Music Graduate Degree Program

Description
The Department of Music is designed to provide a sound musical education to students wishing to fulfill themselves as performers, scholars, or teachers, as well as other musical pursuits. To achieve this aim, the music program provides intensive training in mutually dependent areas as related components of a total music experience: history of music, composition, theory, and performance. The Department of Music offers the degrees of:
  • M.A. and Ph.D. in composition, ethnomusicology, musicology and theory
  • M.M. in choral conducting, keyboard (piano), piano accompanying, strings, voice, and woodwinds & brass
  • D.M.A. in choral conducting, keyboard, strings, voice, and horn
    The Department also offers combined M.A./Ph.D. and M.M./D.M.A. programs to qualified students in the relevant disciplines.

    • General Information
    Website http://www.music.ucsb.edu
    Address Department of Music
    University of California, Santa Barbara
    Music Building, Room 1316B
    Santa Barbara, CA 93106-6070
    (USA)
    Phone (805) 893-4603
    Email dholmes@music.ucsb.edu
    Degrees Offered MA, MA/PhD, PhD, MM, MM/DMA, DMA
    Requirements
    • Online application: https://www.graddiv.ucsb.edu/eapp
    • Statement of Purpose, Statement of Personal Achievements/Contributions, and Resume or Curriculum Vitae (CV) with completed coversheets (2 copies)
    • 3 Letters of Recommendation (Submitted online. Please attach required coversheets if submitted via postal mail)
    • Official transcripts from all post-secondary institutions attended (2 copies)
    • GRE General test scores
    • TOEFL scores 550 Paper-Based Test (PBT), 80 Internet-Based Test (IBT) or IELTS Overall Band score of 7 or higher (if applicable)
    • Writing Sample (A Sr. Paper or MA Thesis for those applying to Ethnomusicology, Musicology, or Theory)
    • Live audition and/or audio or video recording for those applying to MM or DMA degrees in Performance depending on emphasis. Please contact the Music Department graduate program office for detailed information
    • The DMA degree application requires a one-hour live audition, which is by invitation after the initial submission of a CD or cassette recording.
    Pre-Application No Pre-Application necessary
    Deadlines Fall Only - January 15, 2010
    Emphases Composition, Ethnomusicology, Musicology, Theory (MA and Ph.D.); Choral Conducting, Keyboard, Strings, Voice, Horn (MM or DMA); Woodwinds and Brass, Piano Accompanying (MM only). Optional Ph.D. emphases in European Medieval Studies; Feminist Studies (Both Ph.D. only)