Jazz

The jazz minor focuses on the study of the history, theory, and performance of jazz. In addition, students may be introduced to musical styles that have had profound influences on this uniquely American art form: folk and popular musics of Africa, Europe, and the United States and Western classical music. The jazz minor is limited to students with sufficient ability on their instruments to pass auditions for entry into the jazz ensembles. The required courses for the minor in jazz are the following:

Detailed information about the music majors and minors may be obtained from the Music Department Office.

Honors

Honors are conferred by vote of the music faculty. B.A. students may receive Honors for the senior exit seminar, for the senior project (thesis and/or recital), or for music course work in general, particularly in the core curriculum and required music courses. Normally, only students who have demonstrated a broad and well-balanced preparation and who have received Honors in two of the three areas will be considered for Honors in the major, which appear on the diploma. B.A. students who wish to be considered for Honors in the major are advised to prepare a senior project. In rare instances, students who receive Honors in all three areas may be awarded Highest Honors in the major. B.M. students who receive Honors in the senior recital, excellent evaluations in performing courses, and very good to excellent evaluations in non-performance music courses or the senior exit seminar will be considered for Honors or Highest Honors in the major.

Transfer Students

The Music Department encourages transfer students to take the core curriculum placement examination and seek academic counseling before transfer (a sample of the exam can be viewed at http://music.ucsc.edu). Transfer students with some background in music theory normally test into course 14 or into 30A/L, which is only offered fall quarter. Students who test into course 13 or 14 take one or both of these courses in their first year in order to prepare to enroll in course 30A/L the following fall. Transfer students who have completed all of their general education requirements and who test into course 30A/L upon transfer may be able to complete the music major in two years.

B.A. transfer students should note that upon completion of course 100A, they need to perform on a musical instrument or voice at an upper-intermediate level. Prospective students wishing to have their performance skill level assessed by faculty in preparation for entry to the program may send a tape for faculty review.

B.M. transfer students should prepare to audition in the fall quarter after enrollment. (For audition requirements, see the B.M. section above.) In certain cases, some or all of the applied music requirement may be waived based on prior course work.

B.M. Sample Study Planner for Transfer Students
Concentrating in an Instrument

This plan assumes that all general education requirements have been met. The music core curriculum placement examination generally places junior transfer students in Music 30A/L (which is only offered during fall quarter).

Students should check with the department office for the most up-to-date course schedules and program planning advice, since courses are not necessarily taught in the same quarters each academic year. Numbers of quarter credits are in parentheses.

A transfer student concentrating in voice could enroll in Italian 1 and German 1 in the fall and winter quarters, respectively, of the junior year, and in French 1 in the spring quarter of the senior year. Such a transfer student would complete any desired electives prior to arrival at UCSC and/or in Summer Session. However, transfer students should try to satisfy as many of the language requirements as possible before entering the program.

Individual Instruction

Lessons in the instruments listed below are available on a fee basis and by audition with the instructor. Concurrent enrollment in an ensemble on the same instrument (or voice) is required.

Courses 61, 62, and 161 carry partial course credit. Each quarter of enrollment in course 61 is equivalent to 2 credits; each quarter of enrollment in course 62 or 161 is equivalent to 3 credits. Course 162, open to advanced students only, carries 5 credits.

Class instruction for partial credit (courses 60 and 63) is available on some instruments but may not be used to fulfill the individual lesson requirements for the major.

Bass: B. Green
Bassoon: J. Orzel
Cello: K. Andrie
Clarinet: M. Brandenburg
Class Piano: M. Ezerova
Cornetto: W. Mathews
Flute: G. Ellison Wolfson
Guitar, classical: W. Coulter, M. Özgen
Harpsichord: L. Burman-Hall
Horn: S. Vollmer
Oboe: P. Mitchell
Percussion: G. Marsh, W. Winant
Piano, classical: M. J. Cope, M. Ezerova, A. Leikin
Saxophone: P. Contos
Trombone and tuba: W. Solomon
Trumpet: O. Miyoshi
Violin and viola: R. Malan
Voice: P. Maginnis, B. Staufenbiel

Performance Groups

The participants in some groups are selected by auditions open to the entire university community. Students may receive 2 course credits for each quarter of enrollment in any of the ensembles.

University Orchestra: N. Paiement
University Concert Choir: J. Desjardins
Women's Chorale: Staff
Chamber Singers: N. Paiement
University Opera Theater: B. Staufenbiel
Opera Workshop: P. Maginnis, B. Staufenbiel
Early Music Consort: L. Burman-Hall, L. Miller
Chamber Music: Staff
Large Jazz Ensemble: R. Klevan
Small Jazz Ensembles: S. Poplin
Latin American Ensembles: J. Schechter
West Javanese Gamelan: U. Sumarna
Balinese Gamelan Angklung: L. Burman-Hall
Gender Wayang Ensemble: L. Burman-Hall
Wind Ensemble: R. Klevan

Graduate Programs:

Doctorate of Musical Arts

The Doctorate of Musical Arts degree program in Music Composition has tracks in computer-assisted composition and in world music composition. The track in computer-assisted composition includes algorithmic techniques for the generation of musical materials and structures to be realized in the creation of instrumental, vocal, and digitally synthesized music. The track in world music composition addresses a variety of compositional approaches influenced by indigenous non-Western musics, with a focus upon those musics taught by faculty composers, ethnomusicologists, and applied instructors. The D.M.A. program will develop accomplished, active, and articulate composers with a broad awareness of the diverse styles, cultural influences, media, venues, and technical means available to them in the 21st century.

Requirements
For students entering with the bachelor's degree, a minimum of 102 credits in course work at UCSC will be required. All students must be in residence for a minimum of nine quarters. Students must enroll in a minimum of twelve credits each quarter until they advance to candidacy. After advancing to candidacy, students remaining in residence must take a minimum of two five-credit courses per quarter.

For students entering with a master's degree from another institution, a minimum of 72 credits in course work at UCSC will be required. All students must be in residence for a minimum of nine quarters. Students must enroll in a minimum of twelve credits each quarter until they advance to candidacy. After advancing to candidacy, students remaining in residence must take a minimum of two five-credit courses per quarter.

Core Courses
Music 200, 201, and 202 are required of all M.A. and D.M.A. students. (Students entering the D.M.A. with a master's degree from another institution may be exempted from one or more of these three course requirements by submitting work that demonstrates the relevant skills.) Music 203H is required of all students in the world music composition track. Music 206B is required of all students in the computer assisted composition track. One additional focus course selected from the Music 206 series, and one elective (which may also be an offering of Music 206) are also required. The remainder of the course requirements for the D.M.A. are specifically in the field of composition. Music 219A and B introduce the discipline to first year graduate students. Music 220 gives the students greater leeway in which to develop their own individual styles and techniques. Independent study courses in composition are taken in preparation for the completion of the Qualifying Recital (which is required of students entering with a bachelor's degree) and in preparation for the dissertation.

Pre-qualifying Reviews
Before the end of the first year of study, all students accepted into the D.M.A. program must present a half-concert of the music they have composed that year and submit the scores and a recording of the concert as a portfolio. This portfolio will inform the music faculty's evaluation of the students' status in the graduate program. M.A. students at UC Santa Cruz who were not admitted to the D.M.A. program at the time of their original application may apply (or reapply) for the D.M.A. program at the completion of their first year of study. The student's portfolio of first-year compositions will be central to the faculty's consideration of the student's application. If the application is accepted, the student will continue into the second year of the D.M.A. program.

The Qualifying Recital
All students admitted to the D.M.A. program must present a full recital of their work at the end of their second year of study. The D.M.A. Qualifying Recital will be evaluated by the student's primary adviser and by a second "Reader" (generally a second composer on the UCSC faculty) selected by the student in consultation with the primary adviser.

Dissertation Prospectus
The dissertation prospectus must be submitted by the beginning of spring term one year before the scheduled Qualifying Examination. The prospectus must include a proposal describing the scope and nature of the dissertation composition and the accompanying essay. In addition to defining the parameters of the dissertation itself, the dissertation prospectus will suggest to the student's Qualifying Examination Committee those areas of study that should be emphasized in the student's Qualifying Examination.

Qualifying Examination. Advancement to candidacy is contingent upon the passing of a written examination and an oral examination normally administered at the end of year three for students entering with a bachelor's degree, and year one or two for students entering with a master's degree from another institution. For the written portion of the examination, the Qualifying Examination Committee provides questions on the three topics assigned as areas of emphasis. The oral examination is administered by the student's Qualifying Examination Committee and may concern any aspect of the assigned topics with an emphasis on those issues addressed in the written portion of the examination. Advancement to candidacy is granted upon notice that the student has passed the written and oral examinations.

Dissertation
D.M.A. students must complete a dissertation consisting of a substantial musical composition, accompanied by an essay. One to two years of work beyond the qualifying examinations should be sufficient for the completion of the dissertation, except in cases where extended fieldwork is required.

Final Examination
The final examination will be a public oral defense of the dissertation. After an oral presentation by the candidate, the candidate will be questioned by the Dissertation Committee.

Students entering the D.M.A. program in composition will be expected to have completed the equivalent of a BA in music, a bachelor of music degree, or an M.A. in music. Student applications must also include scores for the UCSC Music Graduate Entrance Examination, three composition scores with recordings (if available), a writing sample (e.g., term papers, thesis, essay), all undergraduate transcripts, letters of recommendation, and general Graduate Record Examination scores. International ESL students are expected to demonstrate competency in English through the submission of TOEFL scores or by other means.

Enrollment in the program will begin in fall quarter 2005. The application deadline is February 1 for all students, including those who wish to be considered for fellowships in the following academic year. Further details about the program are available from the Music Department.

Master's Degree

Requirements
The M.A. degree program in music integrates studies in performance, composition/analysis, and research. In consultation with a faculty adviser, the student pursues a two-year course of studies culminating in a final project that typically combines an original composition or written thesis with a related public performance.

Required courses include course 200, Introduction to Research Methods; course 201, Pretonal and Tonal Analysis; and course 202, Tonal and Posttonal Analysis. Students also select three courses from the 203 series of seminars in performance practices of Western or non-Western music (Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic and twentieth-century periods, and traditional musics of Asia and Latin America). Students in composition may substitute course 220, Graduate Seminar in Music Composition, for up to two quarters of course 203. Students are encouraged to create a program involving corollary studies such as computer studies, area cultural studies, linguistics, anthropology, theater arts, and visual arts.

Current skill in reading and comprehension of a relevant foreign language must be demonstrated upon enrollment by attainment of level 3 on the UCSC language placement examination or, during the first year of enrollment, by satisfactory completion of level 3 of the language at UCSC. With the approval of the primary adviser, students whose emphasis is algorithmic composition may complete three quarters/one year of university-level instruction in computer programming in lieu of fulfillment of the foreign language requirement.

The final requirements for the degree are a thesis comprising a substantive and original creative or scholarly work (course 299, Thesis Research) and a related public performance (course 298, Graduate Recital).

Special requirements for admission to the program include completion of the UCSC Music Graduate Entrance Examination and submission of a portfolio of recent work that includes a writing or composition sample (e.g., term paper or senior thesis, scores, or other projects) and a 10- to 20-minute unedited CD, audio-, or videocassette of one or more recent performances as instrumentalist, vocalist, conductor, or performances of original compositions.

Scores for the Graduate Record Examination General Test are required by the University of California. The application deadline is February 1 for all students, including those who wish to be considered for fellowships in the following academic year. Further details about the program are available from the Music Department.