The Ph.D. program in ethnomusicology is organized around core seminars in fieldwork and in ethnomusicological history, theory, and practice. Building on this core, students are encouraged to design programs suiting their goals, choosing flexibly among course offerings in a variety of musical cultures as well as on topics such as music and race, class, gender, identity, and sexuality; musical thinking; music and documentary film/video production; music and modernization; and applied ethnomusicology. The small size of the program enables students to work closely with members of the faculty in advanced scholarly studies.

Additional resources: Video and audio recording equipment (available for field work), multimedia and electronic music experiments (MEME) studios, multimedia lab, Koetting Ethnomusicology Archive with world music recordings and field recording collections, the vast collection of American sheet music in the John Hay Library, computer-assisted multimedia and hypermedia, Javanese gamelan, Ghanaian drumming, Appalachian string band, Afro-Latin jazz band.

Completion requirements: A.M.: Eight courses, including one course from MU126-MU129, one course credit in music performance, reading knowledge of one foreign language, one major research paper (normally based on fieldwork).

Students entering the program without the A.M. earn that degree as part of their progress toward the Ph.D. We do not normally encourage applicants who seek the A.M. as a terminal degree.

Ph.D.: All courses required for the A.M.; MU221, MU225, or MU226; one from MU227–MU229; a second foreign language, which may be a field language; written and oral comprehensive examinations; dissertation.

ADMISSION INFORMATION

Admission requirements: Writing sample required.

GRE General: Required

GRE Subject: Not required

Application deadline: January 1

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