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Graduate Mentor Study

Study Guides

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Requirements

The graduate study guide is designed to prepare students for their respective Comprehensive Exams, to be studied under the direction of their private lesson instructor.

Each week entails the study of three artists, out of 33 for each semester. By the end of the third semester, students would have then studied 100 artists, as needed to take their exam during their final semester.

In general, it is necessary to retain at least the following for each artist:

  • Full Name
  • Genre/Era
  • Birth year and location
  • Death year
  • Styles famous for
  • Ensembles known for
  • 3 transcriptions from artists of your choosing, each semester. Each one must be;
    • At least 36 bars in length, or
    • 3 choruses of a Blues solo

Students are expected to independently prepare and present each semesters’ required work to his/her studio professor. As a portion of your lesson grade for each semester, the following is to be submitted to your studio professor no later than the last day of lessons or on your semester jury exam:

  • a written historical summary of artists studied, and
  • a PDF copy of the latest written transcriptions