University of North Carolina Greensbro
| We approach music as an essential part of human culture and therefore aspire to engage with the diversity of musical meanings and practices globally and locally; our student and faculty scholarship enrich understandings of music as sound, text, and activity. We engage with local, regional, national and international communities through teaching, performance, publications, lectures, conferences, symposia, festivals, and other educational and cultural programs. |
| Undergraduate | The School of Music offers the only comprehensive degrees in music education and music performance, from the undergraduate level through doctoral study, in the state of North Carolina. The School of Music offers a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music, and Bachelor of Music degrees in Performance and Music Education. Outstanding facilities, world-class faculty, and numerous ensemble experiences support artistic and academic success. |
| BM: | |
| Performance | The Bachelor of Music in Performance is a professional music degree that prepares students for future careers as performers, composers and/or teachers. Concentrations are available in instrumental, vocal, jazz studies, and composition. The degree requires students to spend approximately two-thirds of their time in music study. The Music Performance degree, including jazz studies, requires an audition. |
| Music Education | The Bachelor of Music in Music Education prepares students for positions as choral directors (principal performance area usually voice, piano or organ), instrumental directors (principal performance area usually in orchestral or band instruments) and for teaching general music in public schools. |
| Composition | The Bachelor of Music in Music Composition degree offers outstanding resources to composition students, from our state-of-the-art Alice Virginia Poe Williams Electronic Music Studios to our outstanding computer lab. Our top-notch students and faculty are committed to both traditional compositional styles, as well as new music. |
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| Music | The Bachelor of Arts in Music is the most flexible of the music degrees. Combining high-quality musical training with the versatility and breadth of a liberal arts education, it prepares students for a variety of careers and opportunities. |
| Arts Administration | The Bachelor of Arts in Arts Administration is an interdisciplinary liberal arts degree, combining leadership and management theory and training within a cultural and creative arts context. |
| MINOR: | |
| Music | A 18-semester hour Music Minor affords students majoring in other fields the opportunity to complete a carefully planned course of study integrating performance, music theory, music history and music electives with large ensemble experience |
| Masters | The School of Music offers Master of Music degrees in music composition, music education, music performance, and music theory. Our outstanding facilities, world-class faculty, and numerous ensemble experiences provide an environment for artistic and academic success. |
| Composition | The Master of Music in Composition is a two-year degree. In addition to private composition study, students take courses in orchestration, electronic music, counterpoint, advanced theory and history and electives. Assistantships are available, as are a limited number of in-state and out-of-state tuition waivers. |
| Music Education | The Master of Music in Music Education requires 34 semester hours. At least one-half the work credited toward the degree must be in 600-level courses or above. A diagnostic examination is administered prior to the first semester of enrollment. |
| Music Performance | The Master of Music in Music Performance requires 32 semester hours for all concentrations except organ, which requires 34 semester hours, and vocal pedagogy, which requires 35 semester hours |
| Music Theory | Graduate courses in music theory are open to music students in master’s and doctoral degree programs as well as those in post-baccalaureate and post-master’s certificate programs |
| Doctoral | |
| DMA in Music | The Doctor of Musical Arts in Music requires a minimum of 90 semester hours of post-baccalaureate coursework. Students who begin study at the master’s level at UNCG must successfully fulfill all requirements for the master’s degree and successfully present a doctoral audition/interview to be admitted into the doctoral program. |
| PhD in Music Education | The PhD in Music Education requires 69 semester hours. At least 75% of all course work, exclusive of the dissertation, must be at the 600 or 700 level. A diagnostic examination is administered prior to the first semester of enrollment. |
| Licensure | |
| Music Education | The Music Education Area also offers a second degree to receive initial teacher licensure in music education. This program is ideal for people who have already earned a Bachelor’s degree in music that did not include a teaching license who wish to pursue a career teaching music |
| Post-Baccalaureate Certificates | |
| Composition | The Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Composition provides students with the knowledge and skills needed to pursue music composition within a variety of musical careers. |
| Ethnomusicology | Within a master’s or doctoral program, a student may elect a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Ethnomusicology (15 hours). |
| Historical Keyboard Performance | The Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Historical Keyboard Performance provides students guidance in playing 16th through 19th century repertoire on instruments contemporaneous with the music, supported by coursework in literature and performance practice. |
| Jazz | Anyone with an undergraduate degree in Music may elect a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Jazz (12 hours). |
| Music Education | Anyone with an undergraduate degree in Music may elect a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Music Education (12 hours). |
| Music Theory | The Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Music Theory provides students and/or professionals with the knowledge and skills needed to apply principles of music theory to a variety of musical careers. |
| Musicology | The Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Musicology provides students with the opportunity to study music history in greater depth in a structured program, preparing MM and DMA students to teach courses requiring music history knowledge, and thus enhancing their marketable skills |
| Performance Studies | The Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Performance Studies (Performance Certificate) offers talented musicians the opportunity to pursue focused studies in their major instrument while simultaneously offering the opportunity to further develop the skills needed for careers as performing artists. |
| Post-Masters Certificate | |
| Music Theory Pedagogy | The certificate program in Music Theory Pedagogy is open to students in the DMA and Ph.D. programs in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. |
International Students
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| BRASS |