Since its early beginnings, the Graduate Program in Music has worked to promote academic research and artistic practice, striving to produce new knowledge in music. Our graduates have successfully pursued professional work in the academic and artistic areas, both in Brazil and abroad. The graduate program seeks to foster innovation and research in music through exchanges and partnership agreements with other institutions, as well as through scientific meetings, workshops and masterclasses with distinguished performers and music scholars.
Scope: The Graduate Program in Music is characterized by a strong commitment to excellence in teaching and research, which is reflected in the composition of its faculty, research subjects and curriculum structure. The program aims to promote innovative musical studies incorporating research and practice in different aspects of music at the masters and doctoral levels. To prepare students for roles as artists, teachers and scholars, the program’s curriculum strives to offer advanced training that qualifies them to act in a critical way, with an emphasis on the artistic specificity of the area.
Mission Statements: The mission of the Graduate Program in Music at USP is to promote innovative musical studies that incorporate research and practice in various aspects and areas of music at the masters and doctoral levels. To achieve this mission, the specific goals are:
Training of students for careers as scholars and teachers in colleges and universities;
The development of innovative research that generates new knowledge in music and its connections;
The promotion of academic and artistic production in music.
Faculty
Concentration area: Musicology
Research line: Teory and Music Analisys
Adriana Lopes da Cunha Moreira
Paulo de Tarso Camargo Cambraia Salles
Silvia Maria Pires Cabrera Berg
Research line: Musicology and Etnomusicology
Mário Rodrigues Videira Junior
Silvia Maria Pires Cabrera Berg
Susana Cecília Almeida Igayara de Souza
Concentration area: Music Criation Process
Research line: Performance
Eduardo Henrique Soares Monteiro
Research line: Interpretative Questions
Eduardo Henrique Soares Monteiro
Susana Cecília Almeida Igayara de Souza
Research line: Music and Educacion: Criative Process, Teaching and Learning
Linha de Pesquisa: Sonologia: criação e produção musical
Fernando Henrique de Oliveira Iazzetta
Rodolfo Nogueira Coelho de Souza
Subjects
Line of Research in Performance
The candidate for the title of Master in the line of research in Performance should disburse a minimum of 96 (ninety-six) credits, distributed as follows:
- 28 (twenty-eight) credits, with at least fourteen (14) credits due to the semestral participation in compulsory practical subjects specifically related to the line of research in performance
- 68 (sixty-eight) credits in the preparation of the dissertation;
The candidate for the title of Doctor in the line of research in Performance, with the prior obtainment of the title of Master, shall disburse a minimum of 178 (one hundred seventy-eight) credits, distributed as follows:
- 35 (thirty-five) credits, at least 28 (twenty-eight) credits due to the semestral participation in compulsory practical subjects specifically related to the line of research in performance
- 143 (one hundred and forty-three) credits in the preparation of the thesis.
The candidate for the title of Doctor in the line of research in Performance, without first obtaining the title of Master, should disburse a minimum of 199 (one hundred and ninety-nine) credits, distributed as follows:
- 56 (fifty-six) credits, with at least 35 (thirty-five) credits due to the semestral participation in compulsory practical subjects specifically related to the line of research in performance
- 143 (one hundred and forty-three) credits in the preparation of the thesis;
Note: The student may substitute up to seven (7) credits for courses with special credits (with the agreement of the duly recognized official mentor on the specific form). The CCP will analyze and consider the application for incorporation of special credits. IV.2. Other Lines of Research
Compulsory subjects (only for line of research in performance)
Students in the line of research in Performance will be required to fulfill credits in compulsory practical subjects, to be chosen from the following: Master's degree (14 credits):
Musical Performance I-II (Piano, Strings and Guitar)
or
Laboratory Practice in Choral Conducting I-II
PhD (28 credits):
Topics in Performance I-IV (Piano, Strings and Guitar)
or
Topics in Choral Conducting I-IV
Direct PhD (35 credits):
Musical Performance I-II (Piano, Strings and Guitar) and
Topics in Performance I-III (Piano, Strings and Guitar)
or
Laboratory Practice in Choral Conducting I-II and
Topics in Choral Conducting I-III
Each of these courses disburse 7 (seven) credits. Master's degree students in Performance must comply with fourteen (14) credits, doctoral, 28 (twenty-eight) credits and direct doctorate students 35 (thirty-five) credits in compulsory subjects during the course.
Other Lines of Research
The candidate for a Master's Degree in other lines of research should disburse a minimum of 96 (ninety-six) credits, distributed as follows:
- 28 (twenty-eight) credits, with at least fourteen (14) credits in courses offered by the program, preferably related to the line of research in which the student is enrolled;
- 68 (sixty-eight) credits in the preparation of the dissertation;
The candidate for the title of Doctor in other lines of research, with the prior obtainment of the title of Master, shall disburse a minimum of 178 (one hundred seventy-eight) credits, distributed as follows:
- 35 (thirty-five) credits, with at least fourteen (14) credits in courses offered by the program, preferably related to the line of research in which the student is enrolled.
- 143 (one hundred and forty-three) credits in the preparation of the thesis.
The candidate for the title of Doctor in other lines of research, without first obtaining the title of Master, must disburse at least 199 (one hundred and ninety-nine) credits, distributed as follows:
- 56 (fifty-six) credits, with at least 28 (twenty-eight) credits in courses offered by the program, preferably related to the line of research in which the student is enrolled.
- 143 (one hundred and forty-three) credits in the preparation of the thesis;
Note: The student may substitute up to seven (7) credits for courses with special credits (with the agreement of the duly recognized official mentor on the specific form). The CCP will analyze and consider the application for incorporation of special credits.
Selective process
Application Requirements:
The admission to the program is carried out through an application process regulated by public notice published periodically in the Official Gazette of the State of São Paulo and on the program's website. Foreign students are required to be proficient in Portuguese with an intermediate or higher level, which can be validated by presenting the Certificate of Proficiency in Portuguese for Foreigners, CELPE-BRAS or the certificate from the Language Center of FFLCH-USP.
History
The Postgraduate Program in Music at the University of São Paulo was created through the reformulation and separation of the postgraduate programs at the School of Communications and Arts. As of 2007, programs that were previously grouped under the generic name of “Arts” (this is the first postgraduate course in Arts in Brazil, started in 1974, as well as the first doctorate in the area, implemented in 1980) , independently formed programs, namely: Performing Arts, Visual Arts and Music. This reformulation brought greater independence and agility to the programs and, consequently, greater consistency in the set of activities carried out in each of them.
Since its creation, the Postgraduate Program in Music (PPGMUS) has sought to promote innovative musical studies, combining academic research and artistic practice with the aim of generating new knowledge in music, offering the student body training that qualifies them. to act critically and innovatively. Thus, PPGMUS is characterized by a commitment to excellence in teaching, research, extension and artistic practice in its most diverse aspects.
Between the years 2012-2013 we had a substantial reformulation in the lines of research, in order to better adapt them to the artistic and academic performance of the teaching staff, creating favorable conditions for organizing the research and guidance processes developed in the Program in a more consistent and vertical way.