Southern Illinois University at Carbondale offers the Master of Music degree with concentrations in Music Education, Performance, Opera and Music Theater, Theory and Composition, History and Literature, Piano Pedagogy, and Conducting. The School of Music faculty numbers thirty full-time positions. Within its ranks are to be found many outstanding composers, performers and educators, representing a broad diversification of background and talent. Faculty members present many solo and small ensemble performances, as well as clinics and workshops, during the school year. Virtually all faculty with the rank of Professor, Associate Professor or Assistant Professor hold doctoral degrees or appropriate terminal degrees.
Library Facilities
Morris Library is a completely equipt research library for virtually every area of expertise. In addition to Morris Library, the School of Music has its own recording and score library, including modern stereo listening facilities, cassettes, and cassette decks for self-instruction in ear training and music literature, some 1600 LP recordings and tapes, over 1100 scores, many in multiple copies, and 94 books and reference works. The self-instruction center in Morris Library provides tape recordings of theory and literature for student use.
Musical Organizations
A wide variety of performing opportunities is available, including the Southern Illinois Symphony, Wind Ensemble, Symphonic Band, jazz ensembles and combos, Marching Salukis, brass ensemble, guitar ensemble, percussion ensemble, choral union, concert choir, chamber choir, and vocal jazz ensemble. The Marjorie Lawrence Opera Workshop presents one full opera production each year in addition to several programs of small operas and operatic excerpts. The Summer Music Theater presents two full-scale musicals during the summer session.
Musical Performances
Some 130 School of Music programs are presented each year, plus Southern Illinois Concert Series and Celebrity Series appearances by well-known concert artists. A music schedule is available for further details concerning concert activity through the School of Music.
Other Resources
A fifty-eight rank Reuter pipe organ, the principal instrument for recitals and teaching, is installed in Shryock Auditorium. Available for practicing are a four-rank Ott tracker organ, a six-rank Moeller, and a four-rank Wicks. Eighty-five pianos, including twenty-two in practice rooms, an eighteen-unit electronic piano lab, and a full complement of band and orchestral instruments are available.
Graduate Assistantship and Fellowship Applications
Any student seeking a master's degree may apply to the coordinator of graduate studies in music for a graduate assistantship. An undergraduate overall grade-point average of 2.8 (A = 4 points) is required for consideration. The assignment of assistantships, for those who are eligible, is based upon School of Music needs and student qualifications. Graduate Assistants must enroll in courses for the required 6 hour minimum each semester of residency which count toward degree requirements. A student with an overall grade-point average of 3.5 or better is eligible to apply for a graduate fellowship involving no School of Music assignment. The School of Music offers six programs leading to the Master of Music degree. Each master's degree requires a minimum total of 30 credits, with a minimum total of 15 credits at the 500 level. Students enrolled in a program leading to a Ph.D. degree major in education, with a concentration in curriculum and instruction education, may choose the elective portion of their programs from graduate courses offered in the School of Music.
Master of Music Degree Standard Curricula
Music History and Literature Concentration
Majors complete MUS 501-3; 502-4 (2,2); 2 credits (1,1) from 566; 6 credits selected from 475, 476, 477, 573, 574, or 578; 599-6; 6 credits in music history-literature electives; 3 elective credits in non-music history-literature courses. In addition to the general requirements for graduation, music history/literature majors must have successfully completed two years of a foreign language (preferably French or German), at the undergraduate level, or pass 388-488 (German or French) as a research tool with a grade of B or higher.
Music Theory and Composition Concentration
Majors complete MUS 501-3; 502-4 (2,2); 545-3; 3 credits from the 470 or 570 series; 480-4 (580-4 must be completed by composition majors); 2 credits (1,1) selected from 566; 599-6; 5 credits of approved music electives in theory-composition, history-literature, conducting, or performance.
Performance Concentration
Majors complete MUS 501-3; 502a or b (2); 5 credits from 461, 482, or 470 or 570 series; 8 credits in 540 (440 if specializing in pedagogy); 2 credits from 566, 567, or 568 (or other electives if keyboard major); 6 credits in 595 and 598 (recital and document); 4 credits in non-performing music elective. If specializing in conducting, majors must complete MUS 501-3; 502-4 (2,2); 556-4 (2,2); 3-6 credits from the 470 or 570 series; 2-4 credits in 440; 2 credits from 566 (1,1) or other electives if keyboard major; 6 credits in 595 and 598 (recital and document); 3 credits in music electives.
Opera and Music Theater Concentration
Opera/music theater majors must have an undergraduate degree major in music with appropriate experience in opera or music theater, or in theater with additional music study sufficient to qualify in performance, theory, and history of music. Core courses (required) include MUS 468 (2-4); 501 (3); 570 (3); 595 (2); 598 (4) or 599 (6) in lieu of 598 and 595. Also required are MUS 567 or 568 (1,1,1,1); 6 credits from 440-540, 461, 472, 479c or 556; and 6 hours of approved graduate level theater credits.
Piano Pedagogy Concentration
Majors complete hours of credit in the following music courses: 3 in 501; 4 in 440 or 540; 4 in 498 and 2 in 595 or 4 (2,2) in 498 and 2 in 595 or 2 in 498 and 4 in 599; 410; 510 (2,2,2); 2 (1,1) from 566; 3 credits from approved music electives; and 4 credits from approved non-music courses (in fields of guidance and educational psychology, higher education, philosophy, and speech communication).
Music Education Concentration
Majors complete MUS 501-3; 502a or b (2); 503 and 509; 5 hours of approved music education courses and 2 credits of approved music electives; 2 credits (1,1) from 566; 5 credits from the 470 and 570 series; 599-6 or 6 credits from 499 and 595; or 595 and 598.
General Information
Advisement: The graduate coordinator in music supervises the overall planning of the student's program and designates the document or thesis director.
Diagnostic tests in music theory and history are given during orientation at the beginning of the fall semester and must be taken by all students at the first opportunity after admission. The student with weaknesses in certain areas may be asked to take additional work in those areas. A student will be accepted as a performance major in the Master of Music degree program after satisfactory audition in person, either before admission or during orientation. A performance major may be conditionally accepted on the basis of a tape recording; but a student accepted conditionally may be asked to audition in person during orientation or during the first term of residence, and may be required to register at the 400 level in performance until approved by personal audition. Current brochures from various performance areas and the Graduate Handbook in Music describe the level of repertory expected, audition procedures, and diagnostic tests.
Ensemble Requirement: All graduate students are required to register for MUS 566 (MUS 567 or 568 may substitute for MUS 566 only for those students whose concentration is opera music theater) each semester of degree study (summers excepted). Participation is required each semester in one or more of the following: Marching Salukis, symphonic band, wind ensemble, symphony, choral union, concert choir, chamber singers, or guitar ensemble. In addition, students may elect participation in other regularly scheduled emphasis. Graduate assistants assigned ensemble accompanying must register for alternate ensemble for credit. Petitions for exceptions to the ensemble requirement must be made in writing and presented to the School of Music graduate committee for consideration.
Exceptions to Degree Requirements. Appropriate substitutions in the curriculum for the Master of Music degree may be made if recommended by the student's adviser and approved by the graduate committee in music. Students who expect to earn more than half of their credits during summer terms only, or by a combination of summer attendance and night classes, may similarly propose a sequence of course offerings, following the above curricular patterns as far as possible. All curricula must meet Graduate School requirements and be approved by the graduate committee in music. Special summer students changing plans and registering for more than one regular fall or spring semester will ordinarily follow the appropriate standard curriculum.
The Thesis, Document, and Research Paper. All master's degree candidates will complete either (1) a thesis, or (2) a large, original composition and document, or (3) a full recital performance and document.
No later that the beginning of the semester preceding the semester in which the student expects to graduate, the graduate coordinator, in consultation with the student, will designate a document or thesis director from the current list of graduate faculty from whom a student has taken graduate level courses. The document or thesis director guides the student's choice of topic and is responsible for the progress and quality of the resulting work. The document director normally heads the student's orals committee. Before any work is begun on the thesis or document, the student submits a proposal, together with a selective bibliography where applicable and the reactions of the document or thesis director, to the coordinator of graduate studies in music for approval by the graduate committee. Changes of topic or of document director after initial approval must be approved by the music graduate committee.
Graduate Recital (598-4) is supervised by a jury of at least 3 members, headed by the student's instructor in performance. This jury approves the level of literature to be performed and acceptability of the performance by means of an audition in advance of the final performance.
Comprehensive Examinations. During the final semester of study, and after completion of the document or thesis, the student will take comprehensive examinations dealing with general areas of music and concentrations of music study, and, when appropriate, with the student's thesis or document. Application to take comprehensive examinations must be made at the beginning of the students last semester of study. The examinations must be passed in time to meet Graduate School deadlines. Application for comprehensive examinations may not be made until all other requirements, with the exception of terminal-semester courses, for the degree have been satisfied. A failed section of the comprehensive examinations may be taken again in a following term.
The oral examination committee, appointed by the coordinator of graduate studies in music, is headed by the student's document or thesis director with two or more faculty members with whom the student has had graduate level classes, as requested by the student. If the student has scheduled 6 or more hours in a department other than music, a member of this department will be invited to serve on the examining committee. The examination committee will conduct the student's oral examination and will supply questions for the student's written examination.
Three copies of all theses, thesis-composition manuscripts, and tapes and documents must be submitted in final form to the music graduate office at least 5 weeks before the intended date of graduation, carrying the approval of all members of the student's graduation committee. The graduate coordinator will forward 1 copy of a student's document (2, if a thesis) to the Graduate School and retain 1 copy.
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