1. University of Wisconsin–Madison
  2. Music: Education, MM

Student guide

Music: Education, MM

The Music: Education, 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.

  • 34credits in the major

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.

Choose three · 9 credits

Comprehensive music education

MUSIC 945 and two more from the list; MUSIC 799 or MUSIC 497, among others, with the major professor's consent.

  • MUSIC-945HUMAN SUBJECTS RESEARCH IN MUSIC3
  • MUSIC-944THINKING WITH SOCIAL THEORY IN MUSIC EDUCATION3
  • MUSIC-946PAST PERSPECTIVES ON MUSIC EDUCATION3
  • MUSIC-948CULTURES OF IMPROVISATION3
  • CURRIC-947CURRENT ISSUES IN MUSIC EDUCATION3
Choose three · 9 credits

Musicology and music theory

One course in musicology and one in music theory; the third either. From the list published each semester, taken at UW-Madison (no transfers). The Guide also lists MUSIC 823, which has no page among its courses, so it is not drawn.

  • MUSIC-405SEMINAR: CULTURAL STUDY OF MUSIC3
  • 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-418MUSIC AND THE CITY3
  • MUSIC-423CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN POPULAR MUSIC STUDIES3
  • 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
  • MUSIC-621RENAISSANCE POLYPHONY3
  • MUSIC-622BAROQUE COUNTERPOINT3
  • MUSIC-623FORM AND ANALYSIS2-3
  • MUSIC-624FORM AND ANALYSIS II2-3
  • MUSIC-523ORCHESTRATION I3
  • MUSIC-921CURRENT ISSUES IN MUSICAL THOUGHT 13
  • MUSIC-927SEMINAR IN COMPOSITION3
Required · 4 credits

Final project

4 credits.

  • CURRIC-790MASTER'S PROJECT OR THESIS1-9

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.