Best Grad Programs for Music History

cathymee
Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:36:20 +0000

what I was thinking of,Mamenyu, was that contacting the schools Grad Coordinator might be of use to Cosmos in getting the proper advice.Its not clear whether he/she would be coming out with a Masters along with their BA.
It might save him/her some application money and angst over the process to get proper advice.
I know students change their direction and faculty direct a range of dissertation topics but it seems like the statement of purpose part of the application process is so important that it must influence a dep’ts choice of students to admit.
Are you a Musicologist as well? The names in the dep’ts are very familiar to you.
Strangely enough,D and I were talking about the guy from Berekely today who just wrote the big tome on musicology and is the “star” of the AMS meetings. She was saying she will probably come up against him in the next year or two when she presents…she says he’s always turned to first to comment on a presentation.She says everyone cowers in the conference hallways when he walks by (the grad students ,that is) and theres actually a Facebook group about him entitled “what would …his name…say”. Is that Taruskin?