Individual instruction for Distinguished Major recitalists who wish to spend a year preparing a full-length recital. Prerequisite: At least one semester of lessons at the 3000 level; successful written application to the Distinguished Major Program; successful audition, normally at the end of the semester preceding 4000-level study; and permission of instructor. There is an additional fee for private lessons. Please contact the McIntire Department of Music for information.

Performance Instruction for students in the Music Performance Concentration Prerequisite: MUPF 3960. Student must simultaneously register for MUSI 4950: Performance Concentration Seminar.

Performance Instruction for students in the Music Performance Concentration Prerequisite: MUPF 4950. Student must simultaneously register for MUSI 4950: Performance Concentration Seminar.

Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

This is a crash course in thinking and writing about music from many different perspectives. It is also an introduction to some of the ways we think about music and sound in the UVa music department. And it is an opportunity for you to think about the enterprise of being an academic in music and in the humanities. We will also focus a bit on teaching and University life.

A graduate-level seminar in interactive technology for music and multimedia.  Students explore theoretical, creative and practical aspects of programming, composing and performing real-time interactive music with computers. 

A course primarily for advanced composition students. Enlarges the notion of scoring, familiar in talk of "film scores," to explore the idea of scoring many kinds of activities. Possibilities include a favorite chapter in a book, still images, scoring in response to a musical performance, and many more.

Improvisation is prevalent in jazz, creative music, Western new music, hip hop, gospel, and many folk and/or non-Western cultural music traditions. This course focuses on the practice of composing for improvisers. Students will create and perform new works, expand their knowledge of compositional approaches to improvisation, and increase their abilities in open improvisation.

Current Studies in Research and Criticism Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Studies the field of ethnomusicology. Specific issues and cultural areas addressed depend on the interests of students and the instructor. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.