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Standards of Review and Evaluation

All graduate students in the Music Division are reviewed by the Scholastic Standing Committee at quarterly intervals throughout the academic year. In keeping with an advanced level of training, graduate students are held to a higher standard of achievement and professionalism in all studies. At the Master’s level, grades lower than B in major study and performance classes are not acceptable; grades lower than C do not carry credit.

Note: Supplementary English instruction may be required for graduate programs, based on the results of the TOEFL exam.

Graduate Courses

Graduate courses (courses coded GRMUS) generally meet once each week for two hours. They provide both a comprehensive and professionally focused study of epochal musical periods, conceptual issues, and performance practice. Some of these courses may be taken for one semester; some must be taken for the full year (in such cases no credit will be given for one semester); some have prerequisites. These courses are open to students, as advised, in the Master of Music, Graduate Diploma, Artist Diploma, and Doctor of Music Arts programs. They are also open to advanced undergraduates with the permission of the instructors and the Dean’s Office.

Programs

The Master of Music (M.M.) degree program is an advanced course of study for musicians who hold the bachelor’s degree and who seek graduate musical training and classroom learning to prepare themselves more fully for careers as professional musicians.

Length of Program

The minimum residency to complete the program is two years. Extensions to the normal residency are only granted for valid reasons and may affect financial aid eligibility.

Credit Requirement

The minimum number of credits required to complete the degree is 54 (56 in Jazz Studies; 72 in Collaborative Piano ; 58 in Historical Performance ). The  distribution of those credits by major appears with each program.

Performance Requirement

A graduation recital is required of all Voice and instrumental majors. In place of a recital, Composition and Conducting majors must demonstrate artistic  accomplishment equivalent to that required for the recital. That equivalency will be determined by the respective departmental faculties.

• Bass Trombone, MM
• Bassoon, MM
• Cello, MM
• Clarinet, MM
• Collaborative Piano, MM
• Collaborative Piano-Instrumental, MM
• Collaborative Piano-Vocal, MM
• Composition, MM
• Conducting, MM
• Double Bass, MM
• Flute, MM
• Guitar, MM
• Harp, MM
• Historical Performance, MM
• Horn, MM
• Jazz Studies, MM
• Oboe, MM
• Organ, MM
• Percussion, MM
• Piano, MM
• Trombone, MM
• Trumpet, MM
• Tuba, MM
• Viola, MM
• Violin, MM
• Voice, MM

The Graduate Diploma program is for highly gifted musicians who wish to pursue musical studies beyond the undergraduate level but do not wish to enter the full Master of Music degree program. An undergraduate degree or diploma is required for admission.

NOTE: Important statistics and disclosure information on all non-degree diploma programs are available on the Juilliard Web site.

• Bass Trombone, Graduate Diploma
• Bassoon, Graduate Diploma
• Cello, Graduate Diploma
• Clarinet, Graduate Diploma
• Collaborative Piano, Graduate Diploma
• Collaborative Piano-Instrumental, Graduate Diploma
• Collaborative Piano-Vocal, Graduate Diploma
• Composition, Graduate Diploma
• Conducting, Graduate Diploma
• Double Bass, Graduate Diploma
• Flute, Graduate Diploma
• Guitar, Graduate Diploma
• Harp, Graduate Diploma
• Historical Performance, Graduate Diploma
• Horn, Graduate Diploma
• Jazz Studies, Graduate Diploma
• Oboe, Graduate Diploma
• Organ, Graduate Diploma
• Percussion, Graduate Diploma
• Piano, Graduate Diploma
• Trombone, Graduate Diploma
• Trumpet, Graduate Diploma
• Tuba, Graduate Diploma
• Viola, Graduate Diploma
• Violin, Graduate Diploma
• Voice, Graduate Diploma

 NOTE: Important statistics and disclosure information on all non-degree diploma programs are available on the Juilliard Web site.

• Jazz Studies, Artist Diploma
• Opera Studies, Artist Diploma
• Performance, Artist Diploma
• String Quartet Studies, Artist Diploma

Courses

The aim of the ear training program is to equip students with thorough skills in rhythm, pitch, and musical structures in order to promote confident, fast, and accurate learning. Through a guided series of precision exercises, students come to understand their roles as soloists, as collaborators in small or large ensembles, and as creators in transmitting to an audience the emotional content of the music. The fixed-do system — primarily because of its systematic approach to both tonal and atonal music — is employed to develop all pitch-related skills.

• ETMUS 511-2X — Ear Training IxIIx

The Keyboard Studies department aims to raise the level of keyboard facility and musicianship skills for all music students at Juilliard. The department is primarily comprised of two courses of study: Secondary Piano and Keyboard Skills. 

Secondary Piano is required of all non-keyboard music majors. It is designed to enhance students’ understanding of Music Theory and to develop basic keyboard skills of use in their future careers as performers and teachers. Its two-year curriculum trains students in the rudiments of piano playing, including scales, arpeggios, basic keyboard harmony, and sight-reading, while maintaining the study of repertoire, ranging from pedagogical pieces to Classical-era sonatinas, simple piano accompaniments to vocal and instrumental repertoire, and keyboard reductions of score excerpts.

Keyboard Skills is required of all keyboard majors. Its two-year curriculum is designed to sharpen specific practical skills that are necessary for all keyboard players. It covers sight-reading, keyboard harmony, transposition, and score-reading. The final semester of the Keyboard Skills sequence offers a variety of advanced electives on a rotating basis, including improvisation. 

Prior to entering into the Keyboard Skills sequence, students are required to pass a sight-reading proficiency exam. In support of this requirement, a two-semester Keyboard Sight-Reading course taught by graduate teaching fellows is offered in the student’s first year.

• KSMUS 511-2X — Keyboard Skills IxIIx

• GRMUS H603 — Explorations in Music History I
• GRMUS H604 — Explorations in Music History II
• GRMUS H619 — Handel: from Sources to Sound
• GRMUS H629 — One City - Ten Years
• GRMUS H632 — Music in New York
• GRMUS H635 — Late Style and Early Romanticism: Beethoven and Schubert
• GRMUS H639 — Brahms: The Culmination of an Era
• GRMUS H650 — Wagner’s Ring
• GRMUS H651 — The Modernist Era
• GRMUS H653 — Schumann at Work: Learning From the Manuscripts
• GRMUS H657 — Paris Between the Wars
• GRMUS H659 — The Life and Times of Gustav Mahler
• GRMUS H660 — Music, Performing, and the Public
• GRMUS H661 — Music Since World War II
• GRMUS H667 — Chamber Music: From the Home to the Concert Hall
• GRMUS H672 — Beethoven: The Symphonies in Context
• GRMUS H679 — Romanticism, Pop Culture, and Media
• GRMUS H682 — American Music: Sources and Cultures
• GRMUS H683 — History of Jazz
• GRMUS H684 — African American Music: An Introduction
• GRMUS H686 — First Nights
• GRMUS H694 — Music & 20th C. Movements
• GRMUS 688 — Church as Conservatory

• GRMUS T603 — Graduate Theory Review
• GRMUS T606 — Bach’s Matthew and John Passions
• GRMUS T615 — Beethoven’s Late Piano Sonatas
• GRMUS T616 — The Late Beethoven Quartets
• GRMUS T623 — Advanced Counterpoint: Compositional Counterpoint and the Organic Line
• GRMUS T624 — Advanced Counterpoint: Invertible Counterpoint, Canon and Fugue
• GRMUS T625-6 — Advanced Studies in Harmony
• GRMUS T633 — Music in Context
• GRMUS T637 — Contrapuntal Analysis: The Fabric of Music
• GRMUS T638 — String Music: Brahms to Bartok
• GRMUS T640 — The New and the Old
• GRMUS T641 — The American Symphony: Ives to Corigliano
• GRMUS T644 — Beethoven: The Heroic Decade, 1800-1810
• GRMUS T645 — Methods of Analysis
• GRMUS T657 — Schubert and Schumann: The Song Cycles
• GRMUS T662 — Schoenberg and the Serial Legacy
• GRMUS T663 — European Avant-garde Composers: 1945-1980
• GRMUS T664 — The Music of Stravinsky
• GRMUS T671 — Introduction to Post-Tonal Theory
• GRMUS T682 — Music Theory Pedagogy
• GRMUS T693 — Schenkerian Analysis I
• GRMUS T694 — Schenkerian Analysis II

• GRMUS S687 — The Great Pianists

• GRMUS P658 — Jazz Practicum for Pianists
• GRMUS P670 — Composers and Choreographers
• GRMUS P671 — Early Music Vocal Literature
• GRMUS P673 — Opera Lab Seminar
• GRMUS P674 — Opera Lab Practicum
• GRMUS P677-8 — Opera Performance Technique for Pianists
• GRMUS P679-80 — Russian Diction/Vocal Literature
• GRMUS P682 — British and American Song Literature
• GRMUS P683-4 — French Vocal Literature
• GRMUS P685-6 — German Vocal Literature
• GRMUS P687-8 — Italian Vocal Literature
• GRMUS P691-2 — Instrumental Accompanying I
• GRMUS P693-4 — Skills of Vocal Accompanying
• GRMUS P695-6 — The Art of Vocal Coaching
• GRMUS P697-8 — Orchestral Keyboard Repertoire

• GRMUS P610 — Baroque as a Second Language: Historical Performance for Modern Players
• GRMUS P611 — Baroque as a Second Language: Historical Performance for Modern Players
• GRMUS P633 — Improvisation
• GRMUS P651-2 — Performance Workshop on 20th- and 21st-Century Music
• GRMUS P656 — Jazz Practicum
• GRMUS P660 — Introduction to Music Production
• GRMUS P662 — Scoring to Picture
• GRMUS P663 — Creation, Improvisation & Technology
• GRMUS P664 — Scoring to Picture Workshop
• GRMUS P665 — Independent Study in Music Production
• GRMUS P666 — Music Production Workshop
• GRMUS P667 — Introduction to Interactive Music Technology
• GRMUS P668 — Advanced Interactive Music Technology
• GRMUS P675 — Performance Enhancement

• GRMUS E605 — Career Development Seminar
• GRMUS E613 — The Musician as Entrepreneur
• GRMUS E615 — Breaking Barriers: Classical Music in an Age of Pop
• GRMUS E620 — Speaking of Music: How to Talk and Write About Music
• GRMUS E633-4 — Suzuki Pedagogy
• GRMUS E640 — Insights Into Learning: An Introduction to Music Pedagogy
• GRMUS E644 — Arts in Education
• GRMUS E651 — Piano Pedagogy
• GRMUS E653 — The Art of Teaching in the Music Studio
• GRMUS E670 — The Arts and Society
• GRMUS E674 — Leadership and Innovation in the Creative Arts

• GRMUS R600 — Conductors’ Forum
• GRMUS R601-2 — Sonatas for Accompanists I
• GRMUS R603-4 — Composition Seminar
• GRMUS R611-2 — Songs for Accompanists
• GRMUS R621 — Principles of Conducting
• GRMUS R622 — Conducting Seminar
• GRMUS R623-4 — Studio Accompanying
• GRMUS R701-2 — Sonatas for Accompanists II
• GRMUS R721-2 — Conducting Seminar
• MSMUS R511-2 — Advanced Score Reading and Musicianship for Conductors
• MSMUS R623-4 — Repertoire Performance
• MSMUS 621-2 — Piano Performance Class

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