MMus Creative Practice
Goldsmiths, University of London
Key Information
Campus location
London, United Kingdom
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
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Pace
Full time, Part time
Tuition fees
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Application deadline
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Introduction
MMus Creative Practice
This flexible Masters is an opportunity to investigate and combine strategies for developing creative work – an inclusive and forward-thinking composition degree that acknowledges many different definitions of the term.
You will devise a coherent yet bespoke programme of study from an extensive list of options, and have the opportunity to uniquely blend practices from popular music, sound art, contemporary composition, ethnography and multi-media work. These modules help you engage with a variety of rigorous intellectual, critical and technical skills that will inform your work and culminate in a substantial creative project.
Depending on your module choices, you have access to the Electronic Music Studios (which offer advanced facilities for electro-acoustic composition, multichannel work and live/interactive performance) and the new Goldsmiths Music Studios (which offers an HD Pro-tools recording system and large format analogue desk). You will have the opportunity to write for and collaborate with your fellow composers and performers, and in-house ensembles; and furthermore develop collaborative and interdisciplinary projects in conjunction with other departments.
The programme is exceptionally useful for students preparing for further postgraduate practice-as-research projects, or for those wishing to develop a distinctive portfolio of work for entry into the creative industries.
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
Several scholarship options are available. Please check the university website for more information.
Curriculum
Compulsory modules
- Compositional Techniques
- Popular Music Composition
- Studio Practice
Option modules
- Analysing Contemporary Music: From Serialism to Spectral Noise
- Audiovisual Composition
- Composition and Moving Image Media
- Compositional Techniques
- Contemporary Ethnomusicology
- Contemporary Music: Practices and Debates
- Critical Musicology and Popular Music
- Ethnographic Film and Music Research
- Interactive and Generative Music
- Material, Form and Structure
- Music Management
- New Directions in Popular Music Research
- Popular Music and its Critics
- Popular Music Composition
- Performance as Research (Ethnomusicology)
- Research through Musical Performance
- Sound Agendas
- Studio Practice
- Philosophies of Music
- Advanced Strategies in Creative Music Production
Program Tuition Fee
English Language Requirements
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