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Students are Invited to Apply to the Graduate Programs inMusicology and Music Theory

About the Conservatory

One of the oldest music schools in the United States, the College-Conservatory of Music (CCM)encompasses the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music (founded 1867) and the College of Music (founded1878). The two merged in 1955 and joined the University of Cincinnati in 1962.In the fall of 1999, a $93 million renovation and construction project was completed and the historic

institution now resides in the CCM Village, a state-of-the-art complex of four buildings designed by thesignature architect Henry N. Cobb. The CCM Village provides anaesthetically satisfying atmosphere for both performance and scholar-ship, with classrooms equipped with computers and internetconnections, ample rehearsal and practice rooms, and performancevenues that range from the more intimate spaces of the Studio Theaterand Werner Recital Hall, to the richly furnished, 740-seat CorbettAuditorium, which won an Architecture Merit Award from the USInstitute for Theatre Technology.CCM offers a strikingly diverse range of opportunities for stu-

dents through its many divisions: Composition, Musicology, andTheory (which includes also the Center for Computer Music);Keyboard Studies; Performance Studies (which includes everythingfrom voice to jazz studies); Ensembles and Conducting; MusicEducation; Dance; theatrical departments including Musical Theater,Opera, Drama, Directing, Theater Design and Production, and ArtsAdministration; the Electronic Media division (including multimedia,

video, television, audio, radio, and electronic journalism); and the Preparatory Department (pre-colle-giate and adult education for music, drama, and dance).CCM is the largest single source of performing-arts presentations in the state of Ohio, with nearly

1,000 events per year. Its ensembles have performed internationally, recorded for major labels, and wonASCAP awards for excellence and programming. In rankings by US News and World Report, CCM hasbeen honored as one of the top university programs in the country for pursuing a graduate degree inmusic.

Graduate Studies in Music History and MusicologyThe MM and PhD in Music History/Musicology are offered through the Division of Composition,

Musicology, and Theory. The Master’s program encourages students to explore the whole scope of musichistory through in-depth period, genre, and music theory classes, as well as an ever-changing array of spe-cial topics courses. In recent years, subjects have included music in Medici Florence, keyboard works ofJ.S. Bach, bel canto opera, music and national identity, music and image in film, fin-de-siècle Vienna,Charles Ives, and ragtime. Doctoral students may choose from among these courses and also enroll in aseminar during each quarter of their course work. (Master’s students customarily take one seminar in theirsecond year.) Seminars present an opportunity for focused study and have featured topics such as Musicin Christian Antiquity, Petrucci’s Prints, Seventeenth-Century Venetian Opera, Questions of Influence inLate Eighteenth-Century Instrumental Music, Beethoven and Bonn, Critical Editing of Music, Musicand Postmodernism, and New Critical Approaches to the Broadway Musical. In addition, all studentsparticipate in the Musicology Colloquium, a weekly forum that covers a variety of topics, from special-ized aspects of the field to practical matters such as preparing a curriculum vitae and writing a bookreview.For additional information, see “Other Opportunities and Resources” on p. 6.

Student Attainments in Music History/MusicologyStudents in the Master’s and Doctoral programs in music history/musicology are active in the field.

As a result of the wealth of opportunities and resources available, they have chosen varied subjects for theirtheses and dissertations, from medieval Offertory chant, sixteenth-century motet repertory, and music ineighteenth-century Weimar to the twentieth-century historiography of the symphony, feminist anthemsof Peggy Seeger, and Elgar in Cincinnati.Master’s students have received funding through the University Research Council for summer

research projects relating to their theses. Two of these theses have recently won the MidwesternAssociation of Graduate Schools Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award. Doctoral students have receivedsuch fellowships and awards as the American Musicological Society Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50Dissertation Fellowship, Society for American Music Mark Tucker Award, Deutscher AkademischerAustauschdienst (DAAD), Fulbright Foundation Fellowship, and AMS Midwest Best Student PaperAward. In addition, musicology students produce the annual journal Music Research Forum; see<www.ccm.uc.edu/comp_theory_hist/MRF>.For a selective list of recent theses and dissertations, conference presentations, and publications by

music history/musicology students—as well as a sampling of the institutions at which former CCMmusi-cology students are currently teaching—see the online announcements at <www.ccm.uc.edu/comp_theory_hist>.

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Musicology Faculty

Jeongwon Joe(PhD, Northwestern University)

Twentieth-century music, film music,opera-cinema studies, and cultural studies.

Email: <[email protected]>

Jonathan Kregor(PhD, Harvard University)

Nineteenth-century aesthetics, Franz Liszt, musical reproductions,music and memory, virtuosity and gender, art songs.


Mary Sue Morrow(PhD, Indiana University)

Eighteenth-century symphony, aesthetics and criticism,reception history, nationalism, sociology of music.


Matthew Peattie(PhD, Harvard University)

Medieval music, Beneventan chant, modality,sources and transcription, musical change.Email: <[email protected]>

Stephanie P. Schlagel(PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

Renaissance music (esp. Josquin des Prez), the motet, reception history,and historiography. Dr. Schlagel also directs the Early Music Lab.


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bruce d. mcclung(PhD, University of Rochester)

American music, musical theater, Baroque performance practice,manuscript studies, critical editing.Email: <[email protected]>

Graduate Studies in Music Theory

The MM and PhD in Music Theory are offered through the Division of Composition, Musicology,and Theory. The master’s program provides a thorough introduction to the major research areas of musictheory through a variety of required and elective core courses. Beyond the master’s core courses, the PhDprogram allows students to explore advanced theoretical and analytical topics in depth, through a rangeof seminars and research-oriented courses covering a broad array of areas.Regularly offered courses include Sixteenth- and Eighteenth-Century Counterpoint (each two-quar-

ter sequences), Post-Tonal Theory (a two-quarter sequence), Analysis of Twentieth Century Music,Schenkerian Analysis (a two-quarter sequence), Graduate Theory and Analysis (a three-quarter sequence),History of Theory (a three-quarter sequence), Pedagogy of Theory (a two-quarter sequence), andIntroduction to Aesthetics. Seminars provide opportunities for focused study; recently these have beenoffered on such diverse topics as semiotic and narrative approaches to interpretation, transformationaltheory and analysis, rhythm and meter in tonal music, the analysis of early music, the analysis of musicsince World War II, musical ambiguity, theories of sonata form, conceptualizing “prolongation,” theoryand historiography, and the music of individual composers such as Schoenberg and Stravinsky. In addi-tion, all students participate in alternating years of “Music Theory Colloquium” and “Readings in MusicTheory and Analysis,” which are devoted to discussions of current theoretical literature and close read-ings of seminal texts.For additional information, see “Other Opportunities and Resources” on p. 6.

Student Attainments in Music Theory

As a result of the wealth of opportunities and resources available, theory students have chosen variedtopics for their theses and dissertations, including musical-rhetorical analysis, principles of sonata formin Brahms’s early music, tonal structure in Landini’s music, issues of ambiguity in Tchaikovsky’s music, asynthesis of Schenkerian and Schoenbergian techniques as applied to Wolf ’s songs, a theory of musicalirony, harmonic characteristics of popular music, Henry Cowell’s rhythmic theories, a theory of musicaldevelopment based on the philosophy of Bergson, and studies of diverse kinds on the music of Crumb,Golijov, Gubaidulina, Ginastera, Penderecki, Scriabian, Sibelius, Strauss, and Webern.For a selective list of recent dissertations, conferences presentations, and publications by theory stu-

dents—as well as a sampling of the institutions at which former CCM theory students are currentlyteaching—see the online announcements at <www.ccm.uc.edu/comp_theory_hist>.

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Music Theory Faculty

David Carson Berry(PhD, Yale University)

Schenkerian topics and tonal analysis, post-tonal analysis and twentieth-centurytopics (including Stravinsky studies), American popular music, and history of theory

(with an emphasis on the theory and aesthetics of ca. 1750–1950).Email: <[email protected]>

Robert Zierolf(PhD, University of Cincinnati)

Twentieth-century topics, aesthetics, and music in society.Email: <[email protected]>

Steven J. Cahn(PhD, SUNY Stony Brook)

Schoenberg studies, aesthetics, theories of history, imaging of musicalphenomena, and behavioral and neural correlations of musicality.


Miguel A. Roig-Francolí(PhD, Indiana University)

History of theory (with an emphasis on the Renaissance), analysis of early music,twentieth-century topics, music theory pedagogy

(author of two music-theory textbooks published by McGraw-Hill).Dr. Roig-Francolí is also an award-winning composer.


Samuel Ng(PhD, Eastman School of Music)

Brahms studies, phrase rhythm, music perception,and the interrelation of analysis and performance.


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Catherine Losada(PhD, City University of New York)

Post-tonal music, transformational theory,the musical collage, and music written after 1950.


Other Opportunities and Resources

The interests and expertise of the faculty are supplemented by“Thinking about Music,” an annual series of lectures by visitingscholars from all areas of music theory, musicology, and ethnomu-sicology. Between 1996 and 2006, over eighty speakers have beenfeatured in this series. Students are also encouraged to take advan-tage of opportunities available in our conservatory environment,including world- and early-music labs, applied lessons, and themany instrumental and vocal ensembles. In addition, students canbroaden their knowledge of repertories by attending CCM’s musi-cal performances as well as the programs of the city’s renownedmusical institutions (see “About the City” on p. 7).

Research is supported by a rich collection of scholarly, performance,and original source materials housed in the Gorno Memorial MusicLibrary, which has a total collection of ca. 176,000 items, including ca.40,000 print volumes (books and serials); 72,000 scores; 55,000 record-ings; and other materials. The library is supplemented by the MusicListening Center, which offers an advanced audio system with numerouslistening stations and a computer lab. In addition to its physical hold-ings, the library further facilitates research through OhioLINK (the OhioLibrary and Information Network), which is a consortium of eighty-ninecollege and university libraries in Ohio, plus the State Library. It servesfaculty and students through access to more than 47.6 million libraryitems; 140 electronic research databases; 12,000 electronic journals;40,000 e-books; 17,500 master’s theses and doctoral dissertations; and aDigital Media Center with 3,000 educational films and documentaries,thousands of electronic images, and other materials.

Scholarships and Financial Aid

All students admitted to the musicology and theory pro-grams will be considered for University Graduate Scholarships(which cover partial to full tuition) and University GraduateTeaching Assistantships (which cover full tuition and provide acompetitive stipend). A personal interview is generally required.Students seeking need-based financial support must apply to theUniversity Student Financial Aid Office by the March 1st prior-ity deadline.

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About the City

Greater Cincinnati encompasses portions of three states (Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana) and has aMetropolitan Statistical Area population of around two million people, placing it among the twenty-fivelargest cities in the US. The city is known for its beauty, with its steep hills, wooded suburbs, and pictur-esque downtown riverfront; it was called the “Queen City of the West” by Longfellow, and “America’smost beautiful inland city” by Churchill. Equally attractive is its livability: Cincinnati’s composite cost-of-living index places it below the national average; Fortune magazine ranked it among the top ten UScities in which to live and work; and it is among the safest cities in which to live according to crime sta-

tistics for metro areas. In the 2004 survey of “America’s MostLiterate Cities,” Cincinnati ranked among the top five cities inthe US in terms of residents’ literate behavior, as evaluated bytwenty-two variables such as buying newspapers and books, andchecking materials out of libraries.The city boasts many fine musical and performing-arts

organizations, such as the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (thefifth oldest symphony in the US), Cincinnati ChamberOrchestra, Northern Kentucky Symphony, Vocal Arts Ensemble,Cincinnati Opera, Cincinnati Ballet, Cincinnati Playhouse in the

Park, and Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati. Additionally, its May Festival is the oldest choral music eventin theWestern Hemisphere. Other cultural attractions include the Cincinnati Art Museum, Taft Museumof Art, Contemporary Arts Center (now at the new Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art), CincinnatiZoo & Botanical Gardens, Krohn Conservatory (one of the nation’s largest public greenhouses), NewportAquarium, and the Cincinnati Museum Center (home to the Museum of Natural History & Science, theCincinnati History Museum, Cinergy Children’s Museum, and other institutions).And of course, for sports fans, there are many professional teams such as the Reds (baseball), Bengals

(football), Cyclones (hockey), and Riverhawks (soccer). One can also attend thoroughbred and harnessracing, NASCAR racing, and the Masters & Women’s Open (tennis).

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For more about the graduate programs in musicology and theory, contact:Joel Hoffman, Head of the Division of Composition, Musicology, and Theory

Email: <[email protected]>Phone: (513) 556-6046

Online information at <www.ccm.uc.edu/comp_theory_hist>

For admission, assistantships, and graduate scholarships contact:Office of Admissions and Academic Services

College-Conservatory of MusicUniversity of Cincinnati

PO Box 210003Cincinnati, OH 45221-0003Phone: (513) 556-5463

Online information at <www.ccm.uc.edu/admissions>

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