Graduate Specializations
Sabrina Madison-Cannon, Dean
541-346-3761
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121 MarAbel B. Frohnmayer Music Building
1225 University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon 97403-1225
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| MUS 521 | The Collaborative Pianist | 2 |
| MUS 522 | The Collaborative Pianist | 2 |
| MUS 523 | The Collaborative Pianist | 2 |
| MUP 650 | Music Performance Studies | 2 |
| MUP 650 | Music Performance Studies | 2 |
| MUP 650 | Music Performance Studies | 2 |
| MUS 567 | Solo Vocal Music | 3 |
| MUS 568 | Solo Vocal Music | 3 |
| Total Credits | 18 | |
Two Chamber Music Recitals
Year One: A 45-60 minute chamber music/art-song recital.
Year Two: A 45-60 minute chamber music/art-song recital.
This specialization is available to all MM Piano Performance, MM Piano Pedagogy, & DMA Piano Performance Majors. Exceptions may be made with permission of the UO SOMD Director of Collaborative Piano
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Choose 1 of the following (total 3 credits): | ||
| MUS 660 | Music in the Middle Ages | 3 |
| MUS 661 | Music in the Renaissance | 3 |
| MUS 662 | Music in the Baroque Era | 3 |
| MUS 663 | Music in the Classical Period | 3 |
| Choose 2 of the following (total 6 credits): | ||
| MUS 680–682 | Historical Performance Practices I-III | 9 |
| The following required courses: | ||
| MUS 683: Rhetoric & Music (currently a MUS607 recurring seminar; course change has been submitted to UOCC for approval) | 4 | |
| MUS 684: Musical Iconography (currently a MUS607 recurring seminar; course change has been submitted to UOCC for approval) | 4 | |
| MUS 691 | Collegium Musicum | 1 |
| Total Credits | 18 | |
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| MUJ 540 | Jazz Pedagogy Practicum | 3 |
| MUJ 661 | Jazz Program Planning and Development | 3 |
| MUP 635 | Music Performance Studies: [Topic] (Three terms required/2 credits each term) | 2 |
| MUP 635 | Music Performance Studies: [Topic] | 2 |
| MUP 635 | Music Performance Studies: [Topic] | 2 |
| Ensemble Requirements, to be chosen from list | 3 | |
| Jazz Laboratory Band III | ||
| Jazz Laboratory Band II | ||
| Oregon Jazz Ensemble | ||
| Small Jazz Ensemble: [Topic] | ||
| Chamber Ensemble: [Topic] (Jazz Guitar) | ||
| Chamber Ensemble: [Topic] (Latin Jazz) | ||
| MUE 615 | Jazz Practicum (This is the proposed Practicum regularization, which will replace MUE 609) | 1 |
| Total Credits | 16 | |
In addition, students must pass a skills exam testing jazz/commercial music theory and keyboard skills.
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| MUE 639 | Pedagogy and Practicum: [Topic] (Music Theory Pedagogy) | 3 |
| MUS 530 | Tonal Analysis: Linear Prolongational Analysis (Course title is changing to: Tonal Analysis: Linear/Prolongational Analysis) | 3 |
| MUS 516 | Post-Tonal Theory I | 3 |
| MUS 615 | Current Trends in Music Theory | 3 |
| MUS 607 | Seminar: [Topic] (MUS 607 is in the process of being regularized. The new number of the course is MUS 670.) | 4 |
| Students must also pass a skills exam testing aural musicianship and keyboard skills | ||
The Graduate Specialization in Violin/Viola Pedagogy will provide violin and viola students in the MM Performance and DMA Performance degrees the opportunity to pursue a cognate in the pedagogy field.
Graduate Specialization in Violin/Viola Pedagogy
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| MUE 564 | Advanced Violin/Viola Pedagogy | 2 |
| MUE 565 | Somatics for String Players | 1 |
| MUE 563 | Pedagogy Methods: Violin and Viola | 2 |
| MUE 639 | Pedagogy and Practicum: [Topic] | 3 |
| MUE 507 | Seminar: [Topic] | 3 |
| MUS 694 | Chamber Ensemble: [Topic] | 2 |
| Minimum Required Credits: | 16 | |
| Select 1 course from the following: | 3 | |
| Music in Special Education | ||
| Suzuki Pedagogy I (Suzuki Ped I) | ||
| Music for Early Childhood | ||