Nov 26, 2024  
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog

Pedagogy - Voice (M.M.)


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Kathryn Green, Professor of Music
Ruebush Hall, Room 238; (540) 665-4556; kgreen@su.edu

The Master of Music in Pedagogy - Voice curriculum prepares post-baccalaureate students for meaningful and satisfying careers as private voice teachers. The curriculum encompasses contemporary and classical functional training for the singing voice. Interdisciplinary courses targeting pedagogy, anatomy, technology, career skills and applied voice lessons provide the education required to succeed professionally as a voice pedagogue.

This degree could be called a “low residency” online program, as it can be completed almost fully online or by a combination of face-to-face and online courses. We have three residency courses in the summer that are part of the CCM Vocal Pedagogy Institute which we strongly encourage students to attend in person.

Program Outcomes

Students completing the Master of Music in Pedagogy degree will be able to:

  • utilize voice science and related pedagogical concepts in the teaching of voice, and
  • perform collaboratively at an advanced level of study commensurate with the master degree

Admission to the Master of Music in Pedagogy with a Keyboard or Instrumental focus has been temporarily suspended. The program has not been terminated but no applications are being accepted at this time.

Degree Requirements

The Classical Voice degree requirement is 31 credit hours and an overall grade point average of 3.0.  The Contemporary Commercial Music degree requirement is 33 credit hours and an overall grade point average of 3.0.

Total CCM Majors: 31 credits


*Minimum grade of “C” required.


Total Classical Majors: 29 credits


*Minimum grade of “C” required.

A minimum of two semesters of foreign language study at the undergraduate level is required for all entering masters students in Classical Voice Pedagogy. Specifically, students must have a minimum of one semester in two of the following languages: French, German, Italian, or Spanish. Deficiencies in this area will be identified in the initial transcript analysis by the Conservatory Office.

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