Columbia's graduate Music Theory program immerses students in a wide range of current and past scholarship, including analytical approaches to Western concert music and popular music, music cognition and philosophy of music, the history of music theory, and feminist theory and gender and sexuality studies.
Graduate Program Admissions
If you are considering applying to one of Columbia University's DMA or PhD programs in Music, please make sure to read the information below carefully, before contacting anyone in the department. The Department of Music has two graduate programs, PhD in Musicology (in the areas of Ethnomusicology, Historical Musicology or Music Theory) and DMA in Composition. Through a joint program with ...
Graduate Program Overview
Graduate Program Overview. Through the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Department of Music at Columbia University offers one of the top doctoral programs in academic musicology (PhD in Ethnomusicology, Historical Musicology and Music Theory) and Composition (DMA) in the United States. In the past decade, in spite of an often ...
Music, PhD
The Musicology program includes historical musicology, ethnomusicology, and music theory. Application is made to one of these areas, although a student's work is rarely confined within them. Research and teaching focus on a wide range of topics, including music history in the West, non-Western musics and cultures, popular and urban musics, jazz, analytical methods, music cognition, music ...
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Degree Requirements/Timeline
Year. Curriculum/Requirements. 1. Coursework: 15-18 Credits: Seminar in Music Comp I & II w/Lessons and choice of Music Since 1900 I & II (if offered), Music Theory Reqs (2 required), Music Tech Reqs (2 required) Foreign Language Training (if needed) and/or Foreign Language Exams (if applicable) MA Thesis: Preliminary Research. 2.
Music Theory
Music Theory - Columbia University Department of Music Courses: Music Theory
PhD Programs
PhD Programs. The departments and programs listed below offer courses of study leading to the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree. To learn about PhD programs offered by Columbia's professional schools, please visit this page. A doctoral program in the Arts and Sciences is an immersive, full-time enterprise, in which students participate fully in ...
Historical Musicology
The graduate program in Historical Musicology at Columbia is one of the oldest and most distinguished in the United States. It was founded in 1932 by Paul Henry Lang, who set the tone for a broadly interdisciplinary, humanistic approach to musical scholarship that continues today. Since its inception the program has embraced and fostered research in Western music and musical thought of all ...
PhD Program Overview
The PhD program in Ethnomusicology at Columbia University is a transdisciplinary program centered on critical and applied approaches to the study of music and sound as central perspectives on human social life. We emphasize the social scientific tradition within ethnomusicology, and have extensive interdisciplinary dialogues with the fields of anthropology, cultural studies, popular culture ...
Speakers
David E. Cohen is Senior Research Scientist with the research group, "Histories of Music, Mind, and Body" at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt, Germany. His research focuses on the history of music theory from Greek antiquity through the nineteenth century. A PhD graduate of Brandeis University (1993), he has ...
Graduate Programs in Music Theory
Graduate Programs in Music Theory. If you are considering graduate study, the following list organizes schools that offer these degrees in the US, Canada, the UK, and elsewhere. If made available, we have also listed degree programs.
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Some 50 years ago, William J. Mitchell introduced a music theory seminar into the graduate curriculum. When Edward Lippman joined the faculty in 1954, the theoretical offerings expanded to encompass the philosophy and aesthetics of music and the history of theory. But the overriding emphasis in music theory, as present faculty member Jonathan Kramer has written, has been the explanation of ...
The Graduate Program in Ethnomusicology at Columbia University
Program Description: The Graduate Program in Ethnomusicology at Columbia University emhasizes the social scientific tradition within the discipline, and our affiliations with the fields of anthropology, cultural studies, popular culture studies, media studies, history, and sociology.Our emerging focus on modernity, nationalism, indigeneity ...
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As an undergraduate music major interested in graduate study in music theory, I asked Joseph Straus, with whom I was taking an independent study in music theory and feminism, if he knew of any published work in feminist music theory. The only relevant writing he could think of was Susan McClary's "Pitches, Expression, Ideology," from the little-known journal Enclitic (1983). After ...
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I'm a PhD Candidate in Music Theory at Columbia University, musician, and YouTuber. I graduated from the University of Virginia with a B.A. in Music and Physics in 2017 and joined Columbia's Music Theory PhD Program in Fall 2018. My research interests include popular music (especially extreme and progressive metal), rhythm and meter, musical ...
Sound Art
Since the program's founding in 2013, our alumni have gone on to create major installations at world renowned galleries, score feature films, compose for world-class ensembles and pursue PhD research in art practice, composition, music theory, computer music, and music perception.
Music, Ph.D.
The Music program from Columbia University incorporates three areas: historical musicology, ethnomusicology, and music theory.
Music Theory
In the music theory emphasis of the Master of Arts in Music, you will attain advanced proficiency in the analysis of music; gain familiarity with recent scholarship on diverse topics in music theory; and experience in independent, critically engaged research and writing projects in music theory and analysis.
Music Theory
Music Theory. Theories of music describe ways that listeners, composers, and performers conceive of the elements of their art. The study of theory, then, informs all aspects of musical learning at UBC. Our faculty includes internationally known researchers who contribute to theories and analysis of modernist and contemporary art music, theories ...
PhD in Music
The UBC School of Music offers a PhD in Music with an emphasis on Musicology, Music Theory, or Ethnomusicology. Learn more.
Doctor of Philosophy in Music, Emphasis Theory (PhD)
Theories of music describe ways that listeners, composers, and performers conceive of the elements of their art. Study of theory, then, informs all aspects of musical learning at UBC. Our faculty include internationally known researchers who contribute to theories of rhythm and meter, music cognition, computer applications, music theory pedagogy, and the analysis of a diverse range of recent ...
Music Theory, Ph.D.
Theories of music describe ways that listeners, composers, and performers conceive of the elements of their art. We offer a Music Theory degree at the University of British Columbia.
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The program doesn't just teach theory—it also provides hands-on experiential learning through projects, internships, and networking opportunities. The curriculum constantly evolves to keep pace with the latest developments in technology and business, ensuring that students graduate with the skills and knowledge they need to excel in their ...
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James is a Mathematics master student in the Faculty of Science. Three research keywords: Number Theory, Elliptic Curves, Fermat Equations (British Columbia Graduate Scholarship)
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Columbia's graduate Music Theory program immerses students in a wide range of current and past scholarship, including analytical approaches to Western concert music and popular music, music cognition and philosophy of music, the history of music theory, and feminist theory and gender and sexuality studies.
If you are considering applying to one of Columbia University's DMA or PhD programs in Music, please make sure to read the information below carefully, before contacting anyone in the department. The Department of Music has two graduate programs, PhD in Musicology (in the areas of Ethnomusicology, Historical Musicology or Music Theory) and DMA in Composition. Through a joint program with ...
Graduate Program Overview. Through the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Department of Music at Columbia University offers one of the top doctoral programs in academic musicology (PhD in Ethnomusicology, Historical Musicology and Music Theory) and Composition (DMA) in the United States. In the past decade, in spite of an often ...
The Musicology program includes historical musicology, ethnomusicology, and music theory. Application is made to one of these areas, although a student's work is rarely confined within them. Research and teaching focus on a wide range of topics, including music history in the West, non-Western musics and cultures, popular and urban musics, jazz, analytical methods, music cognition, music ...
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Year. Curriculum/Requirements. 1. Coursework: 15-18 Credits: Seminar in Music Comp I & II w/Lessons and choice of Music Since 1900 I & II (if offered), Music Theory Reqs (2 required), Music Tech Reqs (2 required) Foreign Language Training (if needed) and/or Foreign Language Exams (if applicable) MA Thesis: Preliminary Research. 2.
Music Theory - Columbia University Department of Music Courses: Music Theory
PhD Programs. The departments and programs listed below offer courses of study leading to the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree. To learn about PhD programs offered by Columbia's professional schools, please visit this page. A doctoral program in the Arts and Sciences is an immersive, full-time enterprise, in which students participate fully in ...
The graduate program in Historical Musicology at Columbia is one of the oldest and most distinguished in the United States. It was founded in 1932 by Paul Henry Lang, who set the tone for a broadly interdisciplinary, humanistic approach to musical scholarship that continues today. Since its inception the program has embraced and fostered research in Western music and musical thought of all ...
The PhD program in Ethnomusicology at Columbia University is a transdisciplinary program centered on critical and applied approaches to the study of music and sound as central perspectives on human social life. We emphasize the social scientific tradition within ethnomusicology, and have extensive interdisciplinary dialogues with the fields of anthropology, cultural studies, popular culture ...
David E. Cohen is Senior Research Scientist with the research group, "Histories of Music, Mind, and Body" at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt, Germany. His research focuses on the history of music theory from Greek antiquity through the nineteenth century. A PhD graduate of Brandeis University (1993), he has ...
Graduate Programs in Music Theory. If you are considering graduate study, the following list organizes schools that offer these degrees in the US, Canada, the UK, and elsewhere. If made available, we have also listed degree programs.
Some 50 years ago, William J. Mitchell introduced a music theory seminar into the graduate curriculum. When Edward Lippman joined the faculty in 1954, the theoretical offerings expanded to encompass the philosophy and aesthetics of music and the history of theory. But the overriding emphasis in music theory, as present faculty member Jonathan Kramer has written, has been the explanation of ...
Program Description: The Graduate Program in Ethnomusicology at Columbia University emhasizes the social scientific tradition within the discipline, and our affiliations with the fields of anthropology, cultural studies, popular culture studies, media studies, history, and sociology.Our emerging focus on modernity, nationalism, indigeneity ...
As an undergraduate music major interested in graduate study in music theory, I asked Joseph Straus, with whom I was taking an independent study in music theory and feminism, if he knew of any published work in feminist music theory. The only relevant writing he could think of was Susan McClary's "Pitches, Expression, Ideology," from the little-known journal Enclitic (1983). After ...
I'm a PhD Candidate in Music Theory at Columbia University, musician, and YouTuber. I graduated from the University of Virginia with a B.A. in Music and Physics in 2017 and joined Columbia's Music Theory PhD Program in Fall 2018. My research interests include popular music (especially extreme and progressive metal), rhythm and meter, musical ...
Since the program's founding in 2013, our alumni have gone on to create major installations at world renowned galleries, score feature films, compose for world-class ensembles and pursue PhD research in art practice, composition, music theory, computer music, and music perception.
The Music program from Columbia University incorporates three areas: historical musicology, ethnomusicology, and music theory.
In the music theory emphasis of the Master of Arts in Music, you will attain advanced proficiency in the analysis of music; gain familiarity with recent scholarship on diverse topics in music theory; and experience in independent, critically engaged research and writing projects in music theory and analysis.
Music Theory. Theories of music describe ways that listeners, composers, and performers conceive of the elements of their art. The study of theory, then, informs all aspects of musical learning at UBC. Our faculty includes internationally known researchers who contribute to theories and analysis of modernist and contemporary art music, theories ...
The UBC School of Music offers a PhD in Music with an emphasis on Musicology, Music Theory, or Ethnomusicology. Learn more.
Theories of music describe ways that listeners, composers, and performers conceive of the elements of their art. Study of theory, then, informs all aspects of musical learning at UBC. Our faculty include internationally known researchers who contribute to theories of rhythm and meter, music cognition, computer applications, music theory pedagogy, and the analysis of a diverse range of recent ...
Theories of music describe ways that listeners, composers, and performers conceive of the elements of their art. We offer a Music Theory degree at the University of British Columbia.
October 12, 2021: Page 1 . UNCG School of Music . Practice Exam for the Graduate Diagnostic Exam in Music Theory . Question A. Chord identification
The program doesn't just teach theory—it also provides hands-on experiential learning through projects, internships, and networking opportunities. The curriculum constantly evolves to keep pace with the latest developments in technology and business, ensuring that students graduate with the skills and knowledge they need to excel in their ...
James is a Mathematics master student in the Faculty of Science. Three research keywords: Number Theory, Elliptic Curves, Fermat Equations (British Columbia Graduate Scholarship)