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School of Music and Fine Arts
Dr. Leigh Anne Hunsaker, Program Director
The School of Music offers the Master of Music degree with majors in performance, music educa-
tion, theory/composition, and church music. The Master of Music degree is designed to:
1. Continue the development of individual talents, interests, and philosophies.
2. Extend professional competence in the areas of education, conducting, music minis-
try, composition, and/or performance.
3. Acquaint the student with techniques of research in music.
The degree requires a minimum of 30 hours; however, additional hours may be required to
meet the standards for a particular area of study.
Admission Criteria
Applicants for graduate study in music must hold a bachelor's degree from a regionally accred-
ited college or university with recognized standing in the National Association of Schools of
Music.
Admission to the program requires the program director's endorsement, which will be based
on evaluation of the following elements:
1. Prior academic performance, which will be evaluated in regard to (1) over all GPA,
(2) two letters of recommendation detailing undergraduate work or professional
experience, (3) GPA in all course work in music, (4) overall upper level GPA, (5)
fulfillment of necessary prerequisites (see below), (6) previous graduate course work,
and (7) the dates of completion of previous academic work.
2. Evidence of facility in the organization and expression of ideas in English.
3. Demonstrate by examination, skills, and capacities in written harmony, sight-singing,
melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic dictation, and history and literature of music.
4. The examining committee of the School of Music may require or recommend under-
graduate courses for the removal of deficiencies before a student may register for
graduate credit in certain fields of study.
5. Students must provide evidence of completed undergraduate prerequisites for each
graduate course in the area.
6. Special entrance requirements for various majors in the Master of Music degree:
a. Performance
i. Prospective performance majors must qualify by audition for graduate study.
Auditions are regularly scheduled in the first week of the fall and spring semes-
ters. Although new students may choose to take applied lessons for a semes-
ter or two before auditioning, only applied study credits earned after official
acceptance will apply toward the degree. Only 6000 level performance study
will count toward the MM (performance) degree. Students who have not yet82
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