Music: Performance: Composition, MM

The Music: Performance: Composition, MM: what it asks for, in what order, and who teaches it. This guide was started from the catalog; its own introduction is still to be written.

The map: what comes before what Every program

34credits in the major

The degree

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What the degree asks for, group by group. The map sets out every course by how many must come before it; open a course there to see what it needs and what it opens.

Required · 9 credits

Composition applied study

Three semesters at least, 3 credits each. Applied study is repeatable: the credits are reached over several terms, and a single course here stands for all of them.

MUSPERF-547MASTERS LEVEL COMPOSITION3

Required · 3 credits

Thesis (composition project)

In the final semester, after three semesters of composition study; with the Composition Master Class.

MUSIC-990MASTERS THESIS1-4

Choose two · 6 credits

Musicology

6 credits from the approved list.

MUSIC-411SURVEY OF MUSIC IN THE MIDDLE AGES3
MUSIC-412SURVEY OF MUSIC IN THE RENAISSANCE3
MUSIC-413SURVEY OF MUSIC IN THE BAROQUE ERA3
MUSIC-414SURVEY OF MUSIC IN THE CLASSIC ERA3
MUSIC-415SURVEY OF MUSIC IN THE ROMANTIC ERA3
MUSIC-416SURVEY OF MUSIC IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY3
MUSIC-419MUSIC IN THE UNITED STATES3
MUSIC-497SPECIAL TOPICS IN MUSIC1-3
MUSIC-511HISTORICAL PERFORMANCE PRACTICES3
MUSIC-513SURVEY OF OPERA3
MUSIC-515PROSEMINAR IN ETHNOMUSICOLOGY3
MUSIC-516ETHNOGRAPHIC METHODS FOR MUSIC AND SOUND3
MUSIC-821HISTORICAL MUSIC THEORIES 13
MUSIC-822HISTORICAL MUSIC THEORIES 23
MUSIC-911SEMINAR IN MUSICOLOGY3
MUSIC-915SEMINAR IN ETHNOMUSICOLOGY3

Choose two · 6 credits

Music theory

6 credits from the approved list. The Guide also lists MUSIC 823, which has no page among its courses, so it is not drawn.

MUSIC-497SPECIAL TOPICS IN MUSIC1-3
MUSIC-621RENAISSANCE POLYPHONY3
MUSIC-622BAROQUE COUNTERPOINT3
MUSIC-623FORM AND ANALYSIS2-3
MUSIC-624FORM AND ANALYSIS II2-3
MUSIC-629JAZZ THEORY AND ANALYSIS3
MUSIC-821HISTORICAL MUSIC THEORIES 13
MUSIC-822HISTORICAL MUSIC THEORIES 23
MUSIC-921CURRENT ISSUES IN MUSICAL THOUGHT 13

Choose two · 10 credits

Composition electives

10 credits: orchestration and the composition seminar (a topics course, repeatable), or other composition-related courses numbered 300 or above with the major professor's approval.

MUSIC-523ORCHESTRATION I3
MUSIC-927SEMINAR IN COMPOSITION3

Meet your instructors

Everyone teaching a course in this degree this term, by the part of the degree they teach in. Expand an area to see who is in it; someone teaching in two areas appears in both, with that area’s courses on each card. A Full-time band on a photo means that instructor is full-time faculty. Every email here works; use it.