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PHILLIP AND PATRICIA FROST
SCHOOL OF MUSIC - GRADUATE
www.music.miami.edu
DOCTOR OF MUSICAL ARTS (DMA)
COURSE WORK
COGNATES
The purpose of the Doctor of Musical Arts is to train the
most promising musicians at the highest musical and intellectual
level for prominent careers in their field. The degree
stresses excellence in performance, composition, scholarship,
and teaching. By its nature, the Doctor of Musical Arts
provides opportunities for students with proven accomplishment
to prepare themselves for the professorship.
For the Doctor of Musical Arts in Performance, Keyboard Performance
and Pedagogy, Composition, Jazz Composition, Jazz Performance,
and Conducting, the candidate must meet all the general requirements
for the Ph.D. degree with respect to residence, research tool
requirements, total minimum hours, and written and oral examinations.
The major differences between the D.M.A. and the Ph.D. are
the creative efforts and performance that replace the dissertation
requirements in the D.M.A. degree program. There will also
be some variation in the research tool requirements in order
that they apply in a more practical way to the needs of students.
ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS
Selection of student based on:
- Graduate Record Examination (Aptitude portion)
- Academic record
- Recommendations
- Personal audition (Performance Majors); preliminary video
tape required for instrumental conducting
- Samples of musical composition (Composition Majors)
- Writing Sample (major paper or thesis; Choral Conducting
and Vocal Performance Majors)
PLACEMENT EXAMINATIONS
During the three days before registration, all new doctoral
students are required to take examinations in music theory,
and music history and literature, which will serve as placement
tests or prerequisites for entrance to graduate courses. Courses
to remedy deficiencies indicated by these examinations must
be taken at the earliest opportunity.
DOCTORAL COMMITTEE
The committee is appointed when the student is formally admitted
to a doctoral program. It will consist of a minimum of four
members, three from the area of concentration and a minimum
of one from the areas of Music Theory, Musicology, or Music
Education (an approved member from a department outside of
the Frost School of Music is possible). A committee may be
expanded beyond the minimum number of members based on the
needs of the student to a maximum of six. Of these, three
(including the committee chairman) shall be regular members
of the Graduate Faculty.
Responsibilities of the committee shall include the following:
- Overseeing all of the students work prior to admission
to candidacy, including academic program planning and advising
as to recital repertoire.
- Advising the student regarding relevant research competencies
(tools) and ensuring that the student demonstrates these
competencies prior to admission to candidacy.
- Adjudging the quality of the student’s recitals,
pedagogy presentations or compositions.
- Overseeing the doctoral essay or lecture recital, including
approval of the topic and proposal, supervision of the writing
of the essay or lecture recital, assessment of the quality
of the final essay or lecture recital, and the quality of
the final essay defense. (In cases where special faculty
expertise is needed for a particular essay topic, changes
in membership of the doctoral committee may be made. Membership
of the essay committee is recommended by the department
or program concerned, and approved and appointed by the
Dean of the Graduate School.)
RESEARCH TOOL REQUIREMENTS
The candidate will be required to show competency in the
research tools recommended by the student's doctoral committee,
which is responsible for ensuring that the tools are relevant
to the student and that procedures for demonstration of the
competencies are appropriate. Research tools must be demonstrated
and documented prior to admission to candidacy.
COURSE WORK
(Extent of course work is determined by Placement Examinations,
however, candidate must complete a minimum of 42 credit hours)
COGNATES
Doctor of Musical Arts students may select an additional
formal area of study through the cognate option. The Departments
in which the cognate resides administers the cognate. Students
must apply to the cognate Department for admission. The admission
process may include an audition, interview, portfolio, or
testing as determined by the cognate Department. Students
must complete all requirements specified for a cognate to
be recognized as having completed the cognate. Otherwise,
the credits will be considered electives. No credits required
in the DMA program can apply to the cognate. Any overlap will
require approved course substitutions within either the DMA
program or the cognate as determined to be most appropriate
by the Dean of Graduate Studies.
Procedures for Entering a Cognate
1. Review the cognates offered on the Graduate Studies
web site.
2. Select the cognate you would like to pursue.
3. Contact the Department in which the cognate resides and
obtain written approval of your entrance. A simple e-mail
by the faculty member in charge of the cognate to the Graduate
Studies Office would suffice.
4. Visit the Graduate Studies Office to formally sign-up
for the cognate and to obtain a copy of the Academic Program
Record (APR) for the cognate.
DMA-ACCOMPANYING/CHAMBER MUSIC (MKPA)
Cognate (20% of total, 12 credits)
DMA-CHORAL CONDUCTING (MCDC)
Cognate/Electives (20% of total, 12 credits)
DMA-COMPOSITION (MTC)
Cognate/Electives (20% of total, 12 credits)
DMA-INSTRUMENTAL CONDUCTING (MCDI)
Cognate/Electives (20% of total, 12 credits)
DMA-INSTRUMENTAL PERFORMANCE (MIP)
Cognate/Electives (20% of total, 12 credits)
DMA-JAZZ COMPOSITION (MSJC)
Cognate/Electives (20% of total, 12 credits)
DMA-JAZZ PERFORMANCE (MSJI or MSJV)
Cognate/Electives (20% of total, 12 credits)
DMA-KEYBOARD PERFORMANCE AND PEDAGOGY
(KPED)
Cognate/Electives (20% of total, 12 credits)
DMA-MULTIPLE WOODWINDS (MIPW)
Cognate/Electives (20% of total, 12 credits)
DMA-PIANO PERFORMANCE (MKP)
Cognate (20% of total, 12 credits)
DMA-VOCAL PEDAGOGY (VPED)
Cognate/Electives (20% of total, 12 credits)
DMA-VOCAL PERFORMANCE (MVP)
Cognate/Electives (20% of total, 12 credits)
ACCOMPANYING/CHAMBER MUSIC
CONDUCTING: Choral
Conducting: Instrumental
Higher Education
Instrumental Performance
Jazz Performance
Keyboard Pedagogy
Music Business
Music Education
Music Technology
Music Theory
Enrollment in this cognate waives any other MTC requirements
for the degree.
Musicology
Vocal Pedagogy (12 credits)
Approved courses in pedagogy, vocal diction, or related courses.
Vocal Performance
Vocal Accompanying
QUALIFYING EXAMINATION
To be taken upon completion of approximately 18 credit hours
of work. Exams in the areas of
- Musicology;
- Music Theory-Composition; and
- Music Education (If required by the program).
Performance and jazz performance majors must present a qualifying
recital during the first semester in residence.
COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION
To be taken in major area (except performance) after completion
of approximately 36 credit hours. Examination may be oral
or written.
ADMISSION TO CANDIDACY
Doctoral students are admitted to candidacy after completing
research tool requirements, qualifying and comprehensive examinations.
No student may receive the degree in the same semester or
summer session in which he or she is admitted to candidacy.
PERFORMANCE AND CREATIVE REQUIREMENTS
D.M.A. students in performance, jazz performance, or keyboard
performance and pedagogy may present one recital before the
qualifying written examination (provided they have passed
their qualifying recital). Before the second or third, depending
upon program, recital they must have passed the Qualifying
Examinations and removed all reservations for the written
examinations in music theory, musicology, and music education,
as well as having presented a proposal for the doctoral essay
to their committee. Before the final recital the student must
be admitted to candidacy (this requirement includes the completion
of both the qualifying examination and research tool subjects).
All recitals are to be presented during either Fall or Spring
semesters.
Performance Majors
Students accepted in the program must present three full-length
solo recitals. In addition, instrumentalists are expected
to perform a concerto with orchestra or a chamber music recital.
Vocalists are expected to execute one or more substantial
roles in a large scale work, e.g., opera or oratorio in addition
to the solo recitals. Students majoring in accompanying and
chamber music will present one solo recital, one chamber music
recital, and three accompanying recitals. For Keyboard Performance
and Pedagogy, an approved combination of recitals and pedagogy
presentations is required.
Jazz Performance Majors
Students must present three full-length recitals
Conducting Majors (Choral)
No less than two approved full recitals shall be presented
by each candidate.
Conducting Majors (Instrumental)
Three approved public recitals (or the equivalent) with suitable
performing groups must be given during the period of residency
and prior to the oral examination.
Composition Majors
- The candidate will be required to compose a piece of
major proportions for large ensemble. In addition, no less
than three works for any instrumental or vocal group combination
will be required during the period of residency.
- A formal written analysis of the major work will be required.
This will serve as the Doctoral Essay for composition majors.
- Some form of a recital or public performance of the candidate’s
compositions will be required. This requirement could be
fulfilled with a recital that would include representative
works composed during the student’s residence.
By means of a written doctoral essay or a lecture recital
all D.M.A. candidates will be expected to give evidence of
their ability to make an original scholarly investigation
and present its results in an articulate manner.
Final Oral Examination (administered during Fall and Spring
semesters only): defense of the creative or recreative work,
and the written essay or lecture recital.
LECTURE RECITAL
The lecture recital is a major presentation whose content
must pertain to musical performance, musical analysis, performance
practice, comparative editions, interpretation, musical style,
or other issues that directly relate to a central theme of
music performance. A written document of the lecture recital
must be submitted to the Graduate School following procedures
similar to those of the Doctoral Essay.
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