Early Music MA/PgDip/PgCert
Postgraduate
In Bangor
Description
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Type
Postgraduate
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Location
Bangor (Wales)
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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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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
Early Music MA/PgDip/PgCert