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 creditsComprehensive 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 creditsMusicology 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 creditsFinal project
4 credits.
- CURRIC-790MASTER'S PROJECT OR THESIS1-9
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