• Performance Portfolio: Consolidate and build on performance skills with a focus on stylistic interpretation, technique and creativity.
• Ensemble and Musical Direction Skills: Rehearse and perform with the aim to develop ensemble skills with an emphasis on musical direction, creative interpretation and technical skill.
• Postgraduate Research Methods: Undertake several tasks related to your discipline, including building a portfolio of work, documentation of research and dissertation proposal or project with an annotated bibliography.
• Critical Perspectives: Develop an understanding of key critical approaches to the study of popular music through examination of key literature. Study a series of important practitioners, genres and milestones from the landscape of popular music through analysis and critical thinking.
• Performance Portfolio 2: Building upon the work completed in Performance Portfolio 1, further develop skills as a performer. Key factors include the development and expansion of heightened technical performance ability, alongside interpretative and stylistic traits.
• Masters Level Project: Project or dissertation based around a research question of your choosing that has been developed during the research methods module and through discussion with the module leader.

OPTIONS

• Songwriting: Engage in the development, management, and execution of a high-quality song portfolio. The material may be in any genre with a final presentation of a portfolio with recordings of your compositions, lead sheets, and a written critique.
• Music Pedagogy: A placement to participate in learning and teaching activities based within a community music practice with the aim to develop and execute two observed sessions.
• Studio Recording: This module gives you the opportunity to engage in the development, management, and execution of a high-quality music production project. The course will combine practice with theory.

Progression

Studying at this level will broaden your horizons as a musician and scholar, to support you in a multi-faceted career. This master will enable you to explore areas of interest in greater depth, develop new skills and open new avenues of investigation both musically and academically.

Entry Requirements

Minimum of a 2:1 in a related undergraduate qualification, plus a successful audition and interview. Equivalent overseas qualifications will be considered.