Keele University Prospectus Postgraduate | 2017 | Seite 90

Postgraduate Prospectus 2017

Music
Key Information
Overview

Our MA in Music provides you with a thorough grounding in the
creative, critical and practical underpinnings of advanced study
and research in composition, musicology and performance. Practice
and creativity can be balanced with innovative and more traditional
critical-theoretical approaches; there is also the option of a work
placement. Modules blending performance and composition enhance
the programme’s flexibility, and its final project options enable you
to specialise in one or two areas, blending practical and theoretical
work (i.e. a student could complete a recital or composition portfolio
or dissertation, or alternately do musicology and composing,
or composing and performance, or musicology and performance).
Distinctive features include the option to benefit from the original
research-led teaching offered by the musicologists at Keele on
specially enhanced versions of level 5 and 6 modules; the chance
to take a creative practice module in which composers and performers
work together to create, perform and promote new music;
and team-taught modules in which composers, performers
and musicologists work together to offer complementary
perspectives on topics, techniques and repertoires.
You will be taught and supervised by the researchers who have earned
Keele an international reputation as a centre for excellence in these areas:
practice-led research in composition and technology, and text-based
research in musicology. The musicology research group at Keele enjoys
a strong reputation for its expertise in music analysis, philosophy, cultural
history, aesthetics, screen music, ethnomusicology, music from Germany,
Poland, and Peru, and composers including Brahms, Lutosławski and
Rihm. There is a shared focus on the twentieth century (in the context
of its precursors and successors), and on exploring common themes
such as modernity, identity, narrative and embodiment. The MA enables
students to benefit from research-led teaching in such areas.
The musical life on campus is extraor dinarily rich. As a Keele music
student you’ll have access 24/7 to our purpose-built practice rooms and
studios, and also to an extensive music library.
You’ll have opportunities
to play with orchestras, choirs, ensembles and bands, and to attend
concerts, gigs and workshops by world-leading musicians.

Indicative modules

The following is a list of indicative modules:
• Music as Creative Practice
• Music Analysis
• Critical Musicology
• Screen Music Studies
• Music as Social Life
• Advanced Music and Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century
• Approaches to Music Research
• Contemporary Music Studies
• Advanced Techniques in Current Musicology
• Advanced Techniques in Creative Music Technologies
• Dissertation, Creative Portfolio, Recital

For more information please visit

keele.ac.uk/pg/music
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Course type
MA

Mode of study

Full-time or part-time

Indicative entry
requirements
High 2:2 or above

For a list of full entry
requirements please visit
www.keele.ac.uk/pgtcourses

Contact email
[e-mail]

Lydia Triner

Music MRes graduate
Completing a Master’s in Music
at Keele is one of the best decisions
I have made. The warm and positive
atmosphere provides you with the
self-confidence, passion and inspiration
needed to keep pushing yourself further.
The course programme and excellent
staff developed my understanding
of independent research, gave me
the encouragement to pursue my
research interests, and the fantastic
interdisciplinary element really helped
to open my mind. It not only readied
me for further postgraduate research
at PhD level, but also developed me as a
person. There’s nowhere quite like Keele!

Did you know?
Music and Music Technology at Keele
were recently rated in the top 10 in
the UK for overall student satisfaction
in the National Student Survey 2014.