Instrumental Performance Concentration

Program CIP Code

Concentration Requirements

• MUS 5000 - Research in Music 3
• MUS 5930 - Graduate Recital 2

• * Applied Instruction, Primary Performance Area 8

  * MUS Electives (preferably Ensembles) 2

  *Additional elective credit in Individual Instruction and Ensemble may not exceed three hours.

• Complete one Pedagogy Class, Primary Performance Area 3

• MUS 5270 - Vocal Pedagogy 3
• MUS 5290 - Guitar Pedagogy 3
• MUS 5280 - Piano Pedagogy 3
• MUS 5505 - Instrumental Pedagogy 3

Concentration Guided Electives

• MUS 5060 - Graduate Music Analysis 1 3
• MUS 5070 - Graduate Music Analysis 2 3
• MUS 5110 - Applied Composition G 3
• MUS 5310 - Survey of Piano Literature 3
• MUS 5320 - Guitar Literature 3
• MUS 5330 - Music Before 1750 3
• MUS 5340 - Music from 1750 to 1900 3
• MUS 5350 - Music after 1900 3
• MUS 5370 - Art Song Literature 3
• MUS 5390 - Choral Literature 3
• MUS 5420 - Symphonic Literature 3
• MUS 5430 - Chamber Music Literature 3
• MUS 5450 - Opera Literature 3
• MUS 5460 - Music of Many Cultures 3
• MUS 5550 - Music for the Band 3
• MUS 5800 - Advanced Conducting 3
• MUS 5810 - Orchestration 3

• Complete five (5) hours from:

• MUS 5010 - Directed Studies in Music 3
• MUS 5020 - Directed Studies in Music 3
• MUS 5040 - Graduate Music Theory Review 3
• MUS 5050 - Contemporary Issues in Music Education 3
• MUS 5140 - Marching Band Techniques 3
• MUS 5160 - Technology in the Music Classroom 3
• MUS 5215 - Music Pedagogy in Practice 3
• MUS 5260 - Instrumental Methods 3
• MUS 5270 - Vocal Pedagogy 3
• MUS 5280 - Piano Pedagogy 3
• MUS 5380 - Choral Methods 3
• MUS 5522 - Italian Diction for Singers 1
• MUS 5524 - French Diction for Singers 1
• MUS 5523 - German Diction for Singers 1
• MUS 5525 - Latin/English Diction for Singers 1

• Additional Pedagogy course(s) from concentration requirements.

  Courses from the preceding list may also count in this area.

  A maximum of three hours from disciplines other than music and humanities may be taken with graduate committee approval.    

Total Program Hours 32