Andrew Davis
Director of Graduate Studies
Associate Professor of Music Theory

120 School of Music Building
University of Houston
Houston, TX 77204–4017

email: adavis at uh.edu
office phone: 713 743 3294
graduate office phone: 713 743 3314
fax (Moores School of Music—please include a cover page): 713 743 3166
professional (Moores School of Music) web page (with short biography): http://www.music.uh.edu/people/davis.html.

This file last updated April 7, 2014 / Please report bad links or other problems to me by email to adavis at uh.edu.

go to: GRADUATE STUDIES INFORMATION | COURSES | GRADUATE COMPREHENSIVE EXAMS | LINKS AND ITEMS OF INTEREST


GRADUATE STUDIES INFORMATION:

For most questions concerning graduate studies at the University of Houston, please contact Chris Foster, Graduate Academic Advisor, at 713 743 3314, or email gradmusic at uh.edu. Also see the graduate studies web site at the Moores School of Music. For prospective graduate applicants to the Moores School of Music, see the web site for prospective graduate students. The Moores School of Music home page is here; the University of Houston home page is here.

More information is also available in the school of music's graduate handbook, available online at http://www.music.uh.edu/academics/handbook_grad/. No print version is available.

Additional information:

University of Houston graduate catalog: The university's graduate catalog is available online, at http://www.uh.edu/grad_catalog/. No print version is available.

Application for graduation: You may apply for graduation online, by logging in to your account at www.uh.edu/peoplesoft/mypeoplesoft/. Please use the electronic form—this is better than using the paper form and will minimze problems. Note that you must be registered in the semester in which you graduate; the university allows no exceptions. Contact Doug Goldberg for more information

Theses and documents: See the school of music's graduate handbook for more information on timing the defense, submission to committees, etc. For thesis formatting guidelines, including page ordering, sample title pages, copyright pages, signature pages, etc. etc., see the CLASS thesis and dissertation guidelines page online.


COURSES (out of date—my apologies; email me if updates are needed urgently)

[note: copies of all archived syllabi, course schedules, and reserve lists are available here in .pdf format. All material has been removed from the web, except material related to courses in progress.]

SPRING 2011:

MUSI 2214: Techniques of Music Since 1900. Copies of the syllabus / schedule
MUSI 2171: Aural Skills IV. Copies of the syllabus / schedule

FALL 2010:

MUSI 2210: Music Theory III. Copies of the syllabus / schedule
MUSI 2170: Aural Skills III. Copies of the syllabus / schedule

SUMMER 2010:

MUSI 6397: Graduate Music Theory Review I. Copies of the syllabus / schedule
MUSI 6397: Style Analysis. Copies of the syllabus / schedule

SPRING 2010:

MUSI 1311. Music Theory II. Copies of the syllabus / schedule
MUSI 1171. Aural Skills I. Copies of the syllabus / schedule

FALL 2009:
MUSI 1310. Music Theory I. Copies of the syllabus / schedule
MUSI 1170. Aural Skills I. Copies of the syllabus / schedule

SUMMER 2009: MUSI 6397: Graduate Theory Review II. Copies of the syllabus / schedule

SPRING 2009: MUSI 6397: Graduate Theory Review II. Copies of the syllabus / schedule

FALL 2008:
MUSI 6397: Graduate Theory Review I. Copies of the syllabus / schedule
MUSI 6397: Music and Text in Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera ("La solita forma" in the operas of Verdi). Copies of the syllabus / schedule / bibliography and reserves

SUMMER 2008: MUSI 1300: Fundamentals of Music. Copies of the syllabus / schedule

SPRING 2008:
MUSI 2214: Techniques of Music since 1900. Copies of the syllabus / schedule
MUSI 2171: Aural Skills IV. Copes of the syllabus / schedule

FALL 2007:
MUSI 2210: Music Theory III. Copies of the syllabus / schedule
MUSI 2170: Aural Skills III. Copies of the syllabus / schedule

SUMMER 2007:
MUSI 1311: Music Theory II. Copies of the syllabus / schedule
MUSI 1171: Aural Skills II. Copies of the syllabus / schedule

SPRING 2007:
MUSI 1311: Music Theory II. Copies of the syllabus / schedule
MUSI 1171: Aural Skills II. Copies of the syllabus / schedule

FALL 2006:
MUSI 1310: Music Theory I. Copies of the syllabus / schedule
MUSI 1170: Aural Skills I. Copies of the syllabus / schedule

SPRING 2006:
MUSI 4211: Advanced Analysis. Copies of the syllabus / schedule / reserve list
MUSI 6306: Post-Tonal Analysis. Copies of the syllabus / schedule / reserve list

FALL 2005:
MUSI 4210: Introduction to Large Forms. Copies of the syllabus / schedule / reserve list
MUSI 6397: Special-topics seminar: Operas of Mozart. Copies of the syllabus / schedule / reserve list

SPRING 2005:
MUSI 2211: Music Theory IV. Copies of the syllabus / schedule / reserve list
MUSI 2171: Aural Skills IV. Copies of the syllabus / schedule
MUSI 4211: Advanced Analysis. Copies of the syllabus / schedule / reserve list
MUSI6301: Pedagogy of Music Theory. Copies of the syllabus / schedule / reserve list

FALL 2004:
MUSI 2210: Music Theory III. Copies of the syllabus / schedule
MUSI 2170: Aural Skills III. Copies of the syllabus / schedule
MUSI 3214: Music Theory V. Copies of the syllabus / schedule
MUSI 6397: Special-topics seminar: Operas of Puccini and Strauss. Copies of the syllabus / schedule

SUMMER 2004:
MUSI 6397: Style Analysis. Copies of the syllabus / schedule

SPRING 2004:
MUSI 1311: Music Theory II. Copies of the syllabus / schedule
MUSI 1171: Aural Skills II. Copies of the syllabus / schedule
MUSI 4211: Advanced Analysis. Copies of the syllabus / schedule / reserve list

FALL 2003:
MUSI 1310: Music Theory I. Copies of the syllabus / schedule
MUSI 1170: Aural Skills I. Copies of the syllabus / schedule
MUSI 4210: Introduction to Large Forms. Copies of the syllabus / schedule / reserve list

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GRADUATE COMPREHENSIVE EXAMS

Some general information on preparing for a comprehensive exam in music, geared especially toward answering questions in music theory and discussing unidentified scores, is here: general comprehensive exam information. Think of this as a kind of general guide to studying for the comprehensive exams; use the more specific documents below to supplement the information.

Additional specific information on the music theory questions I write for the masters comprehensive exams at the Moores School of Music is here: theory-specific, masters comps information.

Brief additional information on the questions I write for the music theory portion of the doctoral comprehensive exams at the Moores School of Music is here: theory-specific, doctoral comps information.

INFORMATION FROM THE MM COMPREHENSIVE EXAMS STUDY SESSIONS: I hold a study session every semester, usually about one to two weeks before the MM comprehensive exam. The most recent of these occurred Thursday November 14 2014.

my handout from the study session (1.59 MB PDF):

contents of the handout:

1) p. 1: instructions for the score identification portion of the MM comprehensive exam. You'll see these same instructions when you take the exam—one sheet per score.

2) pp. 2–4: general guidelines on preparing for the score identification portion of the exam (also available by following the link above, at "general comprehensive exam information").

3) p. 5: key to scores discussed during the study session (we normally only have time to discusses the first five or six of these).

4) pp. 6–15: copies of scores discussed in the study session (10 scores; one page each).

A recording of the most recent recorded session, from Apriil 15 2013, is available here. The room was large and the audio may be softer than some would like (it'll depend on your equipment); if you have trouble hearing, try using headphones or external speakers.

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LINKS AND ITEMS OF INTEREST

UH library catalog
online research databases. New Grove Dictionary online, RILM, WorldCat, Oxford English Dictionary, etc. UH library barcode required—the number needed is below the barcode on the back of most UH ID cards.
UH academic calendars
UH final exam schedules
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences information on doctoral dissertations (pdf)
College of Liberal Arts and Social Scienes general information for graduate students
UH graduate catalog

Society for Music Theory
Texas Society for Music Theory
Centro Studi Giacomo Puccini, Lucca, Italy
Pi Kappa Lambda. National music honor society. I am the faculty president of the Zeta Tau chapter at the University of Houston.

pc set calculator. Good, basic calculator for pc sets and related information and properties, by David Walters, Mt. Allison University, New Brunswick, Canada.
12-tone matrix calculator. Useful calculator that creates a 12x12 matrix, given a 12-tone series entered by the user.

Houston Grand Opera
Metropolitan Opera
Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts
NPR World of Opera

Chronicle of Higher Education. Subscription needed for some content.
Houston Chronicle
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration weather maps (Houston/Galveston map)
Houston TranStar. Houston traffic information.
Houston Architecture Info Forum
Texas State Historical Association
Handbook of Texas Online

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last updated: April 19, 2010
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