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Admission Requirements
Please see information on the School of Music Application Process.
For admission, you will audition for the appropriate faculty. Piano
accompaniment will be provided. (Send one copy of audition music prior
to the audition date for accompanist's review. Please include your name
on all pages of music.) The singer will be evaluated on
knowledge and skill in tonal quality, rhythm, intonation, phrasing,
interpretation,
diction, and stage presence as well as overall musical ability and
accuracy.
Your audition should include:
- Two art songs to be sung by memory. (Do not audition with jazz,
pop, country, rock, folk, or musical theatre repertoire.) One song must be
in English; the second song may be in English but a foreign language is preferred.
- Short ear-training exam
- Sight reading
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Degree Requirements
- Masters Level-Voice (664-505), 8 cr.
- Masters Recital (664-990), 4 cr.
- Language Diction for Singing I & II (660-467 and 468), 4 cr.
- Ensembles (660-461, 557, 558, 568, 578), 2 cr.
- Seminar in Vocal Techniques (660-749), 2 cr.
- Seminar in Vocal Literature (660-792), 3 cr.
- Musicology and Music Theory, 9 cr.
- Language: one college-level year, or equivalent, of French, German and Italian
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Admission Requirements
Please see information on the School of Music Application Process. In addition:
Voice candidates are required to submit a preliminary recording
in MP3 format for evaluation (see Uploads for more info). The recording should include an aria from opera
or oratorio plus two art songs. Preliminary recordings must be submitted with your School of Music application and received no later than October 15th for a November audition, and no later than December 1st
for all other auditions. A recording WILL NOT BE EVALUATED WITHOUT A COMPLETED
APPLICATION FILE. Please contact the area chair, Professor Julia
Faulkner (jfaulkner2@wisc.edu), for more information. Applicants will be
invited to campus for a live audition based on the preliminary
recording and application materials.
Early submission of screening recording and application file is encouraged so applicants receive results as soon as possible.
Opera and Voice auditions will be held on:
November 21, 2009
January 15 (if necessary) & 16, 2010
February 5 (if necessary) & 6, 2010
If you are invited to audition, you may bring your own accompanist or arrange to have one here.
Contact the area chair for a list of accompanists. The applicant is responsible for accompanist fees. A live audition is necessary for admission.
Audition repertoire for MM in voice:
5 pieces, including one aria from opera or oratorio and four art songs;
demonstrate facility in a variety of languages (including English,
Italian, French and German), styles and periods.
Bring five copies of the list of your audition repertoire to your audition.
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Degree Requirements
- Doctoral Level-Voice (664-705), 16 cr.
- Recitals
(664-999) or University Opera (660-556), or oratorio roles (664-999)
1-2 cr. each, 6 cr. total (maximum 2 credits from opera and/or oratorio
roles)
- Music Research Methods and Materials (660-619), 3 cr.
- Seminar in Vocal Literature (660-792), 3 cr.
- Seminar in Vocal Techniques (660-749), 2 cr.
- Language Diction for Singing I & II (660-467 and 468), 4 cr.
- Minor, 10-12 cr.
- Musicology and Music Theory, 9 cr.
- Language:
French, German and Italian at the elementary level, and the completion
of two of those languages at the intermediate level (credits and method
of completion vary)
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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