrees in Composition will develop:

  • Advanced competencies in composition.
  • Knowledge and skills in one or more fields of music outside the major such as history and literature, theory and analysis, musicology and ethnomusicology, performance, and pedagogy.
  • Collaborative Piano
  • Composition
    • Composition, M.M.
    • Composition, D.M.A.
  • Conducting
  • Jazz Pedagogy
  • Music Education
  • Music Business and Industry
  • Music Theory
  • Musicology
  • Performance
  • Piano Pedagogy

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