Master of Music (Field: Piano Pedagogy)

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:

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

  • 0.5 FCE: MUS4210H Introduction to Music Analysis

  • 1.0 FCE: MUS4444Y⁰ Applied Music I

  • 1.0 FCE: MUS4445Y⁰ Applied Music II

  • 0.5 FCE: MUS4270H Piano Pedagogy: Beginning and Intermediate Levels

  • 0.5 FCE: MUS4271H Practicum: Beginning and Intermediate Levels

  • 0.5 FCE: MUS4272H Piano Pedagogy: Advanced and University Levels

  • 0.5 FCE: MUS4273H Practicum: Advanced and University Levels

  • 0.5 FCE selected from:

    • MUS4600H Performance Practices Before 1800

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

    • MUS4615H Analysis and Performance Practices of Twentieth-Century Music

  • 1.0 FCE: electives.

• Two recitals. With approval, one recital may be replaced by a pedagogy project and presentation.

  • 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.