School of Music
http://libarts.wsu.edu/music/
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Degree offered
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M.A.
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Faculty working with students
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28
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Students
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18
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Students receiving assistantships or
scholarships:
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50%
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Priority deadline
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Fall - January 10
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Spring - July 1
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Tests required
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TOEFL or IELTS (international
only)
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Admission Requirements
For admission, the School of Music requires
an audition, official transcripts, and three
letters of recommendation. In addition, please
submit: for the composition emphasis, a
composition portfolio with recordings; for the
music education emphasis, your written philosophy
of teaching; performance (including conducting)
requires a more in-depth audition. Contact the
music program for details. Once admitted to WSU,
each student takes assessments in music theory,
history, and keyboard skills, and auditions for
music ensembles during the week prior to the
first day of classes.
Program Description
The music program in the School of
Music offers the degree of master of arts in
music, which may be earned through study in the
areas of music education, composition, music
history and literature, conducting, and
performance studies. Four emphases are available
(selection of an emphasis is not required,
however). The emphasis in music education
provides advanced studies for experienced or
prospective teachers. Students wishing to teach
at the college level or intending to enter such
professions as music performance, conducting,
composing, and arranging select performance and
composition areas of emphasis. Students electing
the jazz emphasis focus on one or more aspects of
jazz music (performance, composition, arranging,
pedagogy, or history, for example) in preparation
for careers in jazz. The music program offers
both thesis and non-thesis options, designed
according to the goals of the student.
Composition emphasis students must complete the
thesis option. The graduate program in music is
located in Kimbrough Hall and includes a
state-of-the-art recording studio, two Fazioli
grand pianos, a Holtkamp tracker organ, 33
practice rooms with new Kawai pianos, an
electronic piano/music computer lab with 17
stations, a listening library with 1,400 complete
scores and 20,000 recordings, and 400- and
100-seat concert halls. Concerts are also held in
the 700-seat auditorium in nearby Bryan Hall,
which houses a 47-rank Schantz organ.
Faculty Interests
and Course Information
Contact
Information
Graduate Coordinator in
Music
School of Music
Washington State University
PO Box 645300
Pullman, WA 99164-5300
Telephone: 509-335-3898
Fax: 509-335-4245
E-mail: music@wsu.edu
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