| The Boston Conservatory Department of Composition, Theory, and Music History Department Chair: Andy Vores Room 221 avores@bostonconservatory.edu 617 912-9107 Departmental Assistant: Andrew Jackson andrew_jackson@bostonconservatory.edu MM Oral Comprehensive Exams The Oral Comprehensive Examination is a graduation requirement for all MM candidates. It is a pass/fail examination held before the end of the spring semester. Students who fail the Oral Comprehensive Examination have a second opportunity at the end of the semester. Centered in the recital repertoire, the examination is designed to assess a student’s ability to integrate his or her performance training with the research and analytical skills developed in the Music History curriculum, as well as with an appropriate level of theory and analysis skills. Students are required to write their own program notes for the Graduate Recital. These program notes, submitted in advance to the panel, provide the starting point for the examination's discussion. As a part of the MU551 Introduction to Graduate Study syllabus all students will be guided in research and writing skills and participate in a mock oral examination. In the second year of the MM the Music Division holds two rounds of preparatory activity: an open informational meeting in the fall semester followed in the spring by smaller departmental mock oral examinations. Panel |