Department of Music
TIM CARTER, Chair
Annegret Fauser, Director of Graduate Studies
Professors
Mark Evan Bonds (006) Late 18th- and 19th-Century Music, Aesthetics
Tim Carter (003) Late 16th- and 17th-Century Music, Music and Theater, Analysis, American Musical Theater
Annegret Fauser (007) 19th- and 20th-Century Music, France, America, Women's and Gender Studies, Cultural Studies
Jon W. Finson (036) 19th-Century Music, American Music
Stefan Litwin (008) 20th-Century Music, Performance Practices
John L. Nádas (057) Late Medieval Music, Italian Opera
Severine Neff (012) 20th-Century Music and Theory
Associate Professors
Allen Anderson (004) Music Theory
Mark Katz (011) World Musical Technology, Popular Music, American Music
Anne MacNeil (008) 16th- and 17th-Century Music, Music and Theater, Gender Studies, Historiography
Jocelyn Neal (005) 20th-Century Theory, Popular Music
Adjunct Associate Professor
Philip Vandermeer (015) Traditional and American Popular Music
Assistant Professors
Brigid Cohen Music post World War II, Migrations and Diasporas
David Garcia (010) Latin American Music, Popular Music
Felix Wörner (014) History of Theory, 20th-Century Music
Lecturer
Marzanna Poplawska, World Music, Indonesia, Gamelan
Hana Vlhová-Wörner, Medieval Music
Degrees
The department offers the degrees of master of arts (M.A.) in musicology and the doctor of philosophy (Ph.D.) in musicology, construing "musicology" in its broad sense to encompass the interrelated disciplines of music history, music theory, ethnomusicology and studies of popular culture. The department also supports the School of Education's programs leading to the degrees of master of arts in teaching (M.A.T.), and doctor of education (Ed.D.) 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 at music.unc.edu.
Special Facilities
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 department also sponsors a research internship program in the Music Division at the Library of Congress.
Prerequisites for Degree Programs
The usual prerequisite for admission to graduate work leading to the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees is a bachelor of arts degree with a major in music, or a bachelor of music degree, comparable to those 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 M.A. or the Ph.D. program must also submit with their application samples of their recent writing on musical subjects.
Language and Course Requirements, Examinations
M.A. 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; Ph.D. candidates must demonstrate proficiency in two foreign languages in one of the two ways described above. M.A. 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 Ph.D. program with a completed M.A. 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 Ph.D.
MUSC 750 and 751 (Resources and Methods in Musicology I and II) are required of all M.A. 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, 15 for the Ph.D.) or as a supporting program. Courses taken outside the department must be approved in advance by the director of graduate studies in music and by the departments concerned as directly relevant to a proposed course of study.
M.A. candidates take courses totaling 30 credit hours and write a thesis that is a revision of a paper prepared for a graduate course taken in the music department. 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 M.A. 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 Ph.D. program after gaining the M.A. Students already in the department's M.A. program take the examination in the second year. Those who received the M.A. at another institution must take the examination in the spring of their first year of study.
Following the completion of an additional 12 hours of seminars above the 30 hours required for the M.A. and of language requirements, Ph.D. students take a written examination in three areas of specialization to be determined through consultation with the faculty and director of graduate studies in music, and an oral examination on a proposed dissertation topic. They then register for at least two semesters of MUSC 994 (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 (music.unc.edu/grad/grad/grad_degree_info/grad_handbook/index_html).
Fellowships, Assistantships and Other Student Aid
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 $15,000 to $20,000. Teaching assistantships may be awarded by the department; these awards average $16,000 and usually include tuition remission for out-of-state students, payment of in-state tuition and other benefits.
Courses for Graduates
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 (1–21). The faculty assists and advises graduate students in work on particular research projects. Available to musicology graduate students only (M.A.T. 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.