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Applicants to the Performance program are expected to have a background in Music Theory equivalent to the B.Mus. in Performance. Applicants found to be deficient in their background preparation may be required to take certain additional music theory undergraduate courses.
The following program prerequisites may be assigned as additional required courses on the basis of transcript review:
MUPD 560 - Intro to Research Methods in Music
4 credits of:
MUPG 210 - Italian Diction (2 credits)
MUPG 211 - French Diction (2 credits)
MUPG 212 - English Diction (2 credits)
MUPG 213 - German Diction (2 credits)
6 credits of:
MUHL 372 - Solo Song Outside Germany and Austria (3 credits)
MUHL 377 - Baroque Opera (3 credits)
MUHL 387 - Opera from Mozart to Puccini (3 credits)
MUHL 388 - Opera after 1900 (3 credits)
MUHL 390 - German Lied (3 credits)
18 credits:
Practical Instrument : Individual instrumental, vocal, conducting, collaborative piano or operatic tutorial. Technical and interpretive development, preparation of thesis performance projects.
Terms: Fall 2013, Winter 2014
Instructors: Mdivani, Marina; Guimond, Claire; Bergeron, Sylvain; Huang, Yai-Yun; Marandola, Fabrice; Hashimoto, Kyoko; Poletaev, Ilya; Forget, Normand; Christie, Carolyn; Levesque, Stephane; Zirbel, John; Roy, Andre J; Yazdanfar, Ali; Algie, Stephen; Kolomyjec, Joanne; Popescu, Maria; Boudreault-Sevadjian, Therese; Sylvan, Sanford; Beaudry, Pierre; Eriksson, Erik; Hauser, Rudolf-Alexius; Aldrich, Simon; Haimovitz, Matt; Dunn, Andrew; Merkelo, Paul A; McMahon, Michael; Kutan, Aline; Fewer, Mark; Lupien, Denise; Crowley, Robert; Swartz, Jennifer; Leclair, Jacqueline; Dolin, Elizabeth; Baskin, Theodore; Box, James; Hutchins, Timothy; Chappell, Eric; Dyachkov, Yegor; Robinson, Brian; Freeman, Peter; Strauss, Axel; Manker, Brian; Plouffe, Helene; Napper, Susan; Weman Eriksson, Lena; Beghin, Tom; Weimann, Alexander; Jarczyk, Jan; Cazes, Alain (Fall) Chappell, Eric; Strauss, Axel; Kolomyjec, Joanne; Kutan, Aline; Roy, Andre J (Winter)
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MUPG 620
Practical Instrument : Additional individual instrumental, vocal, conducting, collaborative piano or operatic tutorial according to area of performing specialization.
Terms: Fall 2013, Winter 2014
Instructors: Hashimoto, Kyoko (Fall) Mdivani, Marina; Guimond, Claire; Bergeron, Sylvain; Marandola, Fabrice; Hashimoto, Kyoko; Poletaev, Ilya; Forget, Normand; Christie, Carolyn; Levesque, Stephane; Zirbel, John; Roy, Andre J; Yazdanfar, Ali; Algie, Stephen; Kolomyjec, Joanne; Popescu, Maria; Boudreault-Sevadjian, Therese; Sylvan, Sanford; Beaudry, Pierre; Eriksson, Erik; Hauser, Rudolf-Alexius; Aldrich, Simon; Haimovitz, Matt; Dunn, Andrew; Merkelo, Paul A; McMahon, Michael; Kutan, Aline; Fewer, Mark; Lupien, Denise; Crowley, Robert; Swartz, Jennifer; Leclair, Jacqueline; Dolin, Elizabeth; Baskin, Theodore; Box, James; Hutchins, Timothy; Chappell, Eric; Dyachkov, Yegor; Robinson, Brian; Freeman, Peter; Strauss, Axel; Manker, Brian; Plouffe, Helene; Napper, Susan; Weman Eriksson, Lena; Weimann, Alexander; Jarczyk, Jan; Cazes, Alain; Dominguez, Chloe; Beghin, Tom (Winter)
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MUPG 621
Practical Instrument : Individual tutorial according to area of performing specialization. Interpretative preparation of thesis performance projects and development of individual artistic vision.
Terms: Fall 2013, Winter 2014
Instructors: Box, James; Dunn, Andrew; Zirbel, John; Guimond, Claire; Bergeron, Sylvain; Plouffe, Helene; Eriksson, Erik; Hashimoto, Kyoko; Mdivani, Marina; Poletaev, Ilya; Popescu, Maria; Sylvan, Sanford; Kolomyjec, Joanne; Algie, Stephen; Levesque, Stephane; Aldrich, Simon; Christie, Carolyn; Fewer, Mark; Lupien, Denise; Roy, Andre J; Haimovitz, Matt; Yazdanfar, Ali; Merkelo, Paul A; Chen, Jun-Yuan; Huang, Yai-Yun; Marandola, Fabrice; Kestenberg, Abe; Hutchins, Timothy; Leclair, Jacqueline; Crowley, Robert; Boudreault-Sevadjian, Therese; Robinson, Brian; Baskin, Theodore; Bolduc, Remi; Kutan, Aline; Dyachkov, Yegor; Swartz, Jennifer (Fall) Hashimoto, Kyoko; Poletaev, Ilya; Hauser, Rudolf-Alexius; Boudreault-Sevadjian, Therese; Forget, Normand; Roy, Andre J; Sylvan, Sanford; Huang, Yai-Yun; Marandola, Fabrice; Mdivani, Marina; Merkelo, Paul A; Bolduc, Remi (Winter)
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MUPG 622
Performance : Solo recital, collaborative piano recital, conducting recital or principal Opera Role (by audition) with program notes.
Terms: Fall 2013, Winter 2014, Summer 2014
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MUPG 660, MUPG 660D1/D2 or MUPG 665D1/D2
Solo recital (60-70 minutes), collaborative piano recital (60-70 minutes), conducting recital (30-40 minutes) or Principal Opera Role as defined by the American Guild of Musical Artists' website (), Lead, Schedule C
Performance : Preparation and performance of standard operatic repertoire and programme notes.
Terms: Fall 2013, Winter 2014
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
* Students may take MUPG 653 or MUPG 600.
9 credits from the following:
Performance : Solo recital, collaborative piano recital, conducting recital or principal opera role (by audition) with program notes. May include chamber music providing none of the repertoire was prepared in a chamber ensemble taken for credit.
Terms: Fall 2013, Winter 2014, Summer 2014
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MUPG 667, MUPG 667D1/D2, MUPG 657 or MUPG 657D1/D2
Solo recital (60-70 minutes), collaborative piano recital (60-70 minutes), conducting recital (30-40 minutes) or principal opera role (by audition) as defined by the American Guild of Musical Artists' website (), Lead, Schedule C
Performance : Recital, conducting recital or featured opera role (by audition) with program notes.
Terms: Fall 2013, Winter 2014
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Recital (30-40 minutes), conducting recital (20-30 minutes) or featured opera role (by audition) as defined by the American Guild of Musical Artists' website (), Featured, Schedule C
Performance : Recording project with liner notes.
Terms: Fall 2013, Winter 2014
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Limited enrolment; admissions by proposal only and with approval of the Department; additional fees apply.
Performance : Research-creation involving collaboration between different disciplines resulting in a new work, interpretation or contribution to knowledge presented in public (i.e., performer-composer commission; performer and actor/dancer collaboration, subject in CIRMMT research study, etc) with program notes as relevant.
Terms: Winter 2014
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Performer-composer composition of 5-10 minutes. By proposal only and with approval of the Department.
Performance : Preparation and performance of short program of vocal, operatic, or collaborative piano repertoire in a limited three week time frame.
Terms: Fall 2013, Winter 2014
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MUPG 663 or MUPG 663D1/D2 or MUPG 655 or MUPG 656 or MUPG 656D1/D2
20-25 minutes of repertoire
Performance : Preparation and performance of standard operatic repertoire and programme notes.
Terms: Fall 2013, Winter 2014
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Performance : Preparation and performance of specialized operatic repertoire and program notes.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
* Students may take either MUPG 653 (if not already taken) or MUPG 601 (if MUPG 600 not already taken).
Graduate Faculty Music Courses : Participation in three professional development workshops or research colloquium approved by the department on topics such as performance pedagogy, academic teaching, music production, copyright, business, grantsmanship, etc. Students participate in each semester of residency until requirements have been met.
Terms: Fall 2013
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Performance : Issues in collaborative piano song repertoire and performance in different genres and musical styles.
Terms: Winter 2014
Instructors: McMahon, Michael (Winter)
Prerequisite: MUEN 556 or equivalent or permission of the instructor
Restriction: Open to graduate students in collaborative piano or with the permission of the instructor
Performance : Issues in collaborative piano instrumental repertoire and performance in different genres and musical styles.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Prerequisite: MUEN 556 or equivalent or permission of the instructor
Restriction: Open to graduate students in collaborative piano or with the permission of the instructor
Performance : Issues in collaborative piano orchestral reduction, opera, oratorio and performance in different genres and musical styles.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Prerequisite: MUEN 556 or equivalent or permission of the instructor
Restriction: Open to graduate students in collaborative piano or with permission of the instructor
3 credits from the following:
Performance : Emphasis on vocal performance practices through practical application: text, language, inflection, pronunciation and interpretation considered with individuality of each student's voice and technical development. After examining historical treatises, students will discuss and present musical selections utilizing modern performance standards yet remaining true to stylistic demands of each period.
Terms: Fall 2013
Instructors: Strauss, Anja (Fall)
3 hours
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MUPG 690.
Performance : Introduction to the major treatises with emphasis on their practical application to modern performance. Through the study and discussion of both primary and secondary sources, students will observe and compare national styles. Special topics include the conventions of recitative; text-driven embellishment; ornamentation in Handel's dramatic works.
Terms: Winter 2014
Instructors: Kinslow, Valerie (Winter)
3 hours
Restriction: Open to singers, keyboardists, and conductors or with permission of the instructor
Performance Practice : Seminar in performance practice. Topic varies by year.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
3 hours
Performance Practice : Seminar in performance practice. Topic varies by year.
Terms: Fall 2013
Instructors: Weman Eriksson, Lena (Fall)
3 hours
Performance Practice : Seminar in performance practice. Topic varies by year.
Terms: Fall 2013, Winter 2014
Instructors: Leclair, Jacqueline (Fall) Leclair, Jacqueline (Winter)
3 hours
Performance Practice : Seminar in performance practice. Topic varies by year.
Terms: Fall 2013, Winter 2014
Instructors: Marandola, Fabrice (Fall) Chiasson, Rachelle A M (Winter)
3 hours
Performance Practice : Seminar in performance practice. Topic varies by year.
Terms: Winter 2014
Instructors: Mativetsky, Shawn Eliot (Winter)
3 hours
Performance Practice : Seminar in performance practice. Topic varies by year.
Terms: Winter 2014
Instructors: Wapnick, Joel (Winter)
3 hours
One approved graduate 3-credit seminar with the prefix MUCO, MUGS, MUGT, MUHL, MUMT, MUPP, or MUTH.
One additional graduate 3-credit seminar approved by the Department.
Two terms of:
Ensemble : Highly qualified accompanists will be assigned to work independently with studio teachers and their students.
Terms: Fall 2013, Winter 2014, Summer 2014
Instructors: Purdy, Winston; Popescu, Maria; Strauss, Axel; Hashimoto, Kyoko (Fall) Lupien, Denise; Popescu, Maria; Kolomyjec, Joanne; Leclair, Jacqueline; Hashimoto, Kyoko (Winter) Algie, Stephen (Summer)
4 hours
Prerequisite: Audition.
4 credits from the following (may be repeated unless otherwise noted):
Ensemble : Ensemble for chamber music - various instruments.
Terms: Fall 2013, Winter 2014
Instructors: Chen, Jun-Yuan; Leclair, Jacqueline; Aldrich, Simon; Dunn, Andrew; Cazes, Alain; Strauss, Axel; McNabney, Douglas; Roy, Andre J; Dolin, Elizabeth; Haimovitz, Matt; Forget, Normand; Hashimoto, Kyoko; Shuter, Cindy; Kestenberg, Abe; Robinson, Brian; Yazdanfar, Ali (Fall) Kestenberg, Abe; Dolin, Elizabeth; Shuter, Cindy; Swartz, Jennifer; Hashimoto, Kyoko; Marchand, Jean; McNabney, Douglas; Dunn, Andrew; Chen, Jun-Yuan; Dyachkov, Yegor; Read, Alexander; Leclair, Jacqueline; Dumouchel, Michael; Aldrich, Simon; Christie, Carolyn; Strauss, Axel; de Caen, Kathleen; Arulanandam, Amahl; Robinson, Brian; Yazdanfar, Ali; Roy, Andre J (Winter)
Ensemble : Chamber music of the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods.
Terms: Fall 2013, Winter 2014
Instructors: Forget, Normand; McNabney, Douglas; Dolin, Elizabeth; Cazes, Alain (Fall) Dolin, Elizabeth; Weman Eriksson, Lena; MacMillan, Elizabeth H; Leclair, Jacqueline; McNabney, Douglas; Dunn, Andrew; Kestenberg, Abe; Arulanandam, Amahl; Aldrich, Simon (Winter)
1 hour
Prerequisite: Audition.
Ensemble : Study of song repertoire for singers and pianists.
Terms: Fall 2013, Winter 2014
Instructors: McMahon, Michael (Fall) McMahon, Michael (Winter)
Ensemble : An ensemble of 4-6 vocalists and instrumentalists which performs music of the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods.
Terms: Fall 2013, Winter 2014
Instructors: Weman Eriksson, Lena; MacMillan, Elizabeth H; Jennejohn, Matthew Dixon; Kinslow, Valerie; Michaud, Natalie (Fall) Kinslow, Valerie; MacMillan, Elizabeth H; Beghin, Tom; Michaud, Natalie; Jennejohn, Matthew Dixon; Weman Eriksson, Lena (Winter)
Prerequisite: Audition. Prerequisite or corequisite for keyboard players: MUPG 272.
Ensemble : Highly qualified accompanists will be assigned to work independently with studio teachers and their students.
Terms: Fall 2013, Winter 2014, Summer 2014
Instructors: Purdy, Winston; Popescu, Maria; Strauss, Axel; Hashimoto, Kyoko (Fall) Lupien, Denise; Popescu, Maria; Kolomyjec, Joanne; Leclair, Jacqueline; Hashimoto, Kyoko (Winter) Algie, Stephen (Summer)
4 hours
Prerequisite: Audition.
Ensemble : Exploration of the vast literature for sonatas with piano and instrument, including multiple issues of ensemble preparation and performing.
Terms: Fall 2013, Winter 2014
Instructors: Hashimoto, Kyoko (Fall) Hashimoto, Kyoko (Winter)
Prerequisite: Audition or permission of the instructor.
Restriction: Limited to 4 advanced pianists and 4 instrumentalists.
Ensemble : Supervised coaching of singers, and playing of scenes and productions; rehearsal pianists and backstage conducting responsibilities.
Terms: Fall 2013, Winter 2014
Instructors: Hansen, Patrick (Fall) Hansen, Patrick (Winter)
6 hours
Restriction: Open by audition to advanced pianists, and to students in conducting, who are interested in training as operatic coaches. Students enrolled for piano instruction at ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ must also have their practical teacher's approval
Performance : A historically-oriented study of the principles of figured bass. Standard idioms from historical treatises will be introduced. Preparation of operatic excerpts from the standard high Baroque repertory is required.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Performance : A study of the many different styles of figured bass accompaniment as revealed in contemporary sources. The emphasis will be on realization at the keyboard of representative 17th- and 18th- century operatic recitatives and arias.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
2 hours
Prerequisite: MUPG 670