Composition and Creative Music Practice MA
DURATION
1 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
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STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
Introduction
A one-year, full-time postgraduate program, the MA Composition and Creative Music Practice is designed to develop individual artistic practice and facilitate collaborative exploration of cross-genre, cross-arts and cross-cultural creativity. Students create acoustic and/or electronic music through an inclusive range of composition, improvisation and performance practices. The program welcomes students from all music traditions (traditional, folk, popular, world, classical) and sound art practices, working with and/or without music notation.
The MA Composition and Creative Music Practice is:
- Ideal for creative musicians who wish to work within a particular tradition and/or at the intersections of Irish traditional music, classical music, โnewโ and experimental music, popular music and world musics
- Progressive and interdisciplinary in its approach to creativity, supporting cross-arts exploration, collaboration and inventiveness
- Designed to develop the complementary creative music practices of composition, performance and improvisation
- Committed to developing oral/aural creative processes and/or score-based practices towards the creation of acoustic and/or electro-acoustic music
- Inclusive of diverse, local and global music traditions and practices
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Scholarships and Funding
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Curriculum
Semester 1
Workshop in Creative Music Practice
- Professional Development for the Performing Arts
- Peer Forum 1
- Composing Traditions Seminar
Creative Pathways 1 - choose one of the following:
- Creating for the Voice
- Performance Practice (Academy Ensembles and Individual Tuition)
- Real-time Audio and Video
Semester 2
Inter-Arts Music Making
- Critical Contexts of Arts Management and Cultural Policy
- Peer Forum 2
- Elective Modules
Creative Pathways 2 - choose of the following
- Creating for Strings
- Performance Practice (Academy Ensembles and Individual Tuition
- Improvisation
Semester 3
- Final Project
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Career Opportunities
Graduates emerge with unique artistic profiles to pursue diverse careers as composers, sound artists, improvisers, performers, educators and arts-practice scholars.