Related Field Course Work and Exam in Music History for Doctoral Students

Course Work: MUMH 5020 (3 hours) is required; the student will choose 9 additional hours, 6 hours of which must be at the 6000 level. Three of the 9 hours must be from a class devoted to a topic from before 1750 (MUMH 5331, MUMH 5332, MUMH 5333, MUMH 6020, MUMH 6030 or MUMH 6740). The remaining 6 hours may be chosen from any of the following: MUMH 5110, MUMH 5331, MUMH 5332, MUMH 5333, MUMH 5341, MUMH 5342, MUMH 5343, MUMH 5430, MUMH 5440, MUMH 5771, MUMH 6020, MUMH 6030, MUMH 6080, MUMH 6160, MUMH 6740, MUMH 6750, MUMH 6760 and MUMH 6770. Classes used to fulfill the musicology component may not be duplicated in the related field if musicology is the related field of choice.

Exam:
Well in advance of the exam the student must ask one musicology professor to serve as the related-field adviser and another to serve as a second adviser. The exam will require students to write three one-hour essays. The related-field and second advisers will make up and grade the exam.

Approximately six weeks before the exam the student will receive two possible topics for each essay. Two days before the exam the related-field adviser will communicate to the student which of each pair of possibilities will appear on the exam and provide the student with specific prompts for each essay. The student may bring scores to the exam. The exam is to be handwritten, but the student does not have to write in blue books.

1. The first essay will be on a topic that concerns methodology. The topic will most likely be taken from MUMH 5020, which is required for the related field. It may also be taken from another course, subject to the approval of area faculty.

2. The second part of the exam will require the student to write two essays that focus on central repertory. The student's advisers will assign two pieces from before 1750 and two from after 1750, but, as stated above, the student will write on only one of each pair.

Students will prepare for this part of the exam by acquiring a thorough knowledge of the assigned pieces and the English-language literature on them. The related-field and second advisers will be careful to assign pieces on which there is a significant amount of published English-language research.

(Revised 6 March 2011)