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Graduate Degree Programs
The School of Music offers the Master of Music degree with concentrations in accompanying, choral and instrumental conducting, jazz, organ, piano, piano literature and pedagogy, strings, voice, voice pedagogy, winds, percussion, music education, music theory (with an optional emphasis in music technology), music composition, and musicology.
Applicants must have completed an undergraduate degree that is approximately equivalent in music requirements to degrees conferred by the University of Tennessee, with a major appropriate to the applicant's prospective area of concentration on the master's level.
Applicants who plan to pursue the concentration in performance or music education are required to audition for the appropriate area faculty. Applicants for admission to the program in composition must submit scores and tape recordings of representative works. Applicants for the concentration in jazz must audition in jazz improvisation and jazz piano proficiency and interview with members of the faculty in this area. Other applicants are required to have an interview with members of the faculty of the prospective area of concentration.
All entering master's degree students are required to take diagnostic examinations in music theory, ear-training, and music history/literature. These examinations are given by the School of Music at the beginning of each semester.
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