Ohio University Music Graduate Program

Ohio University
Graduate Catalog

Music

Admission

To begin a graduate program in music, you are required to have completed, with at least a 2.5 accumulative average, an undergraduate curriculum in music from an accredited institution offering an undergraduate degree equivalent to the requirements of the National Association of Schools of Music. Music education students not holding standard certification must earn Ohio certification.

Personal auditions and interviews should be arranged by all candidates. (Taped auditions will be accepted only if a personal audition is difficult or impossible.) Candidates in composition must submit scores, a statement of purpose, and, if possible, recorded tapes.

After admission has been granted, placement examinations are given to all entering graduate students during registration week of the first quarter of enrollment. You are required to take a proficiency test in theory and history and literature of music. The results of these placement tests are used in planning your course of study. Applied majors must demonstrate graduate level performance proficiency. Deficiencies in undergraduate preparation should be removed during the first year of graduate study.

You may apply for admission to the School of Music graduate programs for any quarter. All application materials must be submitted 30 days prior to the quarter in which you plan to begin your graduate program. Typically, the school begins awarding financial aid on April 1 of each year for the next academic year; therefore, early application for financial aid is encouraged.

General Requirements

Programs leading to the Master of Music degree, requiring a minimum of 45 credit hours of graduate work, are offered in applied music (performance and performance/pedagogy emphasis--piano, strings, woodwinds), theory , composition , music education , music history and literature , and music therapy . A thesis or its equivalent is required in all academic programs except music education, where a 48 quarter-hour (minimum) nonthesis option is available. Applied music majors are required to perform in an appropriate ensemble each quarter in residence and to present a public degree recital. In lieu of a thesis, majors in composition present compositions in a large form.

In addition to the 45 quarter hours required for the M.M. degree, students in voice (performance) are required to demonstrate skill in German, French, and Italian diction. Students in music history are required to demonstrate reading ability in at least one foreign language. An oral examination is required of each candidate. See the School of Music Graduate Handbook for specific requirements.