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Master of Music in Theory-Composition Entrance Requirements and Other Essentials The Master of Music in Theory-Composition is an applied and academically-based degree requiring 30 units of study in private composition lessons, theory, conducting, history and literature. The Cal State Fullerton School of Music faculty include award winning composers. Students thrive in an environment large enough to engage in challenging, vital composition, but intimate enough for specialized individual attention. For those who intend to pursue doctoral studies, the Master of Music degree normally leads to the Ph.D. or DMA degree. Prerequisites The Master of Music, Theory-Composition provides an avenue of graduate study for the highly creative composer. Programs are tailored to each student’s demonstrated talent and needs for professional development. Applicants must, without exception, have completed either a BM degree in Composition or show evidence of equivalent rigorous training. Audition Requirements Each applicant shall present a portfolio of original compositions equivalent in number, length, and variety of instrumentation to those required for the Bachelor of Music (Composition) degree. The portfolio should include at least three works demonstrating the applicant’s artistry and craft in composing for a variety and scope of media such as voice or voices, woodwinds, brass, strings, keyboard, percussion, and/or electronic media in any combination including chamber and large ensemble settings. Applicants should submit scores and, whenever possible, tapes of those scores (MIDI realizations are acceptable). If the compositions do not fulfill all requirements, a special recital may be required before admission to the Master of Music in Theory- Composition. An interview with the faculty might also be requested. All applicants must be able to demonstrate musicianship by performing a selection of their choice on their primary instrument or voice if requested. Essay Requirement A three-page essay to include a discussion of the following: 1) the goal(s) you wish to attain through your studies for the Master of Music, Composition, 2) your reason(s) for choosing Composition as an area of creative and academic concentration, and 3) specifically, your relation to the progression of musical thought through history. For example, with which composers do you feel a special affinity and why? With which compositional trends and techniques do you feel a special affinity and why? Are there any other significant influences on your compositional outlook.
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Master of Music in Theory-Composition Entrance Requirements and Other Essentials
The Master of Music in Theory-Composition is an applied and academically-based degree requiring 30 units of study in private composition lessons, theory, conducting, history and literature. The Cal State Fullerton School of Music faculty include award winning composers. Students thrive in an environment large enough to engage in challenging, vital composition, but intimate enough for specialized individual attention. For those who intend to pursue doctoral studies, the Master of
Music degree normally leads to the Ph.D. or DMA degree.
Prerequisites The Master of Music, Theory-Composition provides an avenue of graduate study for the highly creative composer. Programs are tailored to each students demonstrated talent and needs for professional development. Applicants must, without exception, have completed either a BM degree in Composition or show evidence of equivalent rigorous training.
Audition
Requirements
Each applicant shall present a portfolio of original compositions equivalent in number, length, and variety of instrumentation to those required for the Bachelor of Music (Composition) degree. The portfolio should include at least three works demonstrating the applicants artistry and craft in composing for a variety and scope of media such as voice or voices, woodwinds, brass, strings, keyboard, percussion, and/or electronic media in any combination including chamber and large ensemble settings. Applicants should submit scores and, whenever possible, tapes of those scores (MIDI realizations are acceptable).
If the compositions do not fulfill all requirements, a special recital may be required before admission to the Master of Music in Theory-Composition. An interview with the faculty might also be requested. All applicants must be able to demonstrate musicianship by performing a selection of their choice on their primary instrument or voice if requested.
Essay
Requirement
A three-page essay to include a discussion of the following: 1) the goal(s) you wish to attain through your studies for the Master of Music, Composition, 2) your reason(s) for choosing Composition as an area of creative and academic concentration, and 3) specifically, your relation to the progression of musical thought through history. For example, with which composers do you feel a special affinity and why? With which compositional trends and techniques do you feel a special affinity and why? Are there any other significant influences on your compositional outlook.
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Letters of
Recommendation
Arrange to have letters of recommendation from three music professionals familiar with your preparation for graduate study sent to the School of Music graduate program adviser.
Submission Dates For full consideration, audition and essay materials should be submitted by February 1 for Fall semester and by December 1 for Spring semester.
Entrance
Exams
After being admitted, all entering graduate students take entrance exams in music history and music theory. The exams cover undergraduate level
material and are given Thursday before the first week of classes.
More Information Information on University entrance requirements can be found at www.fullerton.edu/catalog. Additional School of Music information can be found at www.fullerton.edu/arts/music and by contacting:
School of Music Graduate Program Adviser Dr. John Koegel, 657/278-7685; [email protected]
Composition-Theory Area Coordinator Dr. Ken Walicki, 657/278-3511
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