5 courses, or equivalent (2.5 credits):

• 1 required course (1.0 credit): 9518 Composition
• 3 other courses (1.5 credits), normally: 
  • 9512 Advanced Orchestration
  • 9533 Electroacoustic Music Composition
  • 9556 Studies in Contemporary Repertoire

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To support success in graduate studies, all incoming graduate students are required to complete the School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (SGPS) Academic Integrity Module in order to progress beyond the first term of their degree. Eligible students can access the module in the Graduate Student Web Services Portal.

Students who do not complete the module will not be able to progress beyond the first term of their degree.

By the end of the second term students should identify a thesis supervisor.

During the third term, students should work with the thesis supervisor to identify the genre, instrumental media, organization, and length of the thesis composition and work toward preparing the thesis proposal.

By the end of the fourth term, following approval by the thesis supervisor and second reader, the thesis proposal should be submitted to the Graduate Committee through the Associate Dean (Graduate Studies) for final approval.

MMus thesis proposal guidelines

The thesis for the MMus in Composition is an original composition, usually 10-15 minutes in duration. The duration of the composition may vary depending on several factors including the instrumentation and complexity of the work and must be approved by the thesis supervisor.

By the end of the fifth term the thesis should be submitted and successfully defended.

All procedures and formatting found in the School of Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies' (SGPS) Thesis Regulation Guide must be followed in the preparation of a thesis.

Please note the deadlines set by SGPS for thesis submission and scheduling of the defense.

Note about recordings: A recording of the thesis composition is not required. However, many students arrange a recorded reading or performance of their composition, which often takes place after the SGPS thesis submission deadline. You must submit your thesis by the SGPS deadline whether or not a recording exists. A digital recording, if available, may be included at the time of thesis submission; it may not be distributed to examiners separately after that point.