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MA in Music

Duration: 1 year full-time, 2.7 years part-time

Entrance Requirements: Normall a 2.1 Homours degree with Music as a main subject or equivalent recognised qualification. 

Aim: This programme offers students the opportunity to explore a wide variety of research and composition fields including Irish Music, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Opera, Performance and Manuscript Studies; Words and Music (leading composers’ writings), Set Works, Techniques and Portfolio. All students take a compulsory Research Methods module, which provides a solid introduction to methodologies in a range of these specialist areas, and a double module (Dissertation, Edition and Commentary or Portfolio) giving students the opportunity to conduct research or composition at a professional level. The focus is on developing core skills essential to the practising musicologist or composer, both with regard to professional work and progression to doctoral work. There is also a wide range of optional modules, including an Arts Administration module featuring work placement and strategy research with local arts organisations; musicology students can select an option from the composition courses, and composers likewise are encouraged to select from musicology options. IN CONSULTATION WITH THE PATHWAY CONVENOR, Students may design their own Independent Study in areas not covered by the specialisms listed above. The programme also features modules in the critical analysis of the work of twentieth century and contemporary composers, providing a thorough experience and understanding of the contemporary compositional idiom.


 Student Work:
  •  Nollaig Casey-McGlynn, Eibhlín a Rúin:
    Song and Story     and the Impact of 
    Fashion in its Dissemination in 
    Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century
    Ireland     (2010) 
  • Susan McCormick, The Choralbuch of
    Johann Christian Kittel: Its Significance
    in Our Understanding of Bach’s Legacy
    (2009) 

Assessment:  A combination of assessed project work, assessed seminar presentations, analytical composition projects, submission of portfolio or dissertation and assessed recital. 

Funding: MA Funding

Please contact Dr Sarah McCleave if you would like further information about this course. Applicants are advised that interviews for the MA in Music will normally be completed by the end of May. You are therefore advised to submit supporting material (essays for all applicants to the MA in Music) as soon as it is requested, and to check your email on a regular basis for correspondence regarding your application.

 

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