Songwriting (Campus Based) MA
Bath Spa University
Key Information
Campus location
Bath, United Kingdom
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
1 year
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Introduction
Songwriting (Campus Based) MA
From day one, you’ll write songs, using alternative strategies designed to work alongside your current creative approaches.
Applying practice-based learning at our world-heritage research centres, through a range of creative strategies and critical perspective on your songs’ relationship with audience and industry, you’ll develop and focus your output. This is informed by a blend of practical, theoretical and scholarly practice.
Lyric-writing, and a fluent command of imagery, metaphor, and narrative is nurtured, as chords and melody take shape around language’s meaning, and vice versa. You’ll investigate the power and potential of song forms, modes of address, perspectives, time-frames, and characters.
Having stretched the range of creative options available to you within your own artistic palette, you’ll turn your hand to research; this is your entry to the postgraduate world. You’ll identify the industrial context relevant to your songs; your knowledge of your field will become intensified through primary research, secondary research, and contact with guest speakers from industry. Collaborating with songwriters from near and far will increase your creative and networking range. Ahead of your Major Project, contextual and collaborative research perform the vital task of shaping your song outputs.
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Curriculum
This course includes or offers the following modules. Please check the programme document (below the main image on this page) for more information.
- Songwriting Skills
- Song, Culture and Identity
- Research Methodologies and Context
- Professional Collaboration
- Workstation Song Production
- Major Project
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Career Opportunities
There’s a broad range of professional outcomes from this course and our graduates now work as:
- Performers
- Lecturers
- Researchers
- Agents
- Signed artists
- Signed writers
- Teachers
- Therapists
- Publishers
This course also provides an excellent grounding if you’re interested in going on to PhD study.
English Language Requirements
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