School of Music
Interim Director: Melissa Malde, D.M.A.
Interim Associate Director: Carissa Reddick, Ph.D.
Location: Frasier Hall 108
Telephone: 970.351.2993
Website: arts.unco.edu/music/
Graduate Coordinator: Carissa Reddick, Ph.D.
Faculty: John Adler, D.M.A.; Erik Applegate, M.M.; Jonathan Bellman, D.M.A.; Mary Kathryn Brewer, D.A.; Wesley Broadnax, Ph.D.; Jill Burleson Burgett, D.A.; Brian Casey, D.M.A.; Clelyn Chapin, D.M.A.; Logan Contreras, D.M.A.; Andrew Dahlke, D.M.A.; Janice Dickensheets, D.A.; Ludek Drizhal, M.M.; Paul Elwood, Ph.D.; Daniel Farr, D.M.A.; Lindsay Fulcher, Ph.D.; Jubal Fulks, D.M.A.; Socrates Garcia, D.A.; James Hall, D.M.A.; Lauren Jacobson, M.M.; Deborah Kauffman, D.M.A.; Stephen Kovalcheck, D.M.A.; Reiner Krämer, Ph.D.; Dana B. Landry, M.M.; HeeSeung Lee, Ph.D.; Brian Clay Luedloff, M.F.A.; Melissa Malde, D.M.A.; Joe McAllister, D.A.; Charles Moore, D.M.A.; Sally Murphy, D.M.; Sarah Off-Fixmer, D.M.A.; Michael Oravitz, Ph.D.; Carissa Reddick, Ph.D.; Krissie Weimer, Ph.D.; Leo Welch, D.M.; Lei Weng, D.M.A.; James White, M.A.; Nathaniel G. Wickham, D.M.A.; Shawn Williams, D.A.; William Wilson, M.M.; Drew Zaremba, M.M.; Adam Zukiewicz, D.M.A.
Course(s) Offered (Prefix):
Program(s) Offered:
- Master of Music Degrees:
- Doctoral Degrees
- Graduate Certificate
Approximately 450 music majors annually have made UNC’s School of Music their choice for many reasons. The School of Music offers nationally recognized faculty with specialists on every instrument. There are more than 50 performing ensembles, a number of which are nationally recognized.
The UNC School of Music, with 37 full-time and 20 part-time faculty, is organized into seven program areas, each with an area head. The program areas are Winds and Percussion, Strings, Keyboard, Vocal, Academic Studies, Music Education, and Jazz Studies.
Students may choose from a full range of degrees, bachelor through doctoral programs, and from concentrations in performance, conducting, music education, music theory, jazz studies, and music history. Considerable variety and depth of course offerings are available at UNC.
General objectives of the University of Northern Colorado School of Music are based on service and leadership in the arts at local, state, regional, national and international levels.
An integral unit within the University, the School of Music embraces the role and mission statements of the University of Northern Colorado and has designed its goals and objectives to support and enhance institutional purposes and directions.
The primary goal of the UNC School of Music is to develop skilled and sensitive musicians at the undergraduate, master's and doctoral levels, including performers, conductors, educators, composers, historians, theorists and music administrators. The UNC School of Music maintains a two-fold objective of providing the strongest preparation possible in music education, theory, and history, while encouraging the highest standards of performance.
School of Music graduates are well regarded in the professional world. UNC-prepared educators hold positions at universities, colleges, high schools, junior high and elementary schools throughout the United States and the world. School of Music performance graduates are found in professional symphony orchestras, opera and musical theatre repertory companies, the nation's premier military ensembles, prominent free-lance positions in metropolitan centers, and in professional chamber ensembles and jazz bands.
Curricular Practical Training
UNC School of Music students routinely participate in paid and unpaid teaching and performance opportunities both on and off campus to develop as performers and educators during their degree programs. Although the expectation is not explicit in the credit requirements, practical application and participation is an expected and necessary part of the curriculum for all School of Music students. Students are expected to work with their applied teacher and area faculty to evaluate the applicability of teaching or performance opportunities to their program of study.
Major Musical Organizations
MUSIC THEORY:
MUS 501 18th Century Counterpoint
MUS 502 Harmony and form I
MUS 503 Harmony and Form II
MUS 504 Music Theory Pedagogy
MUS 505 Sixteenth-Century Counterpoint
MUS 603 Analytical Studies in Music
MUS 604 Seminar in Schenker Analysis
MUSIC HISTORY:
MUS 643 Seminar: Medieval Music
MUS 644 Seminar: Music in the Renaissance
MUS 645 Seminar: The Baroque Period
MUS 646 Seminar: The Classical Period
MUS 647 Seminar: The Romantic Period
MUS 649 Music History Pedagogy
MUS 651 Seminar in Music History: Debussy to 1945
MUS 652 Seminar in Music History: 1945 to the Present
MUS 653 Vocal Literature and Styles
MUS 657 Instrumental Literature and Styles
INSTRUMENTAL PERFORMANCE (based on applied area)
MUS 636 Individual Performance in Jazz
MUS 637 Individual Performance in Jazz Composition
MUS 665 Individual Performance in Collaborative Piano
MUS 670 Individual Performance in Voice
MUS 671 Individual Performance in Piano
MUS 673 Individual Performance in Strings, Harp, or Guitar
MUS 674 Individual Performance in Woodwinds
MUS 675 Individual Performance in Brass or Percussion
MUS 677 Individual Performance in Composition
MAJOR MUSICAL ORGANIZATIONS:
MUS 624 Vocal Jazz Ensemble*
MUS 625 Jazz Ensemble*
MUS 667 University Symphony Orchestra
MUS 668 Chamber Orchestra
MUS 680 Mixed Concert Choir
MUS 681 Women's Glee Club
MUS 684 Men’s Glee Club
MUS 688 Concert Band
MUS 690 Symphonic Band
MUS 691 Wind Ensemble
*For Jazz studies students and other students whose primary applied lessons are in jazz, the following Major Musical Organizations apply.
ENSEMBLE BY ADVISEMENT (For Collaborative Piano):
In addition to Major Musical Organizations listed above:
MUS 630 Small Ensembles and Chamber Music
MUS 666 Chamber Choir
MUS 668 Campus String Orchestra
MUS 682 University Singers
MUS 685 Performance in Opera Theatre
Graduate Admission Requirements
Prerequisite to admission to any graduate program in Music is completion of an appropriate undergraduate music degree. Admission will be based on an evaluation of the student's competencies and the content of the undergraduate program.
The student must take the appropriate Advisory Examinations in Music Education, Music History, and Music Theory administered by the School of Music faculty upon the student's arrival on campus. Students with an instrumental concentration may be required to take written examinations on technique in their performance area.
All graduate students enrolling in the School of Music as majors are expected to attend major recitals, concerts, productions, and convocations on a regular basis as part of their course program.
Candidates will take a written comprehensive examination at a time approved by their major advisor.
Master’s Programs. An audition in the major applied area is required of all entering graduate students, and three letters of recommendation are also required of Music Education majors.
Doctoral Program. An audition in the major applied area is required of all entering graduate students. A minimum of two years public school teaching experience is required of D.A. (Music Education) applicants. Three letters of recommendation are required of all applicants.