Incoming master’s students in performance, collaborative piano, music history, music theory, composition, and conducting take a music theory assessment to ensure success in graduate-level music theory courses. Based on the results of the assessment, students will be placed either in a review course in music theory (no credit toward a graduate degree), advised to take Post-Tonal Music Theory (for degree credit), and/or will be able to enroll in any graduate-level theory course.
The assessment is offered the week before classes start for the Fall semester (arrangements will be made for students enrolling in the Spring).