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PostgraduateCourse summary
This flexible Masters is an inclusive, forward-thinking music degree, open to broad conceptions of composition, and multi-disciplinary approaches to practice.
- Our department offers specialist focuses in popular music composition and production, sonic arts and audiovisual cultures
- This programme gives you an opportunity to investigate and combine strategies for developing new creative work.
- You’ll devise a coherent yet bespoke programme of study from an extensive list of options, and have the opportunity to uniquely blend practices from contemporary songwriting and song-based 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’ll have access to the Electronic Music Studios, which offers advanced facilities for electro-acoustic composition, multichannel work and live/interactive performance and the Goldsmiths Music Studios which offers an 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 modules You will take the following compulsory modules: MMus Project Expanding Your Practice All students will take the core module Expanding Your Practice in their first term. Through this, you will select two focuses from topics including Popular Music Composition, Sonic Arts, Audiovisual Cultures and Practice Research. Through these two topics, you will have the opportunity to expand skills relating to your primary practice as well as experimenting in a complementary field. Optional modules You will also choose optional modules to the value of 60 credits from an approved list available from the Department of Music. This may include a 30-credit related study module from outside the department. The module must be approved by the pathway leader. Recent examples of optional modules include: Advanced Strategies in Creative Music Production Filmmaking and Music Research Improvisation Music Management and Curation Professional Practice in Music Mental Health and the Music Industry 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. 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. We accept a wide range of international qualifications. 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
No additional fees or cost information has been supplied for this course, please contact the provider directly.
Provider information
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross
Lewisham
SE14 6NW