Degree Requirements
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Conducting | 22 | |
| Performance: Conducting (four semesters at four credit hours each, total 16 credit hours) | ||
| Conducting (two semesters at three credit hours each, total of 6 credit hours) | ||
| MUSC 771 | Music Research and Bibliography | 3 |
| MUSC 670 | Perspectives of Musicology and Ethnomusicology (or another graduate level Music History course as determined by graduate entrance examination) | 3 |
| Select one survey course from the following in the secondary area or a Music History course | 3 | |
| Survey of Orchestral Music | ||
| Survey of Wind Music | ||
| Survey of Vocal Music | ||
| Music History | 3 | |
| Select one of the following: | ||
| Keyboard Literature (*) | ||
| Special Topics | ||
| Independent Study | ||
MUSC 796 | Graduate Seminar | |
| Music Theory | 6 | |
| Selected from one of the following with at least one doctoral level seminar: | ||
| Upper Division Composition | ||
| Counterpoint, 16th Century | ||
| Counterpoint, 18th Century | ||
| Analysis of Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Music | ||
| Compositional Techniques in Contemporary Music | ||
| Electronic Music | ||
| Techniques for Electronic Music Performance | ||
| Jazz and Commercial Music Harmony | ||
| Theory Topics | ||
| Pedagogy of Theory | ||
| Analytical Techniques | ||
| Compositional Techniques in Contemporary Music | ||
| Recitals/Research | 20 | |
| Doctoral Recital (Minimum of 12 credits required) | ||
| Research (Minimum of 2 credits required) | ||
| Written Qualifying Examination | ||
| Final Oral Examination of Research and Performance of Final Recital | ||
| Total Hours | 60 | |
- *
MUSC 731 Keyboard Literature is open to Keyboard Majors only.
Major Learning Outcomes
Conducting
Students who earn graduate degrees in Conducting will develop:
- Advanced knowledge in major field of study (wind band, choral, or orchestra) and competencies in the other two areas
- Advanced competencies in conducting, score study, and rehearsal techniques
- Advanced knowledge of repertoire
- 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.