The Artist Diploma: Professional Certificate in Music Performance is for students who have completed either an undergraduate or graduate degree in music, and is designed to produce musicians capable of entering and sustaining careers in the work force as professional musicians.

Program Requirements

Artist Diploma students in string performance are required to participate in orchestra every semester of residency. Artist Diploma students in classical guitar, woodwind, brass, percussion, voice and jazz performance programs are required to participate in an assigned ensemble each semester of residency.

Required (13 units)

Applied Lessons on Instrument/Voice/Conducting (6 units)

MUS 591 - Individual Instruction (1)
MUS 592 - Individual Instruction (2)

Ensembles (4 units)

MUS 406A - Major Performance Ensemble/Symphony Orchestra (1)
MUS 406B - Major Performance Ensemble/Concert Choir (1)
MUS 406C - Major Performance Ensemble/University Symphonic Winds (1)
MUS 406D - Major Performance Ensemble/Opera Theatre (1)
MUS 406E - Major Performance Ensemble/University Singers (1)
MUS 406F - Major Performance Ensemble/Wind Symphony (1)
MUS 406H - Major Performance Ensemble/Opera Orchestra (1)
MUS 406L - Major Performance Ensemble/Jazz Ensemble I (1)
MUS 406M - Major Performance Ensemble/The Singing Titans (1)
MUS 406S - Major Performance Ensemble/Jazz Ensemble II (1)
MUS 406U - Major Performance Ensemble/University Band (1)
MUS 406V - Jazz Singers (1)
MUS 406W - Major Performance Ensemble/Titan Voices (1)
MUS 407C - Cello Choir (1)
MUS 407D - Percussion Ensemble (1)
MUS 407E - Brass Ensemble (1)
MUS 407G - Guitar Orchestra (1)
MUS 407K - Clarinet Choir (1)
MUS 407Y - Diverse Instrument Ensemble (1)
MUS 408B - Chamber Music Ensemble/Brass (1)
MUS 408C - Collegium Musicum (1)
MUS 408G - Chamber Music Ensemble/Guitar (1)
MUS 408J - Chamber Music Ensemble/Jazz Combo (1)
MUS 408K - Chamber Music Ensemble/Keyboard (1)
MUS 408S - Chamber Music Ensemble/Strings (1)
MUS 408W - Chamber Music Ensembles/Woodwind (1)
MUS 408X - Chamber Music Ensemble/Saxophone (1)

Recital (3 units from the following)

MUS 597 - Project (1-3)

Electives (11 units, adviser-approved)

Ensembles

Any MUS 406, MUS 407 or MUS 408 courses

Independent Study

MUS 599 - Independent Graduate Research (1-3)

History/Theory

MUS 418 - 18th-Century Counterpoint (2)
MUS 419 - Advanced Form and Analysis (3)
MUS 420 - Compositional Techniques since 1945 (3)
MUS 422 - Composition (2)

Literature

MUS 451 - Jazz History and Style (3)
MUS 453A - Choral Literature (2)
MUS 453B - Choral Literature (2)
MUS 454A - Piano Literature (2)
MUS 454B - Piano Literature (2)
MUS 455 - Wind Ensemble Literature (3)
MUS 456 - Opera Literature (3)
MUS 457A - Song Literature (2)
MUS 457B - Song Literature (2)
MUS 458 - Symphonic Literature (3)
MUS 459A - Guitar Literature (2)
MUS 459B - Guitar Pedagogy (2)
MUS 462 - World Music for Music Majors (3)

Improvisation

MUS 464 - Jazz Improvisation III (1)

Pedagogy

MUS 463S - Violin Playing Topics (1)
MUS 465V - Advanced Vocal Workshop (1)
MUS 466 - Pedagogy Observation and Internship (1)
MUS 467A - Piano Pedagogy (2)
MUS 467B - Piano Pedagogy (2)
MUS 467C - Piano Pedagogy (2)
MUS 468 - Vocal Pedagogy (2)
MUS 469 - Jazz Pedagogy (2)
MUS 477 - Piano Pedagogy Practicum (3)
MUS 484 - Performance Techniques for Voice (2)
MUS 567 - Seminar in Piano Pedagogy (3)

Graduate Seminars

MUS 524 - Seminar in Music Theory (3)
MUS 552 - Seminar in Music of the Renaissance (3)
MUS 553 - Seminar in Music of the Baroque Period (3)
MUS 554 - Seminar in Music of the Classic Period (3)
MUS 555 - Seminar in Music of the Romantic Period (3)
MUS 556 - Seminar in Twentieth-Century American Music (3)
MUS 570P - Seminar in Piano Literature (2)

Total (24 units)

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