MMus in Creative Practice, Goldsmiths, University of London

MMus in Creative Practice

Length:
1 year full-time or 2 years part-time.

Applying:

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For the pathways in Creative Practice, Composition, and Studio Composition, you should include with your application a short portfolio that provides selected examples of your recent creative work (e.g. musical scores, CD, DVD, as appropriate). These examples should be relevant to the focus of the pathway.
For Performance and Related Studies, if you are invited for interview you will be required to perform two contrasting works (not more than 15 minutes in total). Please bring your own accompanist if possible. International students may submit an audio or video recording of a performance, accompanied by a signed statement from an authority such as a teacher that the performance is the applicant’s own.

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Entrance requirements:

You should normally have, or expect to have, a first-class or upper second-class Honours degree in Music, or an equivalent qualification. Your qualification should comprise a substantial practical/creative element relevant to the selected MMus pathway and option choices. A detailed transcript of your degree is preferred.

We also encourage applications from people without formal qualifications who can demonstrate equivalent professional experience, in which case you may be asked to provide additional examples of your written work.

If your first language is not English, please check our English Language requirements.

Fees:
Please see Tuition fees.

Staff research interests:
Please see Staff research interests.

Contact the department:
Contact Ian Gardiner

About the department:
Music

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The MMus in Creative Practice is an opportunity to investigate a range of strategies for developing creative work. You devise a coherent programme of study from an extensive list of options. These courses help you engage with a variety of rigorous intellectual, critical and technical skills that culminate in a substantial creative project.

You have opportunities to work in studio and/or live media, to undertake collaborations and across other art forms, and are encouraged to respond creatively to aesthetic and cultural issues in contemporary musics. Its alternate core course are situated in either contemporary concert music or studio composition, helping you to develop technical skills and understandings, but this pathway invites the broadest range of 21st-century musical style and language, and the willingness to connect with new forms in media, presentation and practice.

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.

What you study

The programme comprises:

1. Core: Compositional Techniques OR Studio Practice.

2. Options: (three courses): Composition and Moving Image Media, Composition Techniques, Contemporary Ethnomusicology, Critical Musicology and Popular Music, Ethnographic Film and Music Research, Interactive and Generative Music, Material Form and Structure, Contemporary Music: Practices and Debates, New Directions in Popular Music Research, Performance as Research, Philosophies of Music, Popular Music: Listening, Interpretation and Analysis, Post-Tonal Theory and Analysis, Research Methods in Music and Contemporary Culture, Sound Agendas, Soviet Music and Politics, Studio Practice.

3. Portfolio/Creative Project.

Register your interest

If you register your interest in this programme we will keep you informed about open days and send you relevant further information. If you subsequently decide to apply for this programme you will be able to use the same login details to apply.