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MMus Music

  • DeadlineStudy Details:

    MMus Full-time: 1 year, Part-time: 2 years

Course Description

Our Music MMus offers you the highest level of training in contemporary music. We’ll teach you the necessary skills, techniques and methodologies to work at an advanced level with a critical awareness of relevant music disciplines.

Our award-winning staff are eminent practitioners and scholars in their respective fields. Operating over the widest range of style and practice, we’ll work closely with you in your musical development.

By joining the MMus Music programme, you will be part of a diverse and collaborative community of performers, composers, film-makers, animators, theorists, producers and sound engineers.

The MMus Music programme is integrated into the University of Surrey’s Department of Music and Media. The Department is home to a rich array of programmes, facilities and disciplines including the Music and Sound Recording (Tonmeister) programme. Graduates of the Department make up key members of today’s music industry and culture.

Entry Requirements

A minimum of a 2:1 undergraduate degree in a relevant subject. Real-world experience is also considered.

Applicants are required to submit a portfolio of relevant work, which must include a sample of writing (for example, an essay, sample of theoretical writing or a piece of written analysis). This must be your own unassisted work and properly referenced, demonstrate knowledge and insight of a particular music topic, and a minimum of 2,000 words. It can be material that you have created as part of previous coursework or published material.

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Fees

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Programme Funding

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Student Destinations

Current MMus graduates are successful composers, producers, performers, conductors, educators and researchers, active in a range of musical disciplines.

100 per cent of our Department of Music and Media postgraduate students go on to employment or further study (Graduate Outcomes 2023, HESA).

Module Details

  • COMPOSITION A Optional 1
  • COMPOSITIONAL PROGRAMMING A Optional 1
  • MUSIC PROJECT A Optional 1
  • MUSICAL THEATRE Optional 1
  • PERFORMANCE A Optional 1
  • RESEARCH TRAINING Compulsory 1
  • STUDIO TECHNIQUES Optional 1
  • COMPOSITION B Optional 2
  • COMPOSITIONAL PROGRAMMING B Optional 2
  • DIGITAL PERFORMANCE Optional 2
  • MASTER’S PORTFOLIO Compulsory 2
  • MODERNISM AND POSTMODERNISM Optional 2
  • MUSIC PROJECT B Optional 2
  • PERFORMANCE A Optional 2
  • PERFORMANCE B Optional 2
  • RESEARCH TRAINING FOR PRACTITIONERS Compulsory 2
  • SCREEN MUSIC STUDIES Optional 2
  • TOPIC STUDY B Optional 2

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