Program Overview

Musicology (MA) Program

The Musicology (MA) program is designed to provide students with advanced competencies in music history and literature, musicology, and ethnomusicology. The program requires a total of 50-61 credits and includes a combination of coursework, research, and a final project.

Program Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this program, students will be able to:

• Demonstrate advanced competencies in music history and literature and/or musicology and/or ethnomusicology.
• Gain knowledge and skills in one or more fields of music outside the major, such as theory and analysis, pedagogy, and performance.
• Have a reading ability in at least one foreign language.
• Have a culminating demonstration of professional capability in the major field, through the submission of a final project that demonstrates advanced competence in research and writing in music history, musicology, or ethnomusicology.

Musicology Major Requirements

The program requires the following courses:

• Performance Studies, at least three terms (6 credits)
• MUP 635: Music Performance Studies: [Topic] or MUP 650: Music Performance Studies
• Appropriate ensemble, at least three terms (3-6 credits)
• MUS 694: Chamber Ensemble: [Topic], MUS 695: Band: [Topic], MUS 696: Orchestra: [Topic], MUS 697: Chorus: [Topic], MUS 698: Opera Workshop, MUS 536: World Music Ensemble: [Topic], MUS 691: Collegium Musicum, MUJ 695: Small Jazz Ensemble: [Topic], MUJ 690: Jazz Laboratory Band III, MUJ 691: Jazz Laboratory Band II, MUJ 692: Oregon Jazz Ensemble
• MUS 503: Thesis (9 credits)
• MUS 614: Introduction to Musicology (4 credits)
• Music in Historical Era - Select four of the following: MUS 660: Music in the Middle Ages, MUS 661: Music in the Renaissance, MUS 662: Music in the Baroque Era, MUS 663: Music in the Classical Period, MUS 664: Music in the Romantic Era, MUS 665: Music in the 20th Century (12 credits)
• Three Seminars in Music History: MUS 670: Graduate Seminar in Musicology: [Topic], MUS 671: Seminar in Ethnomusicology: [Topic] (9-12 credits)
• One graduate course in ethnomusicology: MUS 551: Introduction to Ethnomusicology, MUS 552: Musical Instruments of the World, MUS 562: Popular Musics in the African Diaspora (3-4 credits)
• One course in music history or ethnomusicology, theory, or approved area other than music (3-4 credits)
• Research Development 1 (1-4 credits)
• Final Oral Examination 2

Music History/Ethnomusicology/Theory Courses

The following courses are available:

• MUS 528: Cultures of Musical Celebrity (4 credits)
• MUS 551: Introduction to Ethnomusicology (4 credits)
• MUS 552: Musical Instruments of the World (4 credits)
• MUS 562: Popular Musics in the African Diaspora (4 credits)
• MUS 575: History of Opera (4 credits)
• MUS 587: Music and Emotion (4 credits)
• MUS 614: Introduction to Musicology (4 credits)
• MUS 643: Notation of Medieval and Renaissance Music (3 credits)
• MUS 660: Music in the Middle Ages 1 (3 credits)
• MUS 661: Music in the Renaissance 1 (3 credits)
• MUS 662: Music in the Baroque Era 1 (3 credits)
• MUS 663: Music in the Classical Period 1 (3 credits)
• MUS 664: Music in the Romantic Era 1 (3 credits)
• MUS 665: Music in the 20th Century 1 (3 credits)
• MUS 670: Graduate Seminar in Musicology: [Topic] (4 credits)
• MUS 671: Seminar in Ethnomusicology: [Topic] (4 credits)
• MUS 680: Historical Performance Practices I (3 credits)
• MUS 681: Historical Performance Practices II (3 credits)
• MUS 682: Historical Performance Practices III (3 credits)
• MUS 683: Rhetoric and Music (4 credits)
• MUS 584: Choral Conducting and Literature (3 credits)
• MUS 516: Post-Tonal Theory I (3 credits)
• MUS 517: Post-Tonal Theory II (3 credits)
• MUS 530: Tonal Analysis: Linear Prolongational Analysis (3 credits)
• MUS 531: Tonal Analysis: Form in Tonal Music (3 credits)
• MUS 532: Tonal Analysis: Analysis of Popular Music (3 credits)
• MUS 533: Counterpoint (4 credits)
• MUS 534: Counterpoint (4 credits)
• MUS 535: Counterpoint (4 credits)
• MUS 615: Current Trends in Music Theory (3 credits)
• MUS 629: Repertoire and Analysis (3 credits)
• MUS 630: History of Theory I (3 credits)
• MUS 631: History of Theory II (3 credits)
• MUS 632: History of Theory III (3 credits)
• MUS 634: Advanced Post-Tonal Theory (3 credits)