Early Music MA/PgDip/PgCert

Postgraduate

In Bangor

£ 11,750 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    Bangor (Wales)

  • Start date

    September

The MA in Early Music allows you to develop and refine knowledge and understanding of music written before around 1750. The programme will equip you with the skills and methodologies to undertake specialist musicological research, and will hone high level transferable skills in critical thinking, conceptual thinking, problem solving, analysis, communication, self direction and originality.

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Location

Start date

Bangor (Gwynedd)
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LL57 2DG

Start date

SeptemberEnrolment now open

About this course


The course aims to enable understudies to: Acquired a thorough knowledge of current trends in musicological research and discourse

acquired detailed knowledge of research methodologies in music (in the areas of historiography, criticism, edition, analysis and performance practice)

gained the skill to understand the jargon and concepts peculiar to a range of methodologies and to assess critically their merits and limitations

acquired enhanced study and research skills related to musicology broadly understood


The MA in Early Music will give you a taste for original research into music of the medieval and early modern periods, and will provide you with subject specific knowledge and academic skills that will set you on course for further study at PhD level and beyond. The programme will also equip you with skills in critical thinking, analysis and communication which are valued by employers both within and outside the field of music. Recent graduates have pursued successful careers as writers, editors, arts administrators, teachers, educational advisers, performers, and business people.

First degree at British Bachelor’s standard: 2(ii) or higher.
Candidates with a 2.ii degree must however achieve a 2.i in a substantial project in their chosen area of study (e.g. a dissertation).

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Subjects

  • Music
  • 20th and 21st Century Music
  • Interdisciplinary
  • Contemporary
  • Welsh pop music

Course programme

The programme is divided into two parts: two semesters of taught study (Part 1, 120 credits) and a substantial independent piece of work in the main area, produced over the summer (Part 2, 60 credits). Teaching is provided through a combination of individual tuition and small group seminars. Part 1 (diploma): In Semester one you will take two modules: Current Musicology, through which you will become familiar with the latest techniques and discourses in the discipline, and Manuscripts and Printed Books, taught collaboratively with the School of English Literature. In the second semester, you will explore a topic of staff expertise in the Early Music module, and will complete a supervised Independent Research Project on a topic of your choice. Part 2 (MA): The Part II Project is completed over the summer months. It may take the form of a dissertation on an early music topic, or a critical edition of music composed before 1800.

Early Music MA/PgDip/PgCert

£ 11,750 VAT inc.