Course summary
Why study MMus Popular Music at Goldsmiths The MMus Popular Music centres creative artists in a stimulating and supportive environment where critical enquiry, and testing songs, compositions, performance and experimentation in practice can lead to a portfolio of new work.
- The Popular Music Masters is designed for music artists who are seeking to deepen their creative practice. We are songwriters and composers, producers and performers, engaged in making work that has relevance to real music scenes.
- The programme builds upon our international reputation in the popular music field established by our ground-breaking undergraduate degree.
- The development of industry-relevant skills and key cultural-theoretical understandings is led by the needs of our own projects and foundational knowledge. Typically, students make records, explore performance and production methodologies, present shows, write and release new sets of songs/works. The programme offers the opportunity to extend the boundaries of artistry and critically reflect upon our own creativity in music.
- You’ll also be able to extend your own practice through options in sonic and studio art, advanced music technology, exploration in audiovisual media, and ethnomusicology.
- You’ll acquire graduate-level training in creative practice and subject-specific skills that could set you up for a career as a composer-performer or studio practitioner/producer, as well as other jobs in the popular music sector.
Modules
Full-time students take the following compulsory modules: Popular Music Composition Advanced Strategies in Creative Music Production Popular Music Project Full-time students also take 2 optional modules from an approved list available from the Department of Music. Available options change on an annual basis, and recent examples include: Audiovisual Composition Contemporary Music: Practice and Discourse Ethnographic Film and Music Research Interactive and Generative Music Mental Health and the Music Industry Music Management Practice Research in Music Sonic Arts Practice Sound Agendas Advanced Strategies in Creative Music Production Part-time students Part-time students take Popular Music Compostion and complete the Popular Music Project. They then take 3 optional modules worth 90 credits, one of which can be Advanced Strategies in Creative Music Production. *Please note that due to staff research commitments not all of these modules may be available every year.
Entry requirements
You should have (or expect to be awarded) an undergraduate degree of at least upper second class standard in Music or a relevant/related subject. Your qualification should comprise a substantial practical/creative element relevant to the pathway. A detailed transcript of your degree is preferred. You might also be considered if you aren’t a graduate or your degree is in an unrelated field, but have relevant experience and can show that you have the ability to work at postgraduate level. Students who have completed up to 90 credits (not including final 60-credit projects or dissertations) of a comparable degree at another university can apply for recognition of prior learning status as part of their application for a place on the programme, where such credits are carried forward into your study at Goldsmiths. If English isn’t your first language, you will need an IELTS score (or equivalent English language qualification) of 6.5 with a 6.5 in writing and no element lower than 6.0 to study this programme.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
No fee information has been provided for this course
Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .
Additional fee information
Unless otherwise stated the annual fee for part-time students is half the full-time fee quoted.
Provider information
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross
Lewisham
SE14 6NW