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Program focuses on musicology and ethnomusicology as well as composition, giving particular but not exclusive emphasis to North American music, including jazz and urban popular music, religious music, concert music, and folk music in rural and urban localities.

Special prominence is given to ethnomusicology, contemporary concert music, jazz and South Indian music, as well as popular music.

Our professors include ethnomusicologists, music historians, music theorists and composers.

You’ll have access to a wide range of specialized facilities and resources including: analogue and digital piano labs; piano/practice modules; ethnomusicology and jazz archives, York’s Sound & Moving Image Library; and popular music archives.

Degrees Offered

Degrees Offered:

	Full time	Part time
MA	X	X
PhD	X	X

Deadlines and Dates

Deadlines and Dates:

Dates & Deadlines
Start Date	September
Deadlines	December 15 EXTENDED TO: February 1, 2010

Deadline date means: Date a completed application package is received by York.
Completed Application Package means:
1. Use York University's graduate studies online application.
2. Send all required and supplementary documents and materials in a single package. (Exception: official transcripts sent to York directly from previous educational institutions. Official transcripts must come directly from, and bear the unbroken seal of, the issuing institution.) See checklist (PDF).
Mail or Courier Completed Application Package to:

Mail
York University
Office of Graduate Admissions
P.O. Box GA2300
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, ON
CANADA M3J 1P3

Courier
York University
Office of Graduate Admissions
W322 Bennett Centre for Student Services
99 Ian MacDonald Blvd
Toronto, ON
CANADA M3J 1P3

Streams & Specializations

Streams and Specializations:

Ethnomusicology
Musicology
Composition (MA only)
Popular music
Jazz

What you need to apply to this program

Minimum Admission Requirements:

Type	Requirements
Academic (GPA)	MA: B PhD: B+ International Students: refer to the international credentials information for your country.
Language Proficiency Do you need?	TOEFL Paper-based: 600 Computer-based: 250 iBT: 100 IELTS Overall Band Score: 7.5 YELT (York English Language Test) Band: 1
Recommendations	3
Othe	MA Statement of intent (500 words) Two samples of scholarly writing Resumé/CV Composition applicants also submit a portfolio (scores and recordings) PhD Statement of intent (500 words) Two samples of scholarly writing Resumé/CV

Because the number of applicants greatly exceeds the number of positions available, meeting our minimum admission requirements is not a guarantee of admission.

Prefer to receive an information package in the mail? (Package does not contain a paper application form — you must apply electronically.)

Focus on Faculty

Profile Text:

Lisette Canton

Lisette Canton is a choral and orchestral conductor, vocal coach and technician, adjudicator, workshop leader in choral conducting techniques and literature and early music specialist.