Master of Music (Field: Historical Performance)

Minimum Admission Requirements

• Applicants are admitted under the General Regulations of the School of Graduate Studies. Applicants must also satisfy the Faculty of Music's additional admission requirements stated below.

• Applicants to the MMus program must hold a Bachelor of Music degree in the area of specialization from the University of Toronto with an average standing of mid-B or better over the final two years or an equivalent program and standing from another recognized university.

• Selected applicants must pass an audition.

• Two letters of reference commenting on the applicant's music performance ability, academic ability, and professional promise.

Program Requirements

• Coursework. Students must complete 7.0 full-course equivalents (FCEs) as follows:

  • 5.0 FCEs must include:

    • 1.0 FCE: MUS4200Y Critical Approaches to Music History, normally taken in Year 1

    • 2.0 FCEs: MUS4444Y⁰ Applied Music I and MUS4445Y⁰ Applied Music II

    • 0.5 FCE selected from:

      • MUS4600H Performance Practices Before 1800

      • MUS4606H Special Topics in Performance Practice

      • MUS4610H Analysis and Performance: Music of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

      • MUS4615H Analysis and Performance Practices of Twentieth-Century Music

    • 0.5 FCE: MUS4210H Introduction to Music Analysis

    • 1.0 FCE in large ensembles:

      • MUS4774H Schola Cantorum I and MUS4775H Schola Cantorum II or

      • MUS4776H Collegium Musicum I and MUS4777H Collegium Musicum II

  • 2.0 elective FCEs from a specified list approved by the department.

• Two recitals, one in each year. Recitals may include a chamber component with the approval of the department.

  • 1.0 FCE: MUS6666Y⁰ Recital I

  • 1.0 FCE: MUS8888Y⁰ Recital II.

Program Length

6 sessions full-time (typical registration sequence: F/W/S/F/W/S)

Time Limit

3 years full-time

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