Master of Music in Performance: Piano, M.M. (30 sem. hrs.)

The Master of Music in Piano Performance is designed for the student possessing an undergraduate degree in piano performance. The program encompasses the study and performance of advanced literature.

Audition requirements: Four memorized pieces to include one baroque work (i.e. Prelude and Fugue of J.S. Bach), a sonata from the Classical period, a work from the Romantic period, and either an Impressionist or Twentieth-Century work.

Core Courses (9 sem. hrs.)

MUS 6530 Music Research and Writing

Choose one of the following:

MUS 6509 Projects in Applied Theory and Analysis

MUS 6558 Schenkerian Analysis

Choose one of the following:

MUS 6555 History of American Music

MUS 6514 Topics in Music History I

MUS 6515 Topics in Music History II

MUS 6556 Comparative Arts

Literature and Pedagogy (6 sem. hrs.)

MUS 6553 Seminar in Piano Literature

MUS 6527 Graduate Piano Pedagogy I

MUS 6539 Practicum in Piano Pedagogy

Performance (15 sem. hrs.)

MUS 6500 Graduate Recital

MUS 6521 Applied Piano

Total: 30 sem. hrs.

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