Master of Music (Field: Vocal 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 8.0 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

  • 0.5 FCE selected from:

    • MUS4213H Advanced Repertoire for Singers and Pianists I

    • MUS4231H Advanced Vocal Repertoire Study I

  • 1.0 FCE: MUS4240Y Introduction to Voice Pedagogy and Vocology

  • 1.0 FCE: MUS4241Y Advanced Vocal Pedagogy and Vocology

  • 0.5 FCE: MUS4248H Optimizing the Singing Mind

  • 1.0 FCE: MUS4444Y⁰ Applied Music I

  • 1.0 FCE: MUS4445Y⁰ Applied Music II

  • 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

  • 0.5 FCE: MUS7406H Music Psychology

  • 0.5 FCE: elective chosen from a list of courses approved by the department.

• Two recitals:

  • 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.