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Study Details: 1 year (full-time), 2 years (part-time)
The MA in Popular Music is designed for performers, songwriters/composers and musicologists to develop their practical and creative skills, as well as their theoretical understanding, to an advanced level. You will be able to engage with the wider Department and the industry or further explore your subject of interest independently.
Candidates are likely to be graduates or professionals working in the music business who want to continue their development as creative musicians. The programme offers candidates the opportunity to shape their learning through a series of modules that enable them to integrate scholarly work with their own practice as a musician. Modules will consider current theoretical and practical debates in the subject area, and guide students through the kind of research methodologies required at MA level. Candidates are given the opportunity to negotiate the most effective means of approaching their area of study, with a view to producing an intensive study of their specialism.
As the programme progresses, candidates can start investigating some of these issues in the form best suited to the study of the subject. In other words, modules are carefully organised to help students produce exciting music in their chosen area. These areas, after negotiation with the tutors involved, revolve around the student’s preferred method of exploration. In the final phase of the MA this will result in the production of a substantial final piece of work, for example, a
Applicants will normally hold a 1st or 2:1 honours degree in a related subject. Where applicants are not progressing directly from a degree, professional experience and expertise may be taken into account.
Applicants will be expected to attend an audition and/or interview and/or produce a portfolio of compositions in order to demonstrate their suitability for the course.
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Graduates of the MA Popular Music will be prepared for careers as composers and/or songwriters, performers, session musicians, musical directors, teachers, lecturers and a variety of other pathways.
Modules will consider current theoretical and practical debates in the subject area.
Students begin their study with Research Methods, which is a core module. This introduces candidates to research methodologies and strategies appropriate to the study of performing arts and exemplars of application.
A second core module, The Mechanics of Music, aims to equip students with the skills required to critically investigate performance, composition and text in support of their specialist discipline.
Alongside this will be modules that allow students to intensively explore their chosen discipline (as performers, composer/songwriters or musicologists). This culminates in the final phase of the MA, which results in the production of a substantial final piece of work – for example, a large-scale performance, a portfolio of original music, or a written dissertation.
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