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Percussion
Degree Overview [See worksheet for specifics]
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Admission Requirements Please see information on the School of Music Application Process. In addition:
1) A complete solo and chamber repertoire list is to be submitted to the Graduate Admissions Office during the application process.
2) Once you have a complete application file, contact the Graduate Admissions Office (gradadmissions@music.wisc.edu) to schedule an audition on one of the three available audition dates.
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.
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 Overview [See worksheet for specifics]
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:
1) A complete solo and chamber repertoire list is to be submitted to the Graduate Admissions Office during the application process.
2) Once you have a complete application file, contact the Graduate Admissions Office (gradadmissions@music.wisc.edu) to schedule an audition on one of the three scheduled audition dates.
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.
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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