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Conducting
This degree program offers professional
training in the four major conducting areas -- choral, musical
drama (opera and musical theater), orchestral,
and wind. Not more than one student will be admitted
each year in each area, and each student will be awarded a conducting
assistantship. Major-field coursework includes both applied conducting
(score reading, score analysis, and conducting with major ensembles)
and three literature courses in the major and minor conducting areas.
In addition to studying primarily with a major area professor, the student
studies privately with professors in two minor conducting areas. There
is a two-year residency requirement. Each student must conduct a complete
program in the major area and a particular program in each minor area
in separate recitals.
Applicants are required to submit a list of compositions studied for
conducting during the past three years, indicating those works conducted
in public performances. The list may also include works studied beyond
the three year minimum.
Applicants also are required to submit
an initial screening videotape of a performance or rehearsal they conducted
recently. This tape should be submitted before January 30. The tape
will be evaluated and selected candidates will be invited to a live
audition. This in-person audition includes an interview, live conducting
in the major area, and performance in the principal performing area.
Music drama candidates must audition on piano and demonstrate proficiency
equivalent to that required of a senior undergraduate performance major
at Ithaca College.
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551-65200
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Bibliography and Research in Music
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3
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551-66400
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Analytical Techniques
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3
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551-xxxxx
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Three of the following major-field literature courses: Symphony,
History and Literature of Opera, Choral Literature and Performance
Practice, or Wind Literature and
Performance Practice.
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7-8
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551-xxxxx
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Electives in music, including at least one of the following courses:
Stylistic Analysis I, II, or III; Intro to Composition; Composition;
Choral Arranging; or Orchestration
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9-14
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552-63xxx
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Private Conducting (major area -- 4; minor area -- 2)
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6
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554-61100
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Recital (major -- 2; minor -- 0.5, 0.5)
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3
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556-6xxxx
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Performance (principal performing instrument; may be exempted
through audition)
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0-4
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Total
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36
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