MASTER OF MUSIC (MMus)

Course Details

This is a Level 7 programme which enables graduates to create music as instrumentalists, vocalists or composers at a highly professional and employable standard. The programme can be completed over two years (full-time), or four years (part-time).

The programme is designed to allow the skills and experience of the individual student to flourish and for new skills and insights to be gained. The programme is structured to enable progressive development through the material studied and the assessments undertaken, leading to your increased autonomy and independence as a learner, in preparation for professional life and/or study on the Artist Diploma or Research Degree Programme.

Teaching and Learning

Contact Hours

This programme assumes 2,400 learning and teaching hours with at least 610 hours average contact time.

How you learn

The programme aims to enable you to develop independent learning strategies for lifelong learning. Your tutors will regularly encourage you to reflect on learning and to formulate personal programmes of study and targets for learning.

Learning takes place through a blend of formal tuition, experiential learning and personal study. Instrumental, composition, or vocal tuition is the central element of the provision, consisting of individual one-to-one learning, group tuition, rehearsals, workshops, seminars and masterclasses. Students will develop and contextualize their individual tuition within a broad range of solo, group, and ensemble activities.

Most tuition within the Research Lab and Electives modules is delivered through formal taught sessions, seminars and tutorials, and consolidated in extensive self-study.

CoLab module learning is largely student-led, supported by mentors and interventions from a range of internal and external professional colleagues including staff from the Faculty of Dance.

Most learning is delivered in small groups, and wherever possible practical experience is blended with theoretical knowledge to develop students’ informed musicianship and employability skills. Throughout the programme, visiting artists, ensemble directors and lecturers expose the students to a variety of views and approaches current within the profession.

Certain modules/components in the programme may involve you studying with another student or students in a collaborative way. This may involve you working alongside, and/or undertaking leadership or supervisory responsibilities for other (possibly undergraduate) students engaged in projects with you as, for example, assistant directors or performers. Collaboration is considered to be at the heart of professional artistic life and, as such, opportunities such as these represent valuable learning experiences.

View the list of music Teaching staff.

How you will be assessed

Assessment methods mirror professional contexts as far as possible. In the assessment for Principal Study 1 and 2, performance/composition activities will include a combination of solo, chamber/small ensemble, large ensemble and technical work.

Other programme components, including Research Lab, and the Electives and Personal Specialism will feature a blend of written and practical assessment methods arrived at through negotiation between the student and tutor depending on the material under consideration.

Alumni Destinations

Our graduates go on to follow careers in solo, ensemble and orchestral performance, composition and arranging, creative project work, instrumental/vocal teaching, community project work, collaborative projects with other media/art forms, postgraduate performance/composition study, other related postgraduate study or PGCE.

Entry Requirements

• Good 2:1 pass in a BMus (Hons)
• Or an equivalent qualification such as a Performer’s Diploma (LTCL, LRAM, LRSM, ARCM etc.)
• Other equivalent qualifications and/or relevant prior experience may be considered

Applicants must demonstrate through the application, audition and interview procedure the potential to carry out detailed investigations of topics in which they have a particular interest, and to communicate their ideas coherently and effectively to others. They will show the capability to deliver, at the end of the relevant programme, a series of performance, written and/or oral submissions, which will display critical awareness and the ability to communicate their ideas effectively.

AUDITION INFORMATION 

English language Requirements

Applicants for whom English is not their first language should demonstrate proficiency in English equivalent to IELTS 6.5 overall with a minimum of 5.5 in all 4 areas /Trinity College London Integrated Skills in English III (ISE III).

Fees and Finance

Fees are reviewed annually and may increase by up to 5% each year. The following fees are confirmed:

Fees for 2023/24

Fees for 2022/23

Fees for 2021/22

You can also view our Current and Past Fees.

Accommodation and Living Costs

This information can be found on our Costs of Living page.

Financial Support

Read about financial awards and external funding opportunities in the Fees and Finance section.