Composition

This major is offered on the thesis/recital option only, and requires a minimum of 35 semester hours. A minimum of 15 semester hours of 200/6000-level course work is required.

Required:

  Graduate Music Core:

    Music Theory: 580:210; 580:211.....6 hours

    Music History and Musicology: 590:222.....3 hours

    One course from the following - 590:110, 590:111, 590:112, 590:114, 590:115.....3 hours

  Specialization:

    Applied Music: 540:254.....12 hours

    Music electives: 11 hours, primarily in the areas of music literature and theory.....11 hours

  Recital: 540:288.....0 hours

35 hours

Additional Requirements: 

1. Performance recital of candidate-generated compositions.

2. Recital abstract.