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Study Details: MA 1 year full-time; 2 years part-time
Discovering your compositional voice and presenting it with clarity in compelling, innovative music is a lifelong project. Our MA is designed to help you develop the skills to pursue this, whatever your career aspirations.
Our internationally-renowned composition staff work across a range of styles and media and our students are similarly diverse. Solo or orchestral music, electronic or acoustic, notated, improvised or devised – all of these are valued at York. You'll encounter a wide variety of approaches, but no prescriptions.
You'll join a lively community of postgraduate composers and the rich creative environment of the School of Arts and Creative Technologies, receiving one-to-one tuition and studying the established and emerging techniques in this exciting and constantly developing field.
Contemporary music has been a cornerstone of the Department since its foundation. From early visits from Cage, Feldman and Shostakovich and the creation of pioneering electroacoustic works by Trevor Wishart and Dennis Smalley to the Proms commissions, Glastonbury appearances and international tours of recent alumni such as Anna Meredith, Kerry Andrew and Christian Mason, York has a long history of nurturing extraordinary talent.
2:2 or equivalent in Music or another relevant subject.
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By the end of the course, you'll have a firm understanding and facility across a range of approaches to contemporary composition. You will be able to use this to develop independent creative outputs, whether these are led by your own artistic voice or are responses to specific briefs from collaborators. You'll also be able to reflect critically on your creative decisions, and communicate your ideas about composition in writing and speech, skills that are highly valued in any sector. MA Music graduates go on to a diverse range of careers as creative artists and teachers, as well as administrative work and further study at both universities and conservatoires.
Career opportunities:
Core modules
Semester 1
Creative and Critical Practice I
The Contemporary Composer's Kitchen
Research Skills for Musicians OR Composition for Film and TV I*
Semester 2
Creative and Critical Practice II
Instrumentation / Orchestration OR The Use(s) of Tonality*
*You can choose to study one of these modules per semester. The others will be available as option modules.
Option modules
You'll also study one option module, or alternatively complete the Extended Creative Practice Portfolio as your final project. Examples of option modules may include:
Case Studies in Music History II
Composition for Film and TV I
Music and Human Flourishing
Instrumentation / Orchestration
Research Skills for Musicians
The Piano Today
The Use(s) of Tonality
Some option module combinations may not be possible. The options available to you will be confirmed after you begin your course.
Our modules may change to reflect the latest academic thinking and expertise of our staff, and in line with Department/School academic planning.
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