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The Musicology/Ethnomusicology Division is unusual in American academia for its integration of musicology and ethnomusicology, history and ethnography; we encourage our students to challenge the shifting boundaries between Western "art" repertories, non-Western traditions, and popular music. Students receive solid training in a variety of historical, historiographical, analytical, cultural, and ethnographic issues before specializing in a historical period, geographical area, or a combination of these and other fields.
A brief history of our division
Overview of graduate studiesThe Division of Musicology and Ethnomusicology at any given moment has between 40 and 50 graduate students registered, more or less equally divided between majors in Historical Musicology and majors in Ethnomusicology. Approximately 35 to 40% of the students are at the Ph.D. dissertation stage, and a few of them are not resident in Austin while they write. Also, several Ethnomusicology students may be away doing fieldwork during a given year. Historical Musicology currently has more Ph.D. students than M.M. students, while Ethnomusicology currently has more M.M. students than Ph.D. students, but the numbers fluctuate from year to year. International students come most frequently from other nations in the hemisphere, with a few from Asian countries. The Ethnomusicology program has strong ties with the Department of Anthropology and various area studies programs, while Historical Musicology has close connections with Music Theory and performance programs in the School of Music as well as fields in the humanities. However, a common core of graduate courses in the Division is required for both Musicology and Ethnomusicology majors alike.
Fellowships and teaching assistantships
Each of the two areas seeks to enroll 3 to 5 new students per year. Graduate applicants with very high GRE scores may qualify for University Fellowships awarded by the Graduate School competitively throughout the University. Though teaching assistantships are usually not given to first-year Master's students, most students come with some form of financial aid. In Historical Musicology, teaching assistantships are available for the freshman-level music appreciation course for non-majors, Introduction to Western Music (MUS 302L) and for the three-semester music history survey for music majors (MUS 313M, 313N, and 330M). Upon occasion, experienced TAs at the doctoral level may be appointed as Assistant Instructors for MUS 302L, meaning that they are the instructors of record. In Ethnomusicology, students serve as TAs in the freshman-level World Music course (MUS 303M), the non-major course on Rock Music (MUS 307), the upper-division MUS 334 courses on Latin American music, and in several of the ethnomusicology performance ensembles. Sometimes a doctoral student is asked to teach either 303M or 307 as an Assistant Instructor.Graduate student association
In the fall of 2000, graduate students in the Division formed the Association of Graduate Ethno / Musicology Students (AGEMS) to represent their common concerns. The Association played a significant role in the searches for two new faculty members in the division by devising a student survey form for evaluating the candidates, administering it to classes and lecture audiences, and reporting the results to the faculty search committees. Students in the Division were also active with music theory students in organizing the successful midwinter GAMMA-UT conference. Every year, a number of graduate students, together with faculty, take part in national meetings of relevant professional societies such as the American Musicological Society, the Society for Ethnomusicology, and the Society for American Music.
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