Music Theory PhD Statistics?

EarlGr8
Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:54:04 +0000

I agree with mamenyu that most of the “top” theory grad programs tend to lie on the Eastern seaboard (whereas West Coast has destinations for ethno/musicology etc), if obtaining a professorship is one’s goal (which, for most all theory doctoral students, it is). Yale is indeed one of the big guns in terms of track record. Add CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia to that circle too, although I’m not sure if either have CORE faculty that focus on jazz music.

An option to consider if son’s is really committed to scholarship on jazz - maybe going down the ethnomusicology route might be more fruitful than the theory route? If nothing else, it will certainly open up infinitely more departments to do a PhD.