MA in Music
Welcome to the Music Department
The Music Department offers courses of study leading to the degrees of Master of Arts, Doctor of Musical Arts, and Doctor of Philosophy.
All programs are designed with an emphasis upon music within its interdisciplinary, cultural, and intellectual context. Our programs combine the comprehensive study of music literature, historical styles, and performance practices with the most recent analytical methodologies.
In addition to more conventional degree programs (Musicology, Performance, Composition), the Department of Music offers a degree in Historical Performance Practices, supported by a large collection of period instruments—harpsichords, a fortepiano, chamber organ, and various string/wind instruments—and the longstanding, internationally recognized departmental journal, Performance Practice Review.
The department also sponsors a public concert series that includes weekly faculty, guest artist, and student recitals.
Chair: Robert Zappulla
251 E. 10th Street • Claremont, CA 91711 • 909-607-3289 • Fax 909-607-3694
Robert Zappulla
Professor of Music
Fred W. Smith and Grace Hobson Smith Chair in Music
Chair, Department of Music
Programs
Music Department Faculty
Peter Boyer
Professor of Music
Helen M. Smith Chair in Music
Research Interests
Composition, Conducting, American film music, 20th- and 21st-Century music, American composers
Robert Zappulla
Professor of Music
Fred W. Smith and Grace Hobson Smith Chair in Music
Chair, Department of Music
Research Interests
Harpsichord, Historical performance practices, Baroque music
Jenny Soonjin Kim
Assistant Professor of Practice
Research Interests
Piano, Fortepiano, 18th & 19th-century performance practices, 20th century atonal piano compositions, digital keyboard laboratory, the board of directors of Los Angeles Master Chorale: Education Committee and Gala Host Committee
Mark Howard
Visiting Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Jean-Philippe Rameau, French Baroque Music, the History of Music Theory, Piano Music, and Opera
