MM Music at University of Alabama

Programme overview

The School of Music offers the Master of Music (MM) in composition (arranging emphasis option), conducting (wind & choral), musicology, performance, and theory. An audition on the major instrument. A complete repertoire list must be submitted, noting those works prepared for the audition.

Faculty: J. Frank Barefield Jr. College of Arts and Sciences | Department: Music | Duration: 36 credit hours | Study mode: full-time | Location: Tuscaloosa, AL, United States

What you will study

The degree requires 36 credit hours. Courses in the listed curriculum include MUS 519 Adv Composition I, MUS 520 Adv Composition II, MUS 501 Intro Grad Stdy In Mus, MUA 501 Secondary Applied Study (Three Semesters), MUS 510 Advanced Arranging (Two Semesters), MUS 505 Studio Tech Arrang Orchestrn.

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Application information

Entry requirements

All courses of graduate music study must meet the general requirements of the Graduate School as given in the Admission Criteria section of this catalog. See the Admission Criteria section of this catalog for more information. In addition, the School of Music imposes the following special requirements: The Bachelor of Music degree in the chosen field of study from The University of Alabama or the equivalent from another accredited institution. In special cases, a student holding the bachelor's degree but without a formal major in the chosen field may be admitted by examination. Diagnostic entrance examinations are required in musicianship, music theory and writing skills; vocal performance majors also take diagnostic examinations in IPA transcription and song text translation in German, Italian, French, and, where appropriate, Latin and English. All theory and history deficiencies revealed in these examinations must be removed by the end of the first fall semester after matriculation.

Tuition is charged per credit, so the total depends on the modules you register for each year. Current fees are listed in the official fee schedule.

Entry terms: Fall, Spring and Summer (the admissions page lists Spring, and Summer/Fall priority deadlines).

Graduate application fee is $65 for U.S. citizens and permanent residents and $80 for international students (nonrefundable). Deadlines are set per programme in the Academic Programs Portal; some programmes require a standardized test such as GRE or GMAT.

Apply through the official page: https://graduate.ua.edu/

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