Training
•Bullet: Core curriculum covers Theory I-IV, music history, a research seminar, aural skills, and keyboard harmony/performance
•Bullet: Minimum of four upper-level electives required, including at least 3 credits in musicology
•Bullet: Faculty specializations span musicology, ethnomusicology, composition, and music technology, including Program Director Michael Lister and Assistant Professor Thomas Wilson, who teaches Music Technology and Game Audio
•Bullet: Builds on the legacy of the department's Electronic Music Studio and The Free Music Store, founded by longtime faculty composer Joel Chadabe
Performance & Productions
•Bullet: Two semesters of ensemble performance required, chosen from chamber ensembles, marching band, percussion ensemble, pep band, jazz ensemble, symphony orchestra, symphonic band, chorale, or chamber singers
•Bullet: Practice rooms, rehearsal spaces, the department library, and two concert halls support daily music-making
•Bullet: Chamber Singers tour internationally performing standard and world repertoire under faculty direction
Notable Alumni
•Bullet: Martha Mooke — pioneering electric five-string violist who has toured with Barbra Streisand and Peter Gabriel, performed with Elton John and — with her Scorchio Quartet — David Bowie, and appeared on The Tonight Show and The David Letterman Show
•Bullet: Michael Lanci — composer whose protest songs won the American Prize, with commissions from the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and a doctorate in composition from the University of Cincinnati
•Bullet: Warren Burt — experimental composer and instrument builder who helped establish the music department at Australia's La Trobe University
•Bullet: Robert Gluck — Professor Emeritus and author of books on Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi Band and Miles Davis's Lost Quintet, both published by University of Chicago Press
Degree Flexibility
•Bullet: Accelerated BA + MS in Information Science option completes both degrees in five years, with up to 12 shared credits counted at undergraduate rates
