Principal authors of treatises dealing with composition, counterpoint, and harmony. Emphasis on relationship between works discussed and contemporary pedagogical techniques of presenting theory and allied subjects.

An exploration of repertoire, history, pedagogy, and/or other topics specific to the student's instrument or voice, designed to help prepare the graduate performance major for the Applied portion of the Masters Oral Examination.

Bibliography, materials, and research methods in historical and systematic musicology.

This ensemble provides all University members an opportunity to perform in a non-competitive atmosphere and achieve success according to one's individual goals. Students will be required to practice before each rehearsal. One performance will be given each semester. Attendance is mandatory. An audition is required.

Not available at this time

In the course, students will examine selected Western music theories from various historical eras that likely challenge both their musical intuitions and what they have learned in most twenty-first-century U.S. theory curriculums??in other words, ?weird? music theories.

The Choral Conducting program at UMass Amherst is designed to offer students increasing experience with the technical and expressive skills that conducting demands. This course will cover the practice and exploration of gestural communication as applied to choral music. The course will equip students with advanced conducting techniques, analytical skills, and rehearsal methods necessary to become successful ensemble conductors.

This course is a laboratory chorus that provides conducting pedagogy experiences for graduate Choral Conducting students and undergraduate conductors, and chamber vocal ensemble experience for singers.