Music [Graduate]

General Information

The Department of Music offers programs leading to the degrees of Master of Arts, PhD, Master of Music, and Doctor of Music. The MA and PhD include work in the areas of Musicology, Music Theory, Ethnomusicology, and interdisciplinary music studies. Areas of concentration within the MMus program include Applied Music (keyboard instruments, piano pedagogy, orchestral instruments, wind band conducting, and voice), Choral Conducting, and Composition. The DMus program is offered in piano and organ performance, in choral conducting, and in composition, and is considered on an individual basis for applicants in other performance areas.

Application forms, brochures, and further information can be obtained from the Department of Music website, address above. To receive full consideration for funding and to be assured of an audition date, all applications supporting documentation, including transcripts, composition portfolios, writing samples, and recorded audition materials (in programs for which they are acceptable) must be received by December 1. For further information email queries to musicgs@ualberta.ca.

Graduate Program Requirements

• The Degrees of MA and MMus
   
• The Degree of DMus
   
• The Degree of PhD
   

Graduate Courses

Graduate courses can be found in Course Listings , under the subject heading Music (MUSIC).