1. Music master
Emphasis is placed on professional ability. More than 80% of the courses are professional music courses. When applying, you usually need to submit a pre-selected material or attend an interview (on-site interview or recorded interview). The employment direction is mostly music performance.
2. Master of Art
Master of arts, emphasizing academic research and creation. There are 40%-60% music-related courses in the course, which mainly provide the strengthened background of music theory and history. Students interested in music theory and music history can choose to apply for MA degree.
The professional settings of the Conservatory of Music generally include:
Composition composition
conductor
A study of jazz
Contemporary Music Creation and Arrangement
film soundtrack
Music production and engineering music production and recording projects
Song creation
Music synthesis synthesis music
Professional music professional musician
music education
Music business/management and commodity sales Music business management
Music history, literature and theory
Music pedagogy music teaching
musicology
Music therapy/therapist music therapy
Music theory and composition
Music and Ethnology Music and Ethnology
Music performance with applied music (performance, brass, percussion, keyboard, piano, organ, string, violin, viola, guitar, voice and woodwind).
Application requirements for music majors
The application for the Conservatory of Music consists of two parts. In addition to the application for graduate school, the application for the Conservatory of Music needs to be completed separately. The requirements for the applicant are:
1.GPA requires more than 3.0.
2. Language achievement. International students are required to provide TOEFL or IELTS scores. Generally speaking, TOEFL score above 80 and IELTS score above 6.5 are required. Some top comprehensive universities have higher requirements for language scores, such as the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which requires a minimum TOEFL score of 87. Some universities offer conditional admission to applicants whose language scores fail to meet the requirements, such as Manhattan Conservatory of Music (TOEFL 49-78) and University of Kansas (TOEFL reading, listening and writing scores18-19; The lowest total score of IELTS is 5.5, and no part of the score is lower than 5.0), Boston Conservatory of Music, etc. Most majors in the Conservatory of Music don't need to provide GRE scores, and majors with strong theory such as music theory and music education need GRE.
3. Letter of recommendation. 2-3 letters, usually 1-2 letters, required to be judges in the field of music specialty.
4. Instruments. Including resume and personal statement. It mainly shows music skills, music learning background and experience, and plans for future study and work.
5. Portfolio and interview. For applicants majoring in music, it is very important to show their professional skills through portfolio and interview.
Requirements for graduate students in conservatory of music to apply for portfolio
In addition to completing the application for graduate school and conservatory of music, you need to submit a portfolio or interview track.
Some schools require that a pre-selection material be submitted at the time of application, and some applicants will be screened for further interviews through preliminary examination; Some schools do not require portfolios, but register for interviews directly or upload and submit interview tracks when applying. For international students, it is difficult to participate in the on-site interview of the school. It is necessary to ask the applicant school in detail about the requirements of the interview tracks and submit the tracks that meet the requirements in time. Submission methods include: submission through designated websites such as DecisionDesk; After uploading to the designated website (YouTube, Youku), send the webpage link to the school; Send the CD/DVD to school.
For the specific requirements of portfolio and interview tracks, take the piano performance major of San Francisco Conservatory of Music as an example:
Portfolio Requirements (Pre-screening Material Requirements):
Graduation (video length must be at least 30 minutes):
1. The first movement of the sonata in the classical period
2. A complete and substantial The Romantic Period work (such as a ballad or mephistopheles Waltz) or at least two opposite movements in a larger multi-movement work.
3. A short work selected by the candidate. For example, it may be a prelude, fugue or a character song in any period.
Interview requirements (piano-final interview with reporters)
graduate
1. Bach's main works (Variations, Tokata, Suite, etc. )
2. A whole classical sonata
3. Romantic works with the difficulty equivalent to Chopin's ballads or scherzos.
4. 20th century works with difficulty equivalent to Copland Variations or Bartok Suite 14.
Matters needing attention in application
Generally speaking, the application deadline for conservatories of music is relatively early, and most of the deadlines are 12. 1. Therefore, it is suggested to start applying in September and determine the schools to apply for, so as to reserve enough time to record the corresponding works according to the requirements of each applying school. To ensure high-quality sound effects when recording a portfolio, it is best to record it in a professional recording studio, and be careful not to choose tracks beyond your ability when choosing tracks.
It is not easy to evaluate students' professional ability for applying for consultants, and the proportion of interviews in music professional applications accounts for more than 70%. I suggest that our application consultant can let students record their works early, and then select several interested schools and invite professors from the conservatory where the students' works belong for professional consultation. Generally speaking, professors are more willing to give comments on their own works, so that consultants can roughly judge the students' professional skills from the professors' answers, which is convenient for further determining the application schools.