Course summary
This flexible Masters is an opportunity to investigate and combine strategies for developing new creative work. This is an inclusive, forward-thinking composition and creative practice degree, open to broad conceptions of composition, and multi-disciplinary approaches to creative practice.
- 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.
- Modules on this masters support engagement with a variety of intellectual, creative, 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 a HD Pro-tools recording system and large format analogue desk).
- The programme is exceptionally useful for students preparing for further postgraduate practice research projects, or for those wishing to develop a distinctive portfolio of work for entry into the creative industries.
Modules
Compulsory module You choose one of the following modules: Compositional Techniques 30 credits or Popular Music Composition 30 credits or Sonic Arts Practice 30 credits Creative Project Creative Project 60 credits Option modules You choose 3 option modules, one of which can be taken from another relevant department. Option modules change from year to year, and recent examples include: Analysing Contemporary Music: From Serialism to Spectral Noise 30 credits Audiovisual Composition 30 credits Composition and Moving Image Media 30 credits Compositional Techniques 30 credits Contemporary Ethnomusicology 30 credits Contemporary Music: Practice and Discourse 30 credits Critical Musicology and Popular Music 30 credits Ethnographic Film and Music Research 30 credits Interactive and Generative Music 30 credits Material, Form and Structure 30 credits Music Management 30 credits New Directions in Popular Music Research 30 credits Popular Music and its Critics 30 credits Popular Music Composition 30 credits Performance as Research (Ethnomusicology) 30 credits Research through Musical Performance 30 credits Sound Agendas 30 credits Studio Practice 30 credits Philosophies of Music 30 credits Advanced Strategies in Creative Music Production 30 credits 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 this MMus pathway and option choices. 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
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Provider information
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross
Lewisham
SE14 6NW