• Introduction to Graduate Study in Music (MUS:5300), 3 semester hours

Students exempt from MUS:5200 through the advisory examination in music theory must complete 6 s.h. from the following:

• Spectral Nature of Sound (MUS:3280), 3 semester hours
• Counterpoint before 1600 (MUS:4200), 3 semester hours
• Counterpoint after 1600 (MUS:4201), 3 semester hours
• Jazz Theory (MUS:4730), 3 semester hours 
• Tonal Analysis (MUS:5235), 3 semester hours
• Non-Tonal Analysis (MUS:5236), 3 semester hours
• Analysis of Popular Music (MUS:5237(, 3 semester hours
• Special Topics in Theory and Analysis  (MUS:5240), 3 semester hours
• Theoretical Approaches to Music (MUS:6211), 3 semester hours 
• Theory Pedagogy (MUS:6215), 3 semester hours

Select from the musicology courses in the following list. 

• MUS:4320 Music and Gender (3 s.h.)
• MUS:4330 Early Music (3 s.h.)
• MUS:4335 18th-Century Music (3 s.h.)
• MUS:4340 19th-Century Music (3 s.h.)
• MUS:4345 20th-Century Music (3 s.h.) 2/22
• MUS:4350 Advanced Jazz History (3 s.h.)
• MUS:4355 American Music (3 s.h.)
• MUS:4360 Jazz Matters (3 s.h.)
• MUS:4610 Studies in Film and Music (3 s.h.)
• MUS:6305 Teaching Music History and Culture (3 s.h.)
• MUS:6310 Topics in Musicology (3 s.h.) (repeatable)
• MUS:6312 Historical Approaches to Music (3 s.h.)
• MUS:6314 Topics in Ethnomusicology (3 s.h.)
• MUS:6315 Foundations of Ethnomusicology (3 s.h.)
• MUS:6375 Music Editing (3 s.h.)

• Major Ensemble – four semesters required, 1 s.h. each

• MUS:6020 Graduate voice lessons – four semesters required, 2 s.h. each (8 s.h.)
  Applied lessons are taken each semester until the recital requirement is completed; requests for exceptions must be approved by the voice area.
• MUS:5510 Graduate Diction (2 s.h.) (Spring)
• MUS:6520 Methods of Teaching Voice (3 s.h.)* (Spring)
• MUS:6900 M.A. Recital (1-2 s.h.)

One semester from the following:

• MUS:6541 Survey of Song Literature I (3 s.h.) (Fall – odd numbered years)
• MUS:6542 Survey of Song Literature II (3 s.h.) (Fall – even numbered years)

One course from the following:

• MUS:3500 Opera Workshop (2 s.h.)
• MUS:3502 Opera Production (2-4 s.h.)
• MUS:3530 Musical Theatre Workshop (2 s.h.)

Not required, but highly recommended:

• MUS:3851 Intro to the Alexander Technique (3 s.h.)
• MUS:3850 Intro to Laban Movement Studies (2-3 s.h.)
• MUS:6530 Topics in Vocal Performance (may be repeated 2 times, 2 s.h./semester) (Spring)
• MUS:6540 Survey of Operatic Literature (3 s.h.) (Spring – odd numbered years)
• MUS:3503 Vocal/Operatic Coaching (1 s.h.) (repeatable: 1 semester may be applied to degree)

*All TAs must complete the course Methods of Teaching Voice by the end of their first year on campus.

The student must have successfully completed at least one year (two semesters) of college level language study in two of the three major singing languages (French, German and Italian) prior to taking comprehensive exams.

Students may verify proficiency in any or all of these languages through:

• the undergraduate language placement WebCAPE online French or German exams offered by UI Exam Services, or arranging individual placement testing of Italian proficiency through the Division of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures - Italian
• a transcript verifying courses taken within the 6 years prior to the comprehensive exams with a resulting letter grade of B or better