Music

Music: Introduction

Faculty Affiliation

Music

Degree Programs

Music

MA and PhD

  • Fields:
    • Ethnomusicology;
    • Music and Health Sciences;
    • Music Education;
    • Musicology;
    • Music Theory

Music Performance

MMus

  • Fields:
    • Applied Music and Health;
    • Collaborative Piano;
    • Composition;
    • Conducting;
    • Historical Performance;
    • Instrumental;
    • Jazz;
    • Music Technology and Digital Media;
    • Opera;
    • Piano Pedagogy;
    • Vocal;
    • Vocal Pedagogy

DMA

  • Fields:
    • Composition;
    • Performance

Collaborative Specializations

The following collaborative specializations are available to students in participating degree programs as listed below:

Overview

A taught graduate degree program at the Faculty of Music was inaugurated in 1954. The Faculty of Music currently offers graduate degrees in 17 areas of concentration and fosters the institutional alliance of all areas of advanced music study. Graduate degrees are offered at both master's and doctoral levels in areas such as composition, ethnomusicology, music education, musicology, and performance. Graduates from all areas of the program occupy leading positions in music departments across Canada and around the world.

Contact and Address

Web: music.utoronto.ca
Email: grad.music@utoronto.ca
Telephone: (416) 978-5772
Fax: (416) 946-3353

Graduate Department of Music
University of Toronto
Edward Johnson Building
80 Queen's Park Crescent
Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C5
Canada

Music: Graduate Faculty

Full Members

Albano, Michael - BA,
Bartel, Lee - BA, BMus, MEd, PhD
Bowen, William - BA, BMus, MA, PhD
Britton, Eliot - PhD
Clark, Caryl - BMus, MA, PhD
Copeland, Lyndsey Hoh - PhD
Crow, Jonathan - BMus
Degli Esposti Elisi, Enrico Elisi - DMA
Dolloff, Lori Anne - MusB, PhD
Edwards, Darryl - BEd, BMus, MMus, DMA
Elliott, Robin - BMus, MA, PhD (Acting Associate Dean, Academic and Student Affairs until May 31, 2024)
Gutsche-Miller, Sarah - PhD
Haines, John - BSc, BA, MA, PhD
Halladay, Wallace - BM
Hatzis, Christos - MusM, PhD
Hemmasi, Farzaneh - PhD
Hillman, Jamie - DMA
Hisama, Ellie - PhD (Dean)
Horst, Sandra - BMus, MM
Huang, Aiyun - DMA
Koga, Midori - BMus, AA, MMus, DMA
Komisaruk, Kevin - BMus, MMus, MusDoc
Kulesha, Gary - AA, ARCT, ARCT
Lee, Sherry - BMus, MMus, PhD
Lockhart, Ellen - PhD
Macdonald, Lorna - BME, MMus
MacKay, Gillian - BMus, MMus, DMA
McClelland, Ryan - BMus, MM, PhD (Acting Dean until December 31, 2024; Associate Dean, Academic and Student Affairs)
McFadden, Jeffrey - BMus, MusM, MusDoc (Associate Dean, Performance and Public Events)
Niknafs, Nasim - PhD (Associate Dean, Research)
Packman, Jeff - BS, MA, PhD (Associate Dean, Graduate Education)
Palej, Norbert - BM, MM, DMA
Parker, James - BMus, MM, DMA, ARCT
Patipatanakoon, Annalee - BAMus
Philcox, Steven - BM, MM
Pilzer, Joshua David - BA, MA, PhD
Promane, Terry - BM,
Reynolds, Jeffrey - BMus, BA, MA, MMus, PhD
Rolston, Shauna - BA, MM
Sallmen, Mark - BM, MA, PhD
Sanger-Kippen, Annette Edith - BAMus, PhD
Suzuki, Kotoka - BM, MusD
Taylor, Daniel - MM
Thaut, Corene - PhD
Thaut, Michael - PhD
Vande Moortele, Steven - PhD

Members Emeriti

Aide, William - BSc
Apfelstadt, Hilary - PhD
Beach, David - BA, MusM, PhD
Chan, Ka Nin - BASc, BMus, MMus, MusD
Gould, Elizabeth - BM, MA, MusDoc
Hartenberger, J. Russell - MB, MM, PhD
Johnston, Gregory - MusB, MA, PhD
Kippen, James - BA, PhD
McLean, Don - PhD
Murley, Mike - BFA
Parker, Mary Ann - BA, MM, PhD, ARCT
Patrick, Dennis - MusBac, MMus
Rapoport, Alexander - MMus, MusDoc
Walter, Cameron - BMus, MMus, EdD

Associate Members

Braun, Russell - BMus
Brownell, John - BFA, MMus, MusD
Clements-Cortes, Amy - PhD
Gonzalez Ben, Antia - PhD
Hennigar, Harcus - BA, Bmus
Hetherington, David - BA, ARCT
Jasavala, John - MM
John, Bina - BE, BM, MM, MusD
Johnson, Joseph - MMus
Kuzmenko, Larysa - BMus, MM
Lewis, Jim - MM
McDonagh, Brian - BM
Nediger, Charlotte - MMus
Newsome, Gregory Lee - MMus
Nielsen, Wendy - BMus, MM
Paulin, Nathalie - MMus
Sanborn, Chase - MA,
Sicsic, Nancy - MMus
Sumner, Carolyne - PhD
Vishio, Anton - PhD
Watts, Camille - BMus
Whicher, Monica - BMus
Wong, Lydia - BMus
Ying, Timothy - DMA

Music: Music MA, PhD; Fields: Ethnomusicology and Musicology Courses

Final course offerings may vary. Students should consult the departmental handbook.

Course Code Course Title
MUS1000H
Introduction to Music Research I
MUS1002H
Fieldwork Methods and Practicum
MUS1005H Public Musicology
MUS1006H Public Music Scholarship
MUS1042H
The Ballets Russes
MUS1056H
Approaches to Meaning in the Renaissance Motet
MUS1057H
Performing Politics: Individuality and the Collective in Music and Dance
MUS1058H
Music and Politics
MUS1065H
Music History Pedagogy
MUS1066H
Music and the Racial and Ethnic Imaginations
MUS1069H Remix Music, from Analogue to Digital
MUS1070H Music, Genre, and Variation
MUS1106H Early Music in Canada
MUS1131H Popular Music and the Immaterial: From Spirituality to Virtuality
MUS1132H Community-Engaged Music Archiving
MUS1134H
Music, Capital, Markets, and Industries
MUS1135H Music, Sound, and the Environment
MUS1137H Nationalism in Music and Dance
MUS1140H
Romantic Musings on the Middle Ages
MUS1141H Ethnomusicology of Voice
MUS1142H Sound, Music, and Everyday Life
MUS1144H
Music in the Films of Sir Alfred Hitchcock
MUS1145H Sonic Innovations in Black Popular Musics
MUS1146H Geographies of Opera: Wagner and Puccini
MUS1147H Music After the DJ, from Soundsystems to Serato
MUS1150H Music and Land: Sounds of Belonging and Exclusion
MUS1169H
Listening to Cities: Music, Sound, and Noise in Urban Environments
MUS1234H
Health, Aging and Popular Music
MUS1240H
Diegetic Music in Film
MUS1250H
PhD Seminar
MUS1255H Issues in Music and Philosophy
MUS1258H Keywords in African Sound
MUS1260H
Music and the Enlightenment
MUS1267H
Popular Music and Identity
MUS1270H
Music and East Asian Modernity
MUS1271H
Music and Circulation
MUS1272H
19th-Century Music and Discourses of Nature
MUS1275H
Sound and Music in the Middle East
MUS1276H
Music and Material Culture
MUS1278H
Music and Cultures of Listening in Late Modernity
MUS1279H
Ethnomusicology without Music
MUS1280H
Analysis and its Futures in Ethnomusicology
MUS1281H Ethnomusicology Dissertation Writing Seminar
MUS1990H
MA Major Paper or Project
MUS1997H0
Research in Ethnomusicology
MUS1998H
Individual Reading and Research
MUS1999H0
Research in Musicology
MUS3265H Music Cognition
MUS3266H Public Music Theory

0 Course that may continue over a program. The course is graded when completed.

Music: Music MA, PhD; Field: Music and Health Sciences Courses

Course Code Course Title
MUS4120H Clinical Voice Pedagogy
MUS7110H
Neurosciences of Music: Scientific Foundations, Clinical Translations
MUS7199H0
Special Research Topic in Music and Health
MUS7400H
Introduction to Music and Health Care
MUS7405H
Health in Music Performance
MUS7406H
Music Psychology
MUS7407H0 Clinical Research Practicum
MUS7412H Elementary Improvisation Methods
MUS7415H
Topics in Music and Health
MUS7416H
Topics in Music and Health II
MUS7995Y0
Music and Health Doctoral Research Project
MUS7998H0
Readings in Advanced Topics in Music and Health

0 Course that may continue over a program. The course is graded when completed.

Music: Music MA, PhD; Field: Music Education Courses

Course Code Course Title
MUS2001H
Music in Cultural Perspective
MUS2004H
Music for Children
MUS2010H
Music and Social Movements
MUS2111H
Introduction to Research in Music Education
MUS2112H
Advanced Topics in Research in Music Education
(prerequisite: MUS2111H)
MUS2113H
Musically Queer
MUS2115H
Truth and Reconciliation
MUS2116H Moral Economy of Death in Music, Education, and Pedagogy
MUS2117H Sound Studies and Music Education
MUS2132H
Jazz Education
MUS2151H
Philosophy and Music Education
MUS2160H
Contemporary Perspectives in Music Education
MUS2167H
Curriculum Inquiry
MUS2175H
Teacher Perspectives in Music Education
MUS2176H
Social Psychology of Music
MUS2185H
Curriculum and Instruction in Instrumental Music
MUS2186H
(Un)popular Music Education
MUS2199H0
Special Topics in Music Education
MUS2203H
Development of the Wind Band
MUS2222H
Conducting and Teaching Choral Music I
MUS2223H
Conducting and Teaching Choral Music II
MUS2990Y0
MA Major Essay (Music Education)
MUS2995Y0
Music Education Doctoral Research Project
MUS2998H
Reading in Advanced Topics in Music Education
MUS3231H Conducting for Composers
MUS7406H
Music Psychology
MUS7412H
Elementary Improvisation Methods

0 Course that may continue over a program. The course is graded when completed.

Music: Music MA, PhD; Field: Music Theory Courses

Course Code Course Title
MUS1006H Public Music Scholarship
MUS1250H
PhD Seminar
MUS1990H
MA Major Paper
MUS1998H
Individual Reading and Research
MUS3101H
Seminar in Schenkerian Analysis I
MUS3113H
Symphonic Modernisms, 1900–1925
MUS3232H
Romantic Form
MUS3243H The Music of Elliott Carter
MUS3248H
Current Compositional Practices
MUS3251H Late Schubert
MUS3261H Theory and Analysis of Popular Music
MUS3262H Theoretical Perspectives on Global Musics
MUS3265H Music Cognition
MUS3266H Public Music Theory
MUS3306H
Pedagogy of Music Theory
MUS3316H
Cognitive Perspectives in Music Theory
MUS3403H
Theory and Analysis of Atonal Music
MUS3404H
Extended Tonal Techniques in Twentieth-Century Music
MUS3405H
Topics in the History of Music Theory: 1600–1950
MUS3406H Current Perspectives on Music Theory
MUS3411H Analytical Methodologies
MUS3412H
Theories of Rhythm and Metre
MUS3413H
Music and Drama in Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen
MUS3997H0
Research in Music Theory

0 Course that may continue over a program. The course is graded when completed.

Music: Music Performance MMus; Field: Applied Music and Health Courses

Course Code Course Title
MUS4120H Clinical Voice Pedagogy
MUS4112Y
Clinical Performance Practicum
MUS4115Y
Principles of Clinical Performance Pedagogy
MUS4165Y0 Applied Music for Clinical Practice
MUS4166Y
Performance Project (Credit/No Credit)
MUS4188Y
Public Capstone Presentation (Credit/No Credit)
MUS7110H Neurosciences of Music: Scientific Foundations, Clinical Translations
MUS7400H Introduction to Music and Health Care
MUS7407H0 Clinical Research Practicum
MUS7412H Elementary Improvisation Methods
MUS7415H
Topics in Music and Health Care I
MUS7416H
Topics in Music and Health Care II

0 Course that may continue over a program. The course is graded when completed.

Music: Music Performance MMus, DMA; Field: Composition Courses

Final course offerings may vary. Students should consult the departmental handbook.

Course Code Course Title
MUS3100Y
MMus Advanced Composition I
MUS3101H
Seminar in Schenkerian Analysis I
MUS3102H
Seminar in Schenkerian Analysis II
MUS3105Y
MMus Advanced Composition II
MUS3110H
Classical Orchestration
MUS3114H Counterpoint and Diversity
MUS3115H Counterpoint: A Practical Exercise in Democracy
MUS3116H Learning from the Visual Arts for Composers
MUS3203H
Score Analysis for Composers and Conductors
MUS3204H
Advanced Orchestration
MUS3205H Score Analysis II for Composers and Conductors
(prerequisite: MUS3203H or permission of the instructor)
MUS3211H Composing for Dance
MUS3213H
Composing for Chamber Ensemble
MUS3214H Music and the Machine
MUS3222H
Composing for Film
MUS3223H
Berg
MUS3224H
Sonata Form
MUS3225H
Music of Gubaidulina, Coulthard, and Chen
MUS3228H Classical Form
MUS3229H
The Twentieth-Century Symphony
MUS3230H The Music of Messiaen, Schnittke, and Pärt
MUS3231H Conducting for Composers
MUS3232H
Romantic Form: The Orchestral Music of Berlioz, Mendelssohn, Schumann, and Wagner
MUS3233H Compositional Identity and Practice in the 21st Century
MUS3244H
Music Recording
MUS3258H
Songwriting
(prerequisite: MIDI Orchestration and Improvisation)
MUS3260H The New Polish School of Composition
MUS3300Y
DMA Advanced Composition I
MUS3305Y
DMA Advanced Composition II
MUS3306H
Pedagogy of Music Theory
MUS3403H
Theory and Analysis of Atonal Music
MUS3404H
Extended Tonal Techniques in the Twentieth Century
MUS3409H
Advanced Analysis
MUS3410H
Advanced Analysis: 1850–1910
MUS3412H
Theories of Rhythm and Metre
MUS3415H
Introduction to Operatic Composition
MUS3420H Composing for Percussion
MUS3421H
Composing for Theatre
MUS3800H
Electroacoustic Music
MUS3801H
Advanced Electro-acoustic Composition
MUS3888Y0
DMA Recital of Works
MUS3990Y
MMus Composition Thesis
MUS3998H
Reading and Research in Composition
MUS3999Y0
Research in Composition
MUS4615H
Analysis and Performance Practices of Twentieth-Century Music

0 Course that may continue over a program. The course is graded when completed.

Music: Music Performance MMus, DMA; Field: Performance Courses

Course CodeCourse Title
MUS4120HClinical Voice Pedagogy
MUS4200Y
Critical Approaches to Music History
MUS4210H
Introduction to Music Analysis
MUS4213H
Advanced Repertoire for Singers and Pianists I
MUS4214H
Advanced Repertoire for Singers and Pianists II
MUS4219H
Perspectives on the Business of Music Performance
MUS4220H
Orchestral Conducting I
MUS4221H
Orchestral Conducting II
MUS4222Y
Advanced Orchestral Conducting
MUS4223H
Choral Conducting I
MUS4224H
Choral Conducting II
MUS4225Y
Advanced Choral Conducting
MUS4226H
Wind Ensemble Conducting I
MUS4227H
Wind Ensemble Conducting II
MUS4228H
Advanced Wind Conducting I
MUS4229H
Advanced Wind Conducting II
(prerequisite: MUS4228H)
MUS4231H
Advanced Vocal Repertoire Study I
MUS4232H
Advanced Vocal Repertoire Study II
MUS4234H
Explorations in Performance
MUS4240Y
Introduction to Voice Pedagogy and Vocology
MUS4241HAdvanced Vocal Pedagogy and Vocology
MUS4242Y
Advanced Concepts in Singing and Vocology
MUS4248H
Optimizing the Singing Mind
MUS4270H
Piano Pedagogy: Beginning and Intermediate Levels
MUS4271H
Practicum: Beginning and Intermediate Levels
MUS4272H
Piano Pedagogy: Advanced and University Levels
MUS4273H
Practicum: Advanced and University Levels
MUS4298H
Readings and Research in Performance Studies
MUS4300Y
Seminar in Jazz Studies
MUS4302H
Advanced Ear Training and Harmony
MUS4303H
Rhythm for Improvisation
MUS4310Y
Advanced Jazz Composition and Arranging I
MUS4311Y
Advanced Jazz Composition and Arranging II
MUS4312H
Advanced Jazz Improvisation I
MUS4314H
Advanced Jazz Improvisation 2
MUS4376H
Piano Literature — Baroque and Classical
MUS4420H
Fretboard Harmony: Common Practice Harmony on the Guitar
MUS4425H
Guitar Pedagogy: Method and Practice
MUS4435H
History and Literature of the Guitar
MUS4438H
Improvisation for Strings
MUS4439H
Flute-Guitar Masterclass
MUS4440HFlute-Guitar Masterclass II
MUS4444Y0
Applied Music I
MUS4445Y0
Applied Music II
MUS4502H
Collaborative Piano Techniques I
MUS4506H
Sonata Coaching I
MUS4507H
Sonata Coaching II
MUS4508H
Collaborative Piano Techniques II
(prerequisite: MUS4502H)
MUS4509H
Collaborative Piano Techniques II Vocal
(prerequisite: MUS4502H)
MUS4512H
Operatic Répétiteur
MUS4513YOperatic Repertory
MUS4520H
Advanced Diction Studies I
MUS4521H
Advanced Diction Studies II — Italian
MUS4522HAdvanced Diction Studies III
MUS4523H
Advanced Diction Studies — English
MUS4600H
Performance Practices Before 1800
MUS4606H
Special Topics in Performance Practice
MUS4608H
World Music Ensembles: Practical and Analytical Studies
MUS4610H
Analysis and Performance: Music of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
MUS4613H
Performance Techniques for Hospice Palliative Care
MUS4615H
Analysis and Performance Practices of Twentieth-Century Music
MUS4616H
Topics in Interactive Digital Media and Performance
MUS4617H
The 21st-Century Creative Performer: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry to Performance and Performance Practice
MUS4626HMusic Internship (Credit/No Credit)
MUS4626YMusic Internship (Credit/No Credit)
MUS4700H
Major Ensemble I
MUS4701H
Major Ensemble II
MUS4703H
Major Ensemble IV
MUS4706H
Contemporary Chamber Ensemble I
MUS4707H
Contemporary Chamber Ensemble II
MUS4710H
Chamber Music I
MUS4711H
Chamber Music II
MUS4716H
Chamber Choir III
MUS4720H
Opera I
MUS4721H
Opera II
MUS4722H
Opera III
MUS4723H
Opera IV
MUS4740H
Small Group Jazz Performance I
MUS4741H
Small Group Jazz Performance II
MUS4742H
Small Group Jazz Performance III
MUS4747H
Baroque String Repertoire
MUS4750H
Jazz Orchestra I
MUS4751H
Jazz Orchestra II
MUS4752H
Jazz Orchestra III
MUS4753H
Jazz Orchestra IV
MUS4760H
Vocal Jazz Ensemble I
MUS4761H
Vocal Jazz Ensemble II
MUS4762H
Vocal Jazz Ensemble III
MUS4763H
Vocal Jazz Ensemble IV
MUS4767H
Instrumental Performance Class Woodwinds II
MUS4770H
Oratorio Ensemble I
MUS4771H
Oratorio Ensemble II
MUS4774H
Schola Cantorum I
MUS4775H
Schola Cantorum II
MUS4776H
Collegium Musicum I
MUS4777H
Collegium Musicum I
MUS4785H
Orchestral Studies I
MUS4786H
Orchestral Studies II
MUS4787H
Instrumental Performance Class Woodwinds
MUS4791H
Instrumental Performance — Guitar
MUS4792H
Instrumental Performance — Guitar II
MUS4795H
Piano/Instrumental I
MUS4796H
Piano/Instrumental II
MUS4800Y
DMA Seminar
MUS4815H
Seminar in Performance Pedagogy
MUS4816H
Researching Performance/Performing Research
MUS4819HString Pedagogy Practicum
(corequisite: MUS4815H)
MUS4820H
DMA Study in Masterclass Teaching
MUS4821H
DMA Study in Undergraduate Piano Pedagogy
MUS4822HDMA Study in Applied Studio Teaching
MUS4823HSound and Vision: Techniques in Research-Creation
MUS4838H
Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Interpretive Analysis
MUS4844Y0
Advanced Applied Music I
MUS4845Y0
Advanced Applied Music II
MUS4855Y
DMA Elective Recital
MUS4866Y0
DMA Recital I
MUS4877Y0
DMA Recital II
MUS4888Y0
DMA Recital III
MUS4899H
Research in Performance
MUS4899YResearch in Performance
MUS4900Y
Operatic Studies I
MUS4901Y
Operatic Studies II
MUS4966Y0
Operatic Roles I
MUS4988Y0
Operatic Roles II
MUS5700H
Piano Master Class I
MUS5701H
Piano Master Class II
MUS5704H
Instrumental Performance — Violin and Viola I
MUS5705H
Instrumental Performance — Violin and Viola II
MUS5706H
Instrumental Performance — Violin and Viola III
MUS5714HInstrumental Performance: Cello-Bass I
MUS5715HInstrumental Performance: Cello-Bass II
MUS5716HInstrumental Performance: Cello-Bass III
MUS6666Y0
Recital I
MUS7412H
Elementary Improvisation Methods
MUS8888Y0
Recital II

0 Course that may continue over a program. The course is graded when completed.

Music: Music Performance MMus; Field: Music Technology and Digital Media Courses

Course Code Course Title
MUS3214H Music and the Machine
MUS3610H
Music Entrepreneurship: Music and Cities
MUS3611H
Creative Applications of Technology I
MUS3612H
Creative Applications of Technology II
(prerequisite: MUS3611H)
MUS3613H
Musical Acoustics
(exclusion: TMU127H)
MUS3614H
Sound Recording I
MUS3615H
Sound Recording II
(prerequisites: MUS3611H and MUS3614H)
MUS3616H
Music Mixing and Production
(prerequisites: MUS3612H and MUS3615H)
MUS3617H
Production for Multi-Channel Immersive Audio
(prerequisites: MUS3612H and MUS3616H)
MUS3618H
Studio Orchestration and Arranging
JDM3619H
Digital Media Distribution (Credit/No Credit)
MUS3624H Topics in Interactive Digital Media and Performance
MUS3630H Interactive Music and Sound for Video Games
MUS3632H Video for Intermedia Performance
MUS3666Y0
Music Technology and Digital Media Major Project (Credit/No Credit)
MUS3805H Max/MSP
MUS3806H Computer-Assisted Sound Design and Composition
(prerequisites: MUS3611H, MUS3612H, or equivalent)

0 Course that may continue over a program. Credit is given when the course is completed.