Music: Performance: Strings, MM

The Music: Performance: Strings, 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.

Choose one · 8 credits

String instrument applied study

2 semesters at 4 credits, in the course for the major instrument. Applied lessons are repeatable: the credits are reached over several terms, and a single course here stands for all of them.

MUSPERF-531MASTERS LEVEL-VIOLIN4
MUSPERF-533MASTERS LEVEL-VIOLA4
MUSPERF-535MASTERS LEVEL-CELLO4
MUSPERF-537MASTER'S LEVEL DOUBLE BASS4

Required · 4 credits

Recital

In place of applied study in the recital semester.

MUSPERF-990MASTERS RECITAL1-4

Choose two · 4 credits

Ensemble

4 credits from the two, at least 2 of them in the Symphony Orchestra.

MUSIC-570UNIVERSITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA1
MUSIC-569ADVANCED ENSEMBLE-STRING1

Choose one · 2 credits

Pedagogy

2 credits; MUSIC 540 for instrumental pedagogy, DANCE 560 as Feldenkrais for Performing Musicians.

MUSIC-543ADVANCED STRING PEDAGOGY2
MUSIC-544ADVANCED STRING PEDAGOGY2
MUSIC-540ADVANCED PEDAGOGY2
DANCE-560CURRENT TOPICS IN DANCE: WORKSHOP1-3

Choose one · 2 credits

Literature

MUSIC-546STRING LITERATURE2
MUSIC-796SEMINAR IN DUO SONATA LITERATURE3

Choose three · 9 credits

Musicology and music theory

At least one course in musicology and one in music theory, from the approved lists; 9 credits, earned at UW-Madison. 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-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
MUSIC-523ORCHESTRATION I3
MUSIC-621RENAISSANCE POLYPHONY3
MUSIC-622BAROQUE COUNTERPOINT3
MUSIC-623FORM AND ANALYSIS2-3
MUSIC-624FORM AND ANALYSIS II2-3
MUSIC-629JAZZ THEORY AND ANALYSIS3
MUSIC-921CURRENT ISSUES IN MUSICAL THOUGHT 13
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.