To ensure that students’ education is well-rounded and creatively inspired, Texas State offers a large variety of performing opportunities, including participation in opera productions, choir, orchestra, and concert and marching bands, chamber ensembles, award-winning mariachi and salsa ensembles and other vibrant cultural music groups.

The music programs prepare students to excel in the disciplines of music teaching, history, conducting, composition, theory, and performance.

Course Work

The School of Music offers advanced study within 15 concentrations.

The master of music (M.M.) degree requires 36 credit hours.

Concentrations include: choral conducting, composition, history and literature, instrumental conducting, jazz performance, keyboard, string, or guitar performance, Latin music performance, performance and pedagogy (classical instruments/voice), theory, voice performance, and woodwind, brass, or percussion performance.

Career Options

Students will find a variety of career options:

Authoring or editing music publications

Composing/arranging music for film, professional ensembles or commercial projects

Conducting professional ensembles

Performing with opera companies, symphony orchestras,

Jazz ensembles or Latin ensembles

Teaching in public or private schools, colleges and private studios

Writing professional articles and textbooks