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Our faculty offer a broad array of research specializations that include performance and analysis, theories of rhythm and meter, music-text relations, intertextuality, jazz theory and analysis, popular music analysis, analytical approaches to world music, mathematical approaches and transformational theory. Â鶹ÒùÔº also benefit from guest presentations and teaching by scholars such as Kofi Agawu, Brian Alegant, Poundie Burstein, Suzannah Clark, Richard Cohn, Ian Quinn, Grace Leslie, Scott Murphy and René Rusch.Ìý

The Master’s in Music Theory equips students for original research and theory pedagogy and prepares them for advanced doctoral study. We also offer anÌýUndergraduate Certificate in Music TheoryÌýfor currently enrolled music majors and aÌýGraduate Certificate in Music TheoryÌýfor currently enrolled master’s andÌýdoctoral students.Ìý

Our graduates have won awards for study at leading Ph.D. programs in North America. Alumni from the master’s program have earned faculty positions at the Eastman School of Music, University of Massachusetts-Amherst,ÌýCleveland InstituteÌýof Music, Wake Forest University, Harvard University, James Madison University, Montana State University,ÌýUniversity of Northern Colorado and other institutions.

ÌýÌýMusicology + music theory colloquium seriesÌý