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Admission Requirements
Please see information on the School of Music Application Process. In addition:
MM candidates should prepare an audition of 20-25 minutes in
length. Each candidate is required to perform on four instrumental
areas. A performance on the marimba (4 mallets) or vibraphone and the
snare drum are required and two more instruments may be selected from
timpani, multiple percussion, various orchestral excerpts, drum set,
and world percussion. In addition to the prepared repertoire the
audition will also consist of sight-reading on timpani, snare drum and
marimba (2 mallets and 4 mallets). Memorization is neither required nor
discouraged.
Auditions in Madison are highly preferred; if you have a videotape of
any percussion performance that includes world percussion or drum set
playing in an ensemble setting and/or multiple percussion repertory,
please bring a DVD copy of this to your audition. Entirely videotaped auditions
will be considered only in unusual circumstances or for international
students. Please bring to the audition, a complete list of repertoire (chamber and solo)
you have studied in the past.
If you have any further audition repertoire questions, would like
to request more information on the percussion program, or if you wish
to audition via video recording, please contact Professor Di Sanza.
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Degree Requirements
- Doctoral Level-Percussion (660-727), 16 cr.
- Recitals (664-999), 1 cr. each, 5 cr. total
- Music Research Methods and Materials (660-619), 3 cr.
- Ensembles and Organizations (660-568,570,571,574,576), 2 cr.
- Percussion Literature/Pedagogy (660-550 or 540), 2 cr.
- Minor, 10-12 cr.
- Musicology and Music Theory, 9 cr.
- Language: one language at intermediate level (credits and method of completion varies)
Doctoral Minor The purpose of the
doctoral minor is to add breadth and depth to the D.M.A or Ph.D degree.
To insure coherence a minor program must be approved by the appropriate
department, a student's advisor, and the Director of Graduate Studies,
and must include courses at the 300-level or above. Typically, a minor
requires 12 credits of work.
Students have a variety of options, including completing an
internal minor within the School of Music (e.g., a D.M.A. conducting
student who minors in ethnomusicology or a Ph.D. in music theory who
minors in clarinet performance), completing a minor in a department
outside the School of Music (e.g., a D.M.A. in horn performance who
minors in Women's Studies or a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology who minors in
East Asian studies). Students may, in consultation with the Director of
Graduate Studies, devise a distributed minor that brings together
courses from a variety of departments around a particular topic or area
of interest. For example, a D.M.A. student in voice devises a minor in
vocal health that includes courses in communicative disorders, or a
Ph.D. student in musicology devises a minor in Medieval History that
includes courses in art history, history, and languages.
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Admission Requirements
Please see information on the School of Music Application Process. In addition:
DMA candidates should prepare an audition of 35-40 minutes in
length. Each candidate is required to perform on five instrumental
areas. Four-mallet marimba (or vibraphone), two-mallet marimba (or
xylophone) and snare drum are required with two more areas selected
from timpani, multiple percussion, various orchestral excerpts, drum
set and world percussion. In addition to the prepared repertoire the
audition will also consist of sight-reading on timpani, snare drum and
marimba (2 mallets and 4 mallets). Memorization is neither required nor
discouraged.
Auditions in Madison are highly preferred; if you have a videotape of
any percussion performance that includes world percussion or drum set
playing in an ensemble setting and/or multiple percussion repertory,
please bring a DVD copy of this to your audition. Entirely videotaped auditions
will be considered only in unusual circumstances or for international
students. Please bring to the audition, a complete list of repertoire (chamber and solo)
you have studied in the past.
If you have any further audition repertoire questions, would like
to request more information on the percussion program, or if you wish
to audition via video recording, please contact Professor Di Sanza.
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