Music, MA at Tulane University

The Department of Music offers the Master of Arts degree in Musicology and Composition. M.A. in Musicology with a concentration on New Orleans Music The M.A. program allows students to take advantage of the unique musical culture of New Orleans while pursuing a rigorous curriculum in musicology. Study is focused on music and culture of the American South, the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, and Europe and especially their interrelation in New Orleans.

Faculty: School of Liberal Arts  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: New Orleans, LA, United States

What you will study

Musicology Candidates for the M.A. degree must complete 30 credit hours of at least 24 semester hours of course work (including MUSC 7030 Music Research and Writing (3 or 4 c.h.) ), pass a reading knowledge examination in one modern foreign language (French, Spanish or other with approval) by the end of the first semester, write an acceptable thesis, and defend this thesis in an oral examination for an additional 6 semester hours.

Career pathways

Several of our Music Composition program alumni have had highly successful and diverse careers as composers of abstract music and as faculty members and administrators at major institutions. Over the years, the Music Composition program has also graduated many alumni who have had highly successful careers in other diverse disciplines: from the sciences, to medicine, to finance, mathematics, and ma

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