The departments of music offer traditional conservatory-based performance degrees at both the master's and doctoral levels in orchestral instruments, voice, and piano as well as graduate degrees in pedagogy of voice or piano.
The master's level vocal pedagogy degree now has a musical theatre-pop/rock emphasis. Master's and doctoral degrees are offered in musicology, and in composition, which at the master's level has both concert and stage music concentrations. We offer degrees in Sacred Music at the master's and doctoral levels with emphases in choral conducting, organ or composition. The master of arts in teaching provides certification for students who wish to enter teaching as a profession but who did not complete an undergraduate degree in education. A joint master's degree in musicology and library sciences prepares students for careers in libraries, archives, and related institutions.
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Composition (M.M.)
The Master of Music in Composition features two areas of emphasis: stage music and concert music.
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Orchestral Conducting (M.M.)
Conducting students get the chance to observe and assist with at least one Catholic University opera production and at least one Catholic University musical theatre production.
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Performance (M.M.)
The Master of Music in Performance is available in the following tracks: chamber music (piano), orchestral instruments/guitar, piano, vocal accompanying, and voice.
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Sacred Music (M.M.)
The Master of Music degree draws generously on the intersection of culture, history, theology, and music.
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Music Education (M.A.T.)
The Music Education Teaching (M.A.T.) program is committed to developing excellent musicians who teach well.
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Musicology (M.A.)
Drawing upon a distinguished tradition of musicological study, the Master of Arts in Musicology offers you a multitude of research opportunities.
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Music Librarianship (M.A./M.S.L.I.S.)
The Rome School of Music, Drama, and Art offers a joint degree in music and library science.
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Composition (D.M.A.)
The D.M.A. program in Composition is designed to prepare the student for a career either as a university-affiliated composer or as an independent professional.
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Orchestral Conducting (D.M.A.)
Students will study with major orchestral conducting faculty each semester to receive the full benefit of varied interpretative and technical perspectives.
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Pedagogy (D.M.A.)
The Rome School of Music, Drama, and Art offers a Doctor of Musical Arts in Pedagogy in two concentrations: piano and voice.
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Performance (D.M.A.)
The Rome School of Music, Drama, and Art offers a Doctor of Musical Arts in Performance in chamber music (piano), orchestral instruments/guitar, piano, vocal accompanying, and voice.
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Sacred Music (D.M.A.)
The Rome School of Music, Drama, and Art is temporarily not accepting applications or auditions to the D.M.A. in Sacred Music.
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Musicology (Ph.D.)
This program combines the research into the historical and cultural background of music traditionally associated with the discipline with an openness to the many newer trends in musicology and related fields such as music theory, aesthetics, ethnomusicology, cultural history, and the like.
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