Tuesday, November 24, 2009
D.M.A. Composition
Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition
Degree Requirements
  • Doctoral Level Composition (664-747/748), 12 cr.
  • Seminars (660-926/927-930/915), 15 cr.
  • Advanced Independent Work (660-999) and Lecture Recitals (664-999), 1 cr. each
  • Colloquium (660-900), 0 cr. -- every semester
  • Music Research Methods and Materials (660-619), 3 cr.
  • Minor, 10-12 cr.
  • Musicology and Music Theory, 9 cr.
  • Language requirement; one language at intermediate level (credits and method of completion varies)
Course Catalog
Doctoral Minor
The purpose of the doctoral minor is to add breadth and depth to the D.M.A or Ph.D degree. To insure coherence a minor program must be approved by the appropriate department, a student's advisor, or the Director of Graduate Studies, and must include courses at the 300-level or above. Typically, a minor requires 12 credits of work.

Students have a variety of options, including completing an internal minor within the School of Music (e.g., a D.M.A. conducting student who minors in ethnomusicology or a Ph.D. in music theory who minors in clarinet performance), completing a minor in a department outside the School of Music (e.g., a D.M.A. in horn performance who minors in Women's Studies or a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology who minors in East Asian studies). Students may, in consultation with the Director of Graduate Studies, devise a distributed minor that brings together courses from a variety of departments around a particular topic or area of interest. For example, a D.M.A. student in voice devises a minor in vocal health that includes courses in communicative disorders, or a Ph.D. student in musicology devises a minor in Medieval History that includes courses in art history, history, and languages.
Admission Requirements

*NOTE: When filling out your Graduate School application, apply for Music:Performance DMA.*

Please submit along with your School of Music Application:

DMA candidates should submit 3-5 scores and recordings of at least two of those scores. Also send a list of all completed compositions, including title, instrumentation, duration, date of composition, and first public performance.

If you would like your scores and/or recordings returned to you after admission decisions are made, you must include a self-address and FULLY postage-paid envelope large enough to hold all materials. We will not return materials otherwise.