Overview
Key Features
All incoming graduate students in the Musicology program at The University of Alabama must take the graduate diagnostic examination in music theory. Current graduate students must take the comprehensive examination, which includes a music history section, before being admitted to candidacy.
The School of Music offers master of music degrees in the following areas:- Choral conducting
- Composition
- Composition with an emphasis in arranging
- Musicology
- Organ performance with an emphasis in church music
- Performance (concentrations in piano, organ, organ with church music emphasis, voice and individual orchestral instruments)
- Performance (woodwind option)
- Piano accompanying
- Theory
- Wind conducting
Programme Structure
Courses include:
- Seminar in Musicology
- Proseminar in Ethnomusicology
- Special Topics in Musicology
- Special Topics in Musicology and Ethnomusicology
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 24 months
Start dates & application deadlines
- StartingApply anytime.
- Rolling admission.
Language
Credits
Delivered
Disciplines
Music Musicology View 1140 other Masters in Music in United StatesAcademic requirements
English requirements
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Other requirements
General requirements
- An online application form
- Application fee payment
- Statement of purpose
- Unofficial admission scores (GRE, GMAT, MAT or MCAT; if required by the department)
- Unofficial transcripts
- Letters of recommendation
- Language scores (non-native English speakers)
Tuition Fee
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International
31460 USD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 31460 USD per year during 24 months. -
National
31460 USD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 31460 USD per year during 24 months. -
In-State
11100 USD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 11100 USD per year during 24 months.
Living costs for Tuscaloosa
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Scholarships Information
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