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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-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 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 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.

Prior to entering 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 511X-512X — Keyboard Skills IxIIx
• KSMUS 543 — Keyboard Improvisation

The Music Theory and Analysis department helps students to develop and refine their natural musical instincts. The core curriculum offers a broad introduction to musical syntax, structure, and styles from the Renaissance to the present day. For Theory V, each section has a different repertoire or thematic focus.

Advanced elective courses (offered in a wide variety of subjects, on a rotating basis) allow students to focus in-depth on repertoire tailored to their special interests as well as to pursue sophisticated analysis projects. Vocal Arts majors are required to take only one elective, which must be from the Analytical Writing category. All other majors must take two electives, one from the Analytical Writing category and one from the Genres category.

The department offers honors coursework (by advisement) for composers and other advanced students who wish to pursue a more intensive, academically rigorous program of study. The department also offers Music Studies courses for students in the Dance and Drama Divisions, drawing on the School’s rich musical resources.

• GRMUS 643T — The Bartók String Quartets

• GRMUS 603H — Explorations in Music History I
• GRMUS 616H — Handel’s Operas: Performance Choices
• GRMUS 621H — From Classical to Romantic: Music and Society around 1800
• GRMUS 624H — Mozart’s Operas
• GRMUS 626H — Intimate Voices: Chamber Music and Song
• GRMUS 633H — Words and Music in German Romanticism
• GRMUS 634H — Music and the Museum
• GRMUS 636H — Schubert: The Final Decade
• GRMUS 644H — Brahms at Work: Learning From the Manuscripts
• GRMUS 648H — Beethoven from the Enlightenment to the Digital Age
• GRMUS 650H — Wagner’s Ring
• GRMUS 652H — Verdi’s Opera
• GRMUS 660H — Music, Performing, and the Public
• GRMUS 667H — Chamber Music: From the Home to the Concert Hall
• GRMUS 674H — Classical/Jazz: Boundaries
• GRMUS 676H — Music Born in Crisis
• GRMUS 680H — Women Composers Before 1800
• GRMUS 682H — American Music: Sources and Cultures
• GRMUS 684H — Foundations of African American Music
• GRMUS 694H — Music & 20th Century Movements
• GRMUS 695H — African-American Music Since the Harlem Renaissance
• GRMUS 696H — First Nights at the Opera

• GRMUS 603T — Graduate Theory Review
• GRMUS 606T — Bach’s Matthew and John Passions
• GRMUS 616T — The Late Beethoven Quartets
• GRMUS 618T — Wozzeck & Lulu: Operas of Alban Berg
• GRMUS 621T — Building Baroque: Compositional Theory in the 18th Century
• GRMUS 623T — Advanced Counterpoint
• GRMUS 624T — Advanced Counterpoint
• GRMUS 625T-626T — Advanced Studies in Harmony
• GRMUS 633T — Music in Context
• GRMUS 637T — Contrapuntal Analysis: The Fabric of Music
• GRMUS 640T — The New and the Old
• GRMUS 641T — The American Symphony: Ives to Corigliano
• GRMUS 642T — Romantic Design: Compositional Structure in the 19th Century
• GRMUS 643T — The Bartók String Quartets
• GRMUS 644T — Beethoven: The Heroic Decade, 1800-1810
• GRMUS 660T — Babbitt and Carter
• GRMUS 668T — The Rite, the Rake, and the Flood
• GRMUS 671T — Hearing Post-Tonal Analyses
• GRMUS 672T — String Music: Debussy to Bartók
• GRMUS 675T — Writing Cadenzas
• GRMUS 682T — Music Theory Pedagogy
• GRMUS 693T — Schenkerian Analysis I
• GRMUS 694T — Schenkerian Analysis II

• GRMUS 687S — The Great Pianists

• GRMUS 634P — Tonal Improvisation
• GRMUS 658P — Jazz Practicum for Pianists
• GRMUS 670P — Composers and Choreographers
• GRMUS 671P — Early Music Vocal Literature
• GRMUS 676P — Essentials of Music and Video Technology for Performing Artists
• GRMUS 677P-678P — Opera Performance Technique for Pianists
• GRMUS 682P — British and American Song Literature
• GRMUS 683P-684P — French Vocal Literature
• GRMUS 685P-686P — German Vocal Literature
• GRMUS 687P-688P — Italian Vocal Literature
• GRMUS 689P — Oratorio Practicum
• GRMUS 691P-692P — Instrumental Accompanying I
• GRMUS 693P-694P — Skills of Vocal Accompanying
• GRMUS 695P-696P — The Art of Vocal Coaching
• GRMUS 697P-698P — Orchestral Keyboard Repertoire

• GRMUS 610P — Baroque as a Second Language: Historical Performance for Modern Players
• GRMUS 611P — Baroque as a Second Language: Historical Performance for Modern Players
• GRMUS 639P — Accompanying Dance
• GRMUS 640P — Theatre Études
• GRMUS 649P — Viennese Song and Fortepiano
• GRMUS 651P — Performance Practice Seminar in Contemporary Music  
• GRMUS 652P — Performance Practice Workshop in 20th and 21st Century Music II
• GRMUS 655P — Cultural Equity and Performance Practice
• GRMUS 656P — Jazz Practicum
• GRMUS 659P — Roots: Rhythms, Music, and Dance of the Americas
• GRMUS 660P — Introduction to Music Technology
• GRMUS 662P — Composing for Visual Media
• GRMUS 663P — Creation, Improvisation & Technology
• GRMUS 663P-664P — Interactive Computer Music Performance
• GRMUS 664P — Scoring to Picture Workshop
• GRMUS 665P — Independent Study in Emerging and Collaborative Arts
• GRMUS 666P — Music Production Workshop
• GRMUS 667P — Introduction to Interactive Music Technology
• GRMUS 672P — From Studio to Stage
• GRMUS 675P — Psychology of Peak Performance

• GRMUS 605E — Career Development Seminar
• GRMUS 607E — A Career in Music: Foundations for Success
• GRMUS 614E — Musician as Entrepreneur
• GRMUS 615E — Breaking Barriers: Classical Music in an Age of Pop
• GRMUS 620E — Speaking of Music: How to Talk and Write About Music
• GRMUS 630E — Future Stages
• GRMUS 633E-634E — Suzuki Pedagogy
• GRMUS 644E — Arts in Education
• GRMUS 645E — Practicum in Classroom Pedagogy
• GRMUS 646E — Practicum in Classroom Pedagogy
• GRMUS 651E — Piano Pedagogy
• GRMUS 653E — The Art of Teaching in the Music Studio
• GRMUS 674E — Leadership and Innovation in the Creative Arts

• GRMUS 600R — Conductors’ Forum
• GRMUS 601R-602R — Collaborative Piano Repertoire and Study
• GRMUS 603R-604R — Composition Seminar
• GRMUS 611R-612R — Songs for Accompanists

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