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School
Music, Humanities and Media
Course Length
1 year full-time
2 years part-time
Number of Places
10-15
Contact
Admissions Tutor
Tel: 01484 472424 or 01484 472007
E-mail: pgcoursesmhm@hud.ac.uk
Entry Requirements
Complete and submit the MA Music Technology Application form available to download from our website at www.hud.ac.uk/mh/music_technology, citing two referees.
You should enclose:
Admission is available to graduates in music from universities and colleges of music.
Access opportunities are available to candidates who lack formal admission qualifications but who can demonstrate equivalent achievement.
All potentially acceptable applicants are interviewed. You are expected to provide evidence that you are capable of meeting the specialist requirements for the course by submitting a portfolio of recent compositions. All applicants must submit written work to show that they are capable of undertaking the supporting studies that the course involves.
This MA course allows you to produce a portfolio of compositions employing a variety of advanced computer music techniques, working in a purpose-built suite of multi-channel sound studios in our new Creative Arts Building.
With your tutor's guidance, you will develop your aural imagination for computer music and cultivate your own style of composition.
You will study with staff who are active and experienced researchers, as performers, composers and musicologists, and will make use of the impressive range of research materials and multimedia resources available.
A regular series of electronic concerts and performances offers you the opportunity to perform or show your work publicly. Leading exponents of electronic music are frequent visitors.
Level 1
Level 2
You must accumulate 120 credits to be eligible for the award of Postgraduate Diploma in Music and a further 60 credits for the award of MA in Computer Composition.
Formal assessment will take place at the end of the Postgraduate Diploma and MA levels of the course with some intermediate assessment for part-time students at the end of Level 1. The pass mark in all modules is 40%. An overall mark of 70% or above in modules to the value of 120 credits constitutes a Distinction. Those students who are unable to complete the course but who can complete modules to the value of 60 credits may be awarded a Postgraduate Certificate in Music.
The Diploma modules are assessed in May/June, and the MA modules are assessed in August/September. The MA level enables you to concentrate entirely on your specialist area and, in addition, tests your ability to work independently (60 credits).
As far as possible, all teaching on the MA in Computer Composition is concentrated on a single day within each fortnight so that postgraduate students are able to meet together socially as well as within the modules of supporting studies taken by all students.
Graduates from the MA in Computer Composition and MA in Interactive Sound Design have a wide variety of career opportunities, such as being a freelance sound artist or commercial composer, a sound engineer and programmer for live concerts, radio or television, working in a variety of multimedia environments, or continuing on to advanced research at PhD level.
Students enrolling on the MA and MMus courses will become a part of the Centre for Excellence in New Music (CeReNeM). The Centre encourages collaboration and draws together research on electronic music, interactive composition, live electronics, electroacoustic music performance, contemporary performance and composition.
For further details please visit our website at www.hud.ac.uk/mh
The Music Department offers an outstanding research environment for both music and music technology. The Department scored a 5 (out of 5) in the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise, and all full-time staff are active researchers, as performers, composers or musicologists. The Creative Arts Building comprises purpose-built facilities, including concert hall, extensive studio facilities and sound-proofed rehearsal spaces. The University Library has an impressive range of research materials and multimedia resources, and houses special archival collections (including that of the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival).
The School offers bursaries towards the cost of taught MA and MMus courses, which serve as ideal preparation for research degrees (MPhil and PhD), which are offered in all disciplines. A number of our postgraduates are employed as teaching assistants, providing a useful stepping-stone towards an academic career.
In addition to subject-specific skills students will develop their intellectual self confidence and capacity for independent study and a portfolio of key skills that distinguishes all disciplines in Higher Education.
You can also request a printed prospectus by filling in our web form, and have it delivered to your address.
24 Hour Prospectus Enquiry Telephone Line:
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