Division of Music
Master of Arts Degree [M.A.] in Music
The Master of Arts degree in music provides the graduate student with advanced training and performance opportunities in his proficiency. The student receives further training in particular periods of music history and in form, style, and techniques in musical literature for piano, voice, choral, or orchestral settings.
Residence Requirements
Preterm/Fall/Spring/Summer/Fall/Spring: A minimum of 21 months of residence work beginning with a Preterm session (August 24-September 4, 2009) is required. A public recital must be given before graduate work is completed.
Admission Requirements
See General Admission Requirements. Graduate applicants must have majored in music on the undergraduate level. Music applicants must audition in person. Those living beyond 400 miles from Pensacola may submit a high-quality video recording. Entrance examinations in music history and in music theory (sight singing, dictation, part writing and harmonic analysis, and form and analysis) are required. Applicants who do not earn a satisfactory score on an exam must take a review course in the appropriate area with no graduate credit.
Candidacy
See Candidacy.
Graduation Requirements
See Graduation Requirements. Students must earn at least a “B” in private lessons.
Music Proficiencies
All music graduate students must demonstrate basic keyboard proficiency before completing the degree program. Students may either take the Piano Proficiency Examination or opt for one year of piano.
Two credits of private music instruction are required for each of three semesters. Music instruction is available in voice, piano, strings, brass, woodwinds, percussion, and choral conducting. MU 656 includes private music instruction. Ensemble credit includes Chamber Ensemble, Madrigal Singers, Orchestra, Symphonic Band, or piano accompaniment for a college performing group. Students with piano proficiency will take PI 505 Graduate Hymnplaying and only three ensemble credits.
Course Requirements
| Music | Hours |
|---|---|
| MU 511 Graduate Resource Technique | 2 |
| MU 512 Advanced Music Theory | 3 |
| MU 513 Analytic Technique | 3 |
| MU 527 Electronic Application in Arranging | 2 |
| MU 528 Electronic Application in Orchestration | 2 |
| MU 531-532 Graduate Music History Survey | 4 |
| MU 559 Advanced Choral Conducting | 2 |
| MU 654 Graduate Recital Preparation | 1 |
| MU 656 Graduate Recital-Music | 1 |
| Music Literature | 3 |
| __ 651-653 Private Music Instruction (2 hrs. each) | 6 |
| Ensemble | 4 |
Total Hours |
33 |
Music Course Offerings Summer 2009
| June 23-July 3 | ||
| MU | 531 | Graduate Music History Survey |
| June 23-July 22 | ||
| MU | 512 | Advanced Music Theory |
| July 6-17 | ||
| MU | 527 | Electronic Application in Arranging |
| July 20-August 7* (Class also meets Sat., Aug. 1.) | ||
| MU | 532 | Graduate Music History Survey |
| July 23-August 7* | ||
| MU | 513 | Analytic Technique |
| *Students are required to attend Commencement, July 30, 8 p.m. | ||
