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Bachelor of Arts in Music Composition Bachelor of Arts in Ethnomusicology Bachelor of Arts in Historical Musicology Bachelor of Arts in Music Theory Master of Arts in Musicology Master of Philosophy in Musicology Doctor of Philosophy in Musicology Master of Arts in Composition Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition
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The Department of Music at Columbia University is organized into four academic "areas," reflecting the major divisions of modern musical scholarship. These areas administer distinctive tracks within our graduate program, leading to the degrees of PhD in Musicology (with a specialization in Ethnomusicology, Historical Musicology, or Music Theory) or the DMA in Composition.While faculty members, post-doctoral fellows, and graduate students are listed as affiliated with particular areas, many of us are members of two or three different areas, and all of us work across these borders to some extent. We embrace an increasingly interdisciplinary approach to music scholarship, even as we maintain longstanding commitments to our core disciplines. The areas also work together to provide a broad and comprehensive undergraduate offering for both music majors and the larger undergraduate constituency of the Department. Several distinctive scholarly and musical foci cross-cut our area divisions as well, such as our broad coverage of issues in American music, and our diverse approaches to music/language relationships.
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Magdalena Stern-Baczewska, Susan Boynton, Alessandra Ciucci, Seth Cluett, Zosha Di Castri, Julia Doe, Joseph Dubiel, Kevin Fellezs, Aaron A. Fox, Walter Frisch, Brad Garton, Giuseppe Gerbino, Georg Friedrich Haas, Ellie M. Hisama, Mariusz Kozak, George E. Lewis, Jeffrey Milarsky, Ana Maria Ochoa Gautier, Elaine Sisman, Benjamin Steege, Peter M. Susser, Chris Washburne.
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