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Conducting Concentration

In this option, conducting is the primary performing medium. The following differences from the Vocal/Instrumental Concentration apply:

• A conducting student must audition before admission, study conducting in an applied music lesson, and must conduct a full-length recital.
• Instead of private study on an instrument or voice, the student takes private conducting lessons covering repertoire preparation and selection, conducting technique, score and clef reading, score preparation, performance traditions and practice, etc.
• A special section of Instrumental/Vocal Literature (Music 550) focuses on music literature appropriate to the conductor's field (i.e., orchestral conductors would study "Orchestral Literature")
• Usually during the second year of study, graduate conducting students are assigned as conducting assistant to a large ensemble, enroll in that large ensemble for credit, and serve as conducting assistant for that ensemble.

1. Core Courses (15 hours)
   • Music 563 - Applied Conducting (4,4) ^{see note 1}
   • Music 500r - Graduate Ensemble (1,1) ^{see note 2}
   • Music 550 - Instrument Literature (3)
   • Music 598r - Recital (2) ^{see note 3}
2. Music History and Literature (6 hours)
   • Music 502 - Seminar in Music History (3) required
   • Music 511 - Music before 1600 (3)
   • Music 512 - Music from 1600 to 1750 (3)
   • Music 513 - Music from 1725 to 1825 (3)
   • Music 514 - Nineteenth-Century Music (3)
   • Music 515 - Twentieth-Century Music (3)
3. Music Theory, Composition and Analysis (6 hours)
   • Music 505 - Seminar in Music Theory (3)
   • Music 507 - Advanced Analysis (3)
4. Approved Electives (6 hours)
   • Music 528 - Advanced Conducting (2)
   • Music 500r - Major ensemble (as conducting assistant)
   • Any other two hours of music electives.