PROFESSIONALISE YOUR ART IN THIS UNIQUE MASTERS PROGRAMME
Learn from industry professionals through intensive creative projects and live professional projects.
Scotland’s only MA Music framework course is now delivered in the heart Italy, Bari and Rome.
The MA Music framework will appeal to graduates from a range of music /music industry disciplines as well as professional musicians, music producers and entrepreneurs.
It has a strong focus on live projects with the expectation that you will be developing your professional career alongside your studies.
Find out more on the UWS University Of The West Of Scotland website.
ABOUT THE COURSE
There are four options on our MA course:
- MA Music
- MA Music (Songwriting)
- MA Music (Sound Production)
- MA Music (Industries)
The course provides an exciting, transformative creative environment for the development of a range of skills across the main areas of the music industries.
It provides a focus for the generation, completion and release of new music performances, production projects, entrepreneurial projects and inter-disciplinary working. You will have the opportunity to explore your creative identity through a series of structured collaborative projects interwoven with individual music and music industry briefs. You will receive a high level of individually focused tutor feedback, including input from renowned industry practitioners.
It provides a focus for the generation, completion and release of new music performances, production projects, entrepreneurial projects and inter-disciplinary working. You will have the opportunity to explore your creative identity through a series of structured collaborative projects interwoven with individual music and music industry briefs. You will receive a high level of individually focused tutor feedback, including input from renowned industry practitioners.
The course provides a broad range of demanding content, strongly reflective of the creative industries; the contemporary creative practitioner is considered with content around intellectual property, publishing and marketing/distribution networks. There is strong academic focus with opportunities to conduct research and analysis, undertake critical reflection and develop a major creative project alongside an industry internship in the heart of Italy.
PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE
The modules within the MA Music Framework are strongly practical in focus. You will work independently (with tutor support) in responding to a series of exciting creative assignments. Taught classes focus on critical analysis of musical creativity, creative practice as research and important aspects of the global music industries.
The MA Music Framework (Songwriting, Sound Production, Industries) presents a mixture of title-specific modules and shared modules wherein collaborative practice mirrors that of the music industries themselves. You will work through the first two trimesters in building towards a major self-directed creative project that will form the basis of the final Masters submission.
ENTRY
Entry to the MA is open to Honours graduates. Students possessing an Ordinary degree (with a mark average of 50%) can apply to enrol on the Postgraduate Diploma (Trimester One & Two) and, on successful completion, transfer to the MA course.
Applicants with relevant equivalent qualifications and/or professional experience will also be considered.
OUR CAREERS ADVISERS SAYS
Past graduates are actively engaged in recording and touring careers, writing and producing for other artists, developing and managing largescale research/knowledge exchange projects and teaching/supervising at school, undergraduate and MA level. The course also provides a clear range of high-level transferable skills in the areas of research, communication and personal development planning. Graduates are accomplished, reflective arts practitioners with a set of strongly focussed creative tools and the ability to thrive autonomously in a range of professional contexts.