Financing grad school for MM in performance

compmom
Wed, 27 Nov 2019 01:36:22 +0000

I do know of doctoral programs (DMA) with a master’s as part of the program, rather than a terminal master’s. A terminal master’s is just a master’s degree on its own that is not part of a doctoral program. In some doctoral programs you cannot do the master’s without going on to the doctorate, so those would be non-terminal, so to speak.

I would think instrumentalists might be less likely to want a doctorate, and I agree that many MM’s would not be part of a DMA program in the way I described. (It is true that composers generally get PhD’s but some get DMA’s. Composers, I think, have a harder time making a living in their craft and tend to stay in academia, which requires a doctorate generally.)

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