Program Overview

The Master of Music program offers a comprehensive range of courses in applied music, music education, and music theory, enabling students to enhance their skills in performance, pedagogy, and research. Students can specialize in their chosen instrument or voice, delve into music history and literature, or explore innovative teaching methodologies. The program culminates in a final project or thesis, demonstrating students' advanced knowledge and proficiency in their field.

Program Outline

Outline:

• MUS 815A APPLIED BASSOON (1-3 credits)
• Individual weekly instruction on bassoon.
• Students work with the instructor to schedule lessons for one credit hour (non-majors) or two credit hours (music majors).
• Students are evaluated at each lesson on their musical and technical progress.
• A lab fee is required.
Music majors must attend the weekly masterclass.
• MUS 815B APPLIED CELLO (1-3 credits)
• Individual weekly instruction on cello.
• Students work with the instructor to schedule lessons for 1-3 credits.
• Students are evaluated at each lesson on their musical and technical progress.
• A lab fee is required.
• MUS 815C APPLIED CLARINET (1-3 credits)
• Individual weekly instruction on clarinet.
• Students work with the instructor to schedule lessons for one credit hour (non-majors) or two credit hours (music majors).
• Students are evaluated at each lesson on their musical and technical progress.
• A lab fee is required.
Music majors must attend the weekly masterclass.
• MUS 815D APPLIED DOUBLE BASS (1-3 credits)
• Private study of the double bass at the university graduate level.
• Individual weekly instruction on double bass.
• Students work with the instructor to schedule lessons for one to three credit hours.
• Students are evaluated at each lesson on their musical and technical progress.
• A lab fee is required.
• Prerequisite(s): An audition is required of all students registering for three hours of study and declaring bass as their major instrument.
Not open to non-degree graduate students.
• MUS 815E APPLIED EUPHONIUM (1-3 credits)
• Individual weekly instruction on euphonium.
• Students work with the instructor to schedule lessons for one credit hour (non-majors) or two credit hours (music majors).
• Students are evaluated at each lesson on their musical and technical progress.
• A lab fee is required.
Music majors must attend the weekly masterclass.
• MUS 815F APPLIED FLUTE (1-3 credits)
• Individual weekly instruction on flute.
• Students work with the instructor to schedule lessons for one credit hour (non-majors), two credit hours (music education majors), or three credit hours (music performance majors).
• Students are evaluated at each lesson on their musical and technical progress.
• A lab fee is required.
• Prerequisite(s): Enrollment in this course requires an audition performed for and approved by the woodwind faculty, or successful completion of at least 1 credit of MUS 815F.
Students enrolled in this course must also enroll in an instrumental ensemble.
• MUS 815G APPLIED FRENCH HORN (1-3 credits)
• Individual weekly instruction on french horn.
• Students work with the instructor to schedule lessons for one credit hour (non-majors) or two credit hours (music majors).
• Students are evaluated at each lesson on their musical and technical progress.
• A lab fee is required.
Music majors must attend the weekly masterclass.
• MUS 815H APPLIED GUITAR (1-3 credits)
• Private study of the guitar at the university graduate level.
• Individual weekly instruction on guitar.
• Students work with the instructor to schedule lessons for one to three credit hours.
• Students are evaluated at each lesson on their musical and technical progress.
• A lab fee is required.
• Prerequisite(s): An audition is required of all students registering for three hours of study and declaring guitar as their major instrument.
Not open to non-degree graduate students.
• MUS 815I APPLIED HARP (1-3 credits)
• Individual weekly instruction on harp.
• Students work with the instructor to schedule lessons for 1-3 credit hours.
• Students are evaluated at each lesson on their musical and technical progress.
• A lab fee is required.
• Prerequisite(s): An audition is required of all students registering for three hours of study and declaring harp as their major instrument.
Not open to non-degree graduate students.
• MUS 815J APPLIED OBOE (1-3 credits)
• Individual weekly instruction on oboe.
• Students work with the instructor to schedule lessons for one credit hour (non-majors) or two credit hours (music majors).
• Students are evaluated at each lesson on their musical and technical progress.
• A lab fee is required.
Music majors must attend the weekly masterclass.
• MUS 815K APPLIED PERCUSSION (1-3 credits)
• Individual weekly instruction on percussion.
• Students work with the instructor to schedule lessons.
• Students are evaluated at each lesson on their musical and technical progress.
• A lab fee is required.
• Prerequisite(s): Admission into the graduate college.
Must attend the weekly masterclass. Not open to non-degree graduate students.
• MUS 815L APPLIED PIANO (1-3 credits)
• Individual weekly instruction on piano.
• Students work with the instructor to schedule lessons for one credit hour (BA), two credit hours (BM), or three credits (MM).
• Students are evaluated at each lesson on their musical and technical progress.
• A lab fee is required.
Music majors must attend the weekly masterclass.
• MUS 815M APPLIED PIPE ORGAN (1-3 credits)
• Individual weekly instruction on organ.
• Students work with the instructor to schedule lessons for one credit hour (non-majors) or two credit hours (music majors).
• Students are evaluated at each lesson on their musical and technical progress.
• A lab fee is required.
Music majors must attend the weekly masterclass.
• MUS 815N APPLIED SAXOPHONE (1-3 credits)
• Individual weekly instruction on saxophone.
• Students work with the instructor to schedule lessons for one credit hour (non-majors) or two credit hours (music majors).
• Students are evaluated at each lesson on their musical and technical progress.
• A lab fee is required.
Music majors must attend the weekly masterclass.
• MUS 815O APPLIED TROMBONE (1-3 credits)
• Individual weekly instruction on trombone.
• Students work with the instructor to schedule lessons for one credit hour (BA), two credit hours (BM), and three credits (MM).
• Students are evaluated at each lesson on their musical and technical progress.
• A lab fee is required.
Music majors must attend the weekly masterclass.
• MUS 815P APPLIED TRUMPET (1-3 credits)
• Individual weekly instruction on trumpet.
• Students work with the instructor to schedule lessons for one credit hour (BA), two credit hours (BM), and MM (three credits).
• Students are evaluated at each lesson on their musical and technical progress.
• A lab fee is required.
Music majors must attend the weekly masterclass.
• MUS 815Q APPLIED TUBA (1-3 credits)
• Individual weekly instruction on tuba.
• Students work with the instructor to schedule lessons for one credit hour (non-majors) or two credit hours (music majors).
• Students are evaluated at each lesson on their musical and technical progress.
• A lab fee is required.
Music majors must attend the weekly masterclass.
• MUS 815R APPLIED VIOLA (1-3 credits)
• Private study of the viola at the university graduate level.
• Individual weekly instruction on viola.
• Students work with the instructor to schedule lessons for one to three credit hours.
• Students are evaluated at each lesson on their musical and technical progress.
• A lab fee is required.
• Prerequisite(s): An audition is required of all students registering for three hours of study and declaring viola as their major instrument.
Not open to non-degree graduate students.
• MUS 815S APPLIED VIOLIN (1-3 credits)
• Individual weekly instruction on violin.
• Students work with the instructor to schedule lessons for 1-3 credit hours.
• Students are evaluated at each lesson on their musical and technical progress.
• A lab fee is required.
• Prerequisite(s): An audition is required of all students registering for three hours of study and declaring violin as their major instrument.
Not open to non-degree graduate students.
• MUS 815T APPLIED VOICE (1-3 credits)
• Graduate level individual weekly instruction for voice.
• Students work with their assigned instructor to schedule lessons for one or two credit hour (MM Education candidates) or three credit hours (MM Performance candidates).
• Students are evaluated at each lesson on their musical and technical progress.
• A lab fee is required.
All students must attend the weekly masterclass.
• MUS 8006 SPECIAL STUDIES IN MUSIC (1-3 credits)
• Seminars or workshops in Theory, History, Performance, and Music Education designed to meet specific interests and needs of students.
• Topics and number of credits for each specific offering will be announced during the prior semester.
• Prerequisite(s): Graduate and permission of department.
• MUS 8160 PERFORMING ENSEMBLES (0-1 credits)
• Provides high quality performance experience for the graduate level string, voice, instrumental, and jazz students.
• Students will be exposed to a wide variety of music from appropriate style periods.
• Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing, audition.
Not open to non-degree graduate students.
• MUS 8246 ADVANCED AUDIO RECORDING TECHNIQUES (3 credits)
• Advanced instruction in sound mixing, digital audio editing, audio post-production and mastering.
• Topics include advanced digital audio editing, audio signal processing techniques, analog signal processing hardware, automation, and final product authoring and mastering.
• Prerequisite(s): MUS 3170, MUS 4200 & MUS 4210.
Not open to non-degree graduate students.
• MUS 8436 ARRANGING FOR JAZZ ENSEMBLE (3 credits)
• Techniques of writing for jazz ensembles of various combinations of instruments.
• Prerequisite(s): MUS 2480 or MUS 2420
• MUS 8446 MUSIC SINCE 1945 (3 credits)
• Covers important developments in music in the United States and Europe since 1945.
• Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing or permission of the instructor.
• Advanced study of performance practice and music analysis.
• MUS 8536 HISTORY OF WESTERN OPERA (3 credits)
• Significant music theater works in the Western world from 1600 to the present.
• Prerequisite(s): Music major or permission of instructor
• Comprehensive survey of music literature c. 1350-1600.
• Prerequisite(s): MUS 2550, 2560, 2570 and graduate.
Not open to non-degree graduate students.
• MUS 8556 BAROQUE MUSIC LITERATURE (3 credits)
• Comprehensive survey of music literature from c. 1600-1750.
• Prerequisite(s): MUS 2550, MUS 2560 and graduate.
• MUS 8566 CLASSICAL MUSIC LITERATURE (3 credits)
• Comprehensive survey of music literature from c. 1750-1815.
• Prerequisite(s): MUS 2550, 2560, 2570 and graduate
• MUS 8576 ROMANTIC MUSIC LITERATURE (3 credits)
• Comprehensive survey of Music literature from c. 1815-1912.
• Prerequisite(s): MUS 2550, MUS 2560 and graduate.
• MUS 8586 MUSIC FROM 1900 - 1945 (3 credits)
• Comprehensive survey of music literature from the post-romantic period to 1945.
• Prerequisite(s): MUS 2560.
• MUS 8596 AFRICAN-AMERICAN POPULAR MUSIC FROM BEBOP TO HIP-HOP (3 credits)
• Comprehensive survey of African-American popular music literature from c. 1900-present.
• Prerequisite(s): Music major standing or permission of instructor.
• MUS 8600 PEDAGOGY OF WORLD MUSIC (3 credits)
• Covers the two primary approaches to teaching world musics; the world music curriculum and the music in America curriculum.
• Prerequisite(s): Graduate
• MUS 8606 PIANO PEDAGOGY (3 credits)
• Survey of the art of teaching the piano.
• Prerequisite(s): Graduate
• MUS 8610 ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION IN MUSIC (3 credits)
• Designed to acquaint students with the knowledge and concepts necessary for understanding and developing music education programs in the public schools and specific knowledge pertaining to policies and procedures for administering and supervising programs of music education.
• MUS 8616 VOICE PEDAGOGY (3 credits)
• Study of the physiological and acoustical properties of the vocal mechanism and of the various techniques used in developing the singing voice.
• Prerequisite(s): Voice Music Major or permission of instructor.
• MUS 8630 RESEARCH AND BIBLIOGRAPHY IN MUSIC (3 credits)
• Study of research techniques and literature in music toward the objectives of reading and evaluating music research and doing independent work in the area.
• Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing in the UNO School of Music.
• MUS 8640 FOUNDATIONS OF MUSIC EDUCATION (3 credits)
• Study of psychological and historical backgrounds of music education through attention to relevant topics in the psychology of music and learning theory and through relevant readings in the history of music education as well as sociological trends in American schools.
• Prerequisite(s): Graduate.
• MUS 8660 PEDAGOGY OF MUSIC THEORY (3 credits)
• Designed to introduce teachers to the techniques and problems of teaching music theory in elementary and secondary schools and colleges.
• Prerequisite(s): Acceptance to the graduate program in music.
• MUS 8670 KODALY I: METHODOLOGY (3 credits)
• Strategies for teaching music based on the philosophies and practices of musician-composer-educator Zoltan Kodaly.
• Prerequisite(s): Graduate
• MUS 8680 KODALY 2: METHODOLOGY (3 credits)
• Strategies for teaching music based on the philosophies and practices of musician-composer-educator Zoltan Kodaly.
• Prerequisite(s): Successful completion of MUS 8670
• MUS 8690 KODALY 3: METHODOLOGY (3 credits)
• Strategies for teaching music based on the philosophies and practices of musician-composer-educator Zoltan Kodaly.
• Prerequisite(s): Successful completion of MUS 8680.
• MUS 8696 HEALTH AND WELLNESS FOR MUSICIANS (3 credits)
• Prerequisite(s): Graduate
• MUS 8700 CONDUCTING PRACTICUM (1-3 credits)
• Private instruction in conducting and an intense study of the various disciplines in music and their relationship and application to the art of conducting.
• Prerequisite(s): Acceptance into the graduate program for conducting majors.
Permission of instructor for performance or music education majors.
• MUS 8710 KODALY 4: METHODOLOGY AND ADVANCED STUDIES (3 credits)
• Strategies for teaching music based on the philosophies and practices of musician-composer-educator Zoltan Kodaly.
• Prerequisite(s): Kodaly certification (levels I-III).
• MUS 8720 KODALY 1: MUSICIANSHIP (1 credit)
• Basic musicianship skills through singing, conducting, and dictating simple rhythms, melodies and folk songs.
• Prerequisite(s): Requires concurrent enrollment in MUS 8670
• MUS 8726 CHORAL LITERATURE (3 credits)
• Survey course in the study of significant choral genre of the various periods of music from plain song to contemporary music.
• Prerequisite(s): Graduate music major standing or permission of the instructor.
• MUS 8730 KODALY 2: MUSICIANSHIP (1 credit)
• Intermediate musicianship skills through singing, conducting, and dictating simple rhythms, melodies and folk songs.
• Prerequisite(s): MUS 8670 and MUS 8720; Requires concurrent enrollment in MUS 8680
• MUS 8736 KEYBOARD LITERATURE (3 credits)
• Prerequisite(s): Graduate
• MUS 8740 KODALY 3: MUSICIANSHIP (1 credit)
• Advanced musicianship skills through singing, conducting, and dictation of rhythms, melodies and folk songs in multiple meters, scales, and modes.
• Prerequisite(s): MUS 8680 and MUS 8730; Requires concurrent enrollment in MUS 8690
• MUS 8746 VOICE LITERATURE (3 credits)
• Study of the development of art song in Europe and America.
• Prerequisite(s): MUS 815T or permission of graduate instructor.
• MUS 8770 KODALY 4: MUSICIANSHIP (1 credit)
• Advanced musicianship skills through singing, conducting, and dictation of rhythms, melodies and folk songs in multiple meters, scales, and modes.
• Prerequisite(s): MUS 8690 and MUS 8740; Requires concurrent enrollment in MUS 8710
• MUS 8970 GRADUATE PROJECT (3 credits)
• Completion of a graduate project relevant to the student's major area of study under the supervision of an advisor.
• Prerequisite(s): A committee comprised of three full-time faculty members, with graduate standing in the School of Music must approve the project.
• MUS 8980 RECITAL (3 credits)
• Selection, preparation and public performance of a full recital in the student's major applied area.
• Prerequisite(s): Students are required to pay a Recital Fee which covers costs for programs and recording.
Students must be concurrently enrolled in applied lessons (MUS 815) on the instrument/voice on which they are performing the recital.
• MUS 8990 THESIS (3 credits)
• Develop a substantive thesis which employs and mirrors research or original thought of a quality and quantity appropriate to advanced work in music education.
• Prerequisite(s): MUS 8630 and 24 hours of graduate coursework.
A Proposed Supervisory Committee Form and Thesis Proposal Approval Form filed with the Office of Graduate Studies before initiating the thesis at least one semester prior to anticipated graduation date.