Music: Music Theory, MA

The Music: Music Theory, MA: 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

30credits in the major

The degree

See it on the map

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 four · 12 credits

Music theory and composition

12 credits from the list; the Guide recommends its first four (MUSIC 821, 822, 823, 621). Other courses only with the music theory faculty's approval. The Guide also lists MUSIC 823, which has no page among its courses, so it is not drawn.

MUSIC-821HISTORICAL MUSIC THEORIES 13
MUSIC-822HISTORICAL MUSIC THEORIES 23
MUSIC-621RENAISSANCE POLYPHONY3
MUSIC-622BAROQUE COUNTERPOINT3
MUSIC-623FORM AND ANALYSIS2-3
MUSIC-624FORM AND ANALYSIS II2-3
MUSIC-921CURRENT ISSUES IN MUSICAL THOUGHT 13
MUSIC-927SEMINAR IN COMPOSITION3

Required · 3 credits

Reference and research materials

MUSIC-619MUSIC RESEARCH METHODS AND MATERIALS3

Choose two · 6 credits

Musicology and literature

6 credits from the list. Other courses only with the musicology and music theory faculty's approval.

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-511HISTORICAL PERFORMANCE PRACTICES3
MUSIC-513SURVEY OF OPERA3
MUSIC-515PROSEMINAR IN ETHNOMUSICOLOGY3
MUSIC-516ETHNOGRAPHIC METHODS FOR MUSIC AND SOUND3
MUSIC-911SEMINAR IN MUSICOLOGY3
MUSIC-915SEMINAR IN ETHNOMUSICOLOGY3

Required · 4 credits

Thesis

4 credits.

MUSIC-990MASTERS THESIS1-4

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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.