Music, Performance Track: Collaborative Piano Concentration, M.M.

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The performance track in the Master of Music is designed to provide intense training for students interested in attaining professional-level skills and background in performing. Students may pursue performance studies in one of five concentrations: keyboard, collaborative piano, voice, pedagogy or instrumental (strings, wind instruments or percussion). Students entering these programs should have substantial undergraduate training in their area of performance.

Requirements (11 hours)

In addition to meeting general degree requirements shown elsewhere in this bulletin, a music major must complete the following school requirements:

Theory

All graduate students must take the graduate placement exam in music theory before registering for their first term of classes. Students who pass are eligible to register for graduate-level theory coursework. Students who do not pass the placement exam must enroll in MTC 401 - Theory Review and successfully complete the course with at least a B before registering in graduate-level theory courses.

Students are encouraged to enroll in as early as possible in their course of study, preferably as their first theory course. MTC 561 is a prerequisite to .

All students take:

MTC 561 - Introduction to Graduate Music Theory Credit(s): 2

and 2 hours from the following:

MTC 562 - Theory Pedagogy Credit(s): 2
MTC 563 - Scoring and Arranging Credit(s): 2 (if not taken as an undergraduate)
MTC 564 - Post-Tonal Analysis Credit(s): 2
Credit(s):

Concentration Requirements

(36-hour program)

Note

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