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The Division of Music Education at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music offers
formal programs of study leading to Bachelor of Music in Music Education, Master of Music in Music Education, and Doctor of Music Education degrees. Drawing upon widely varied institutional and community resources, these programs integrate the high quality of music training and experience available in a conservatory environment with a strong program of pedagogical preparation. Graduates
of these programs enjoy a 100% placement rate, most often as school music teachers, community
arts personnel, church musicians, faculty members at colleges and universities, and students in
advanced programs of study.
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The Music Education Program
The music education program at CCM serves approximately 75 students in residence each year in our undergraduate, and graduate programs. Drawing upon widely varied institutional and community resources, Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral degrees are offered which:
- integrate the high quality of music training and experience available in a conservatory environment with a strong program of liberal education and professional-pedagogical preparation,
- draw upon the diversity of music teaching settings within the Cincinnati community (i.e., urban
and suburban, school-based and community-based), and
- are tailored to individual needs and interests through double degree options and, at the graduate level, through specialization studies in areas such as arts administration, choral, orchestral and
wind conducting, dance, music theater, early childhood education, educational administration,
jazz studies, Orff-Schulwerk, performance, instrumental music education, and urban music education.
Music Education graduates and faculty have a major impact on the musical life of the city, the region
and the nation through teaching in schools, colleges and universities, conducting and performing as principal chairs in major symphony orchestras, singing in lead roles in opera houses throughout the
world, and providing leadership through membership and elected positions with professional music
and education organizations.
The Music Education Facilities
The Music Education Division is located on the 5th floor of Mary Emery Hall: “The Penthouse” of CCM. Division Resources for students include a full research library and computer lab. The library contains
band and orchestra method books and scores, basal series, choral scores, and general reference works.
The computer lab is equipped with six G-5 Macintosh computers, each with a Yamaha PSR-640
keyboard. Software includes Microsoft Office, Safari, Finale, Sibelius, Music Ace, Essentials of Music
Theory, Pyware 3D Java and other titles. There is also audio-visual equipment available for reviewing, and/or recording lessons and music.
The Division History
Music Education programs at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music grew out of
the rich musical and educational traditions of the "Queen City of the West." While formal programs
of music teacher preparation were not initiated until the early 1920s, music instruction in the
Cincinnati Public Schools was introduced 60 years earlier. This instruction represented a pioneering
effort in a number of ways.
- Charles Aiken was the first paid music teacher in the public schools. (1843)
- In Cincinnati's first public high school, students had required music instruction for two periods per week for all four years. (1847)
- Students in grades 2-6 were released from "academic" subjects to receive instruction in the first "Class Piano" instruction program in the United States.
- Innovative liaisons were established between school and professional music organizations, such as the Cincinnati May Festival and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
- Early programs of music teacher preparation were undertaken by both the College of Music and the Conservatory of Music in affiliation with the University of Cincinnati. These programs were designed according to the standards of conservatory training and a university education, and shaped by the cultural and educational context of Cincinnati.
- The College and the Conservatory merged in 1955 and officially became a unit of the University in 1962.
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