The Graduate Program in Music offers MA and PhD degree programs in areas of specialization that include Ethnomusicology, Musicology, Jazz, Popular Music, and Composition (MA only).

The program offers a variety of course and research opportunities, giving particular but not exclusive emphasis to North American music, including jazz and urban popular music, religious music, concert and folk music in rural and urban localities. Recognition is given to the multiple cultures that coexist in 21st-century society and to the many contexts and issues which shape musical expression. Members of the program are concerned with the scholarly study of composition, improvisation, aural cognition, mediation and reception as well as cultural studies and criticism.

Its faculty members include ethnomusicologists, performers, music historians, music theorists and composers, all of whom teach in their specialized areas of research and share a concern for the critical study of methodologies and procedures in music scholarship and composition.

DEADLINE EXTENSION FOR 2010-2011 ADMISSION - MUSIC - February 1, 2010