TIM CARTER, Chair
Annegret Fauser, Director of Graduate Studies
Mark Evan Bonds (6) Late Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Music, Aesthetics
Tim Carter (3) Late Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Music, Music and Theater, Analysis
Annegret Fauser (7) Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Music, French Music, Women's and Gender Studies, Cultural Studies
Jon W. Finson (36) Nineteenth-Century Music, American Music
John L. Nádas (57) Late Medieval Music, Italian Opera
Severine Neff (12) Twentieth-Century Music and Theory
Anne MacNeil (8) Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Music, Music and Theater, Gender Studies, Historiography
Philip Vandermeer, Traditional and American Popular Music
Jocelyn Neal (5) Twentieth-Century Theory, Popular Music
David Garcia (1) Latin American Music, Popular Music
Mark Katz (0) World Musical Technology, Popular Music, American Music
Felix Wörner (0) History of Theory, Twentieth-Century Music
The department offers the degrees of master of arts (MA) in musicology and the doctor of philosophy (PhD) in musicology, construing "musicology" in its broad sense to encompass the interrelated disciplines of music history, music theory, and ethnomusicology. The department also supports the School of Education's programs leading to the degrees of master of arts in teaching (MAT), and doctor of education (EdD) with a minor or special project in music; applications to these programs are made to the School of Education, from which information is available. More detailed information on the Music Department's faculty and programs may be found on the department's Web site: www.unc.edu/music.
Central to the departmental resources is the Music Library, which ranks high among the nation's music libraries for its scholarly editions, periodicals, early source materials, iconographic aids, microfilms, folk-music collections, and recordings.
The usual prerequisite for admission to graduate work leading to the MA and PhD degrees is a bachelor of arts degree with a major in music, comparable to that given at this university. All applicants for graduate study in music are required to take the departmental diagnostic exam and the verbal and quantitative aptitude tests of the Graduate Record Examination (GRE). The GRE should be taken early enough for the scores to be submitted with the application for admission, preferably in the summer or fall preceding application for admission. Applicants for the MA or the PhD program must also submit a thesis or research paper with the application.
MA candidates must either pass the departmental diagnostic examination in one modern foreign language or complete the fourth semester of the undergraduate language sequence in that language at UNC-Chapel Hill with a grade of B or better; PhD candidates must demonstrate proficiency in two foreign languages in one of the two ways described above. MA candidates must fulfill departmental theory and keyboard proficiency requirements by examination, or by completing a series of specified undergraduate courses in the department with a grade of B or better. Students entering the PhD program with a completed MA from another institution must also meet these theory and keyboard requirements as early in their course of study in the department as possible, and in any event, before they can advance to candidacy for the PhD.
MUSC 750 and 751 (Resources and Methods in Musicology I and II) are required of all MA students in their first and second semesters respectively, as is MUSC 992 (Master's Thesis) in the fourth semester. Other courses are drawn from a range of offerings comprising proseminars (repertory-, method-, or issue-based studies) and seminars (on more precise topics normally requiring significant research on primary sources). Graduate students have the option to include courses from other departments that may be organized as a formal minor (nine hours for the MA, fifteen for the PhD) or as a supporting program. Courses taken outside the department must be approved in advance by the director of graduate study in music and by the departments concerned as directly relevant to a proposed course of study.
MA candidates take courses totaling thirty credit hours and write a thesis that is a revision of a paper prepared for a graduate seminar. All candidates for a master's degree take a final oral examination covering course work; a final written examination is not given.
Students entering with an equivalent MA from another institution are required to take MUSC 750 and 751 (Resources and Methods in Musicology I and II) in their first two semesters respectively, in addition to four proseminars or seminars in the department at the graduate level during their first, probationary year.
At the beginning of each spring semester a qualifying examination is given to those who wish to proceed to the PhD program after gaining the MA. Students already in the department's MA program take the examination in the second year. Those who received the MA at another institution must take the examination in the spring of their first year of study.
Following the completion of an additional twelve hours of seminars above the thirty hours required for the MA and of language requirements, PhD students take a written examination in three areas of specialization to be determined through consultation with the faculty and director of graduate study in music, and an oral examination on a proposed dissertation topic. They then register for at least two semesters of MUSC 394 (Doctoral Dissertation), complete the dissertation, and undergo a second oral examination in its defense.
More detailed explanation of these requirements appears in the Music Department's Graduate Handbook (www.unc.edu/music/grad_handbook.html).
In addition to campus-wide grants (discussed elsewhere in this Record), assistantships and special grants are available to selected graduate students in music. The deadline for all graduate applications is January 1; separate application for aid is not necessary but may be indicated on the general application form for admission to The Graduate School. Selected applicants are nominated for university-wide awards that range from $14,000 to $18,000. Assistantships awarded by the department to qualified students require about ten hours of service per week. Departmental awards average $14,000 and usually include tuition remission for out-of-state students, payment of in-state tuition, and other benefits.
750 [101] RESOURCES AND METHODS OF MUSICOLOGY I (3). Introduction to the field of musicology, including its scope, methodology, and bibliography. Taught in three-week modules, each directed by a different member of the academic faculty. Individual modules will include music history, music theory, ethnomusicology, music aesthetics, and cultural studies. Fall.
751 [102] RESOURCES AND METHODS OF MUSICOLOGY II (3). Continuation of MUSC 750. Spring.
830 [248] PROSEMINAR IN MUSIC THEORY (3). Fall and spring.
850 [249] PROSEMINAR IN MUSICOLOGY (3). Fall and spring.
870 [250] PROSEMINAR IN ETHNOMUSICOLOGY (3). Fall and spring.
890 [298] SPECIAL STUDIES (Var.). The faculty assists and advises graduate students in work on particular research projects. Available to musicology graduate students only (MAT students taking special studies must register under MUSC 471). Hours and credits to be arranged.
930 [336] SEMINAR IN MUSIC THEORY (3). Fall and spring.
950 [337] SEMINAR IN MUSICOLOGY (3). Fall and spring.
970 [338] SEMINAR IN ETHNOMUSICOLOGY (3). Fall and spring.
992 [393] MASTER'S THESIS (3). Fall and spring.
994 [394] DOCTORAL DISSERTATION (3). Fall and spring.