Composition and Creative Music Practice - MA Programme content
Key information
Key information
- Complete full-time in one year or part-time over two years
- Delivered on campus
- Modules taught during autumn and spring semesters
- Submit final project at the end of the final semester
- Full-time students take 3 core modules and 1 creative pathway each semester
- Part-time students take 2 core modules and 1 creative pathway in the autumn semester and 1 core module and 1 creative pathway in the spring semester of Year 1
- In Year 2 students take 1 core module and 1 elective module in the autumn semester and 2 core modules in the spring semester
You will learn through a blend of
- Lectures, workshops, and hands-on activities
- Reflective practice and guided research
- Regular feedback from faculty and peers
Full-time programme content
Core modules
- Workshop in Creative Music Practice (MD6231) seeks to develop the student's individual creative music practice.
- Composing Traditions Seminar (MD6271) explores a range of historical and contemporary composition and creative music practices, styles and repertoires.
- Peer Forum 1 (MD6241) provides regular opportunities for students to present work-in-progress to their peers.
Creative pathways 1 – choose one
- Creating for the Voice (MD6261)
- Performance Practice (Academy Ensembles and Individual Tuition) (MD6251)
- Real-time Audio and Media (MD6311)
Electives – choose one
- Media Technologies for Performing Arts and Arts (MD6031)
- Introduction to Ritual Studies (MD6041)
- Writing and Documentation of Arts Practice (MD6071)
- Introduction to Somatics 1 (MD6061)
- Introduction to Fieldwork Techniques (MD6021)
Books and journal articles needed for the course will be available online through the UL Glucksman Library.
For more information on each module, you can search the faculty, school and module code on UL’s Book of Modules
Core modules
- Inter-Arts Music Making (MD6212) introduces students to collaborative, inter-arts music making.
- Critical Contexts of Arts Management and Cultural Policy (MD6062) introduces students to key concepts, practices and discourses in contemporary arts management, production and policy making.
- Peer Forum 2 (MD6222) develops skills in creative practice, presentation/performance, listening, analysis, constructive critique and reflexivity, in a supportive environment.
Creative pathways 2 – choose one
- Creating for Strings (MD6252)
- Performance Practice (Academy Ensembles and Individual Tuition) (MD6232)
- Improvisation (MD6242)
Electives – choose two
- Broadening Through Awareness, Activism and the Arts (Postgraduate) (BR5001)
- Independent Study 2 (MD6052)
- Writing and the Documentation of Arts Practice 2 (MD6072)
- Choreography for Camera (MD6082)
- Colloquium 2 (MD6102)
- Interdisciplinary Practice (MD6162)
- Irish World Academy Ensembles (MD6211)
Books and journal articles needed for the course will be available online through the UL Glucksman Library.
For more information on each module, you can search the faculty, school and module code on UL’s Book of Modules
Core module
- Final Project (MD5522) equips students to perform specialist repertoire at the standard of a public recital or conduct a research project to the level of a master's standard dissertation or a combination of both.
Books and journal articles needed for the course will be available online through the UL Glucksman Library.
For more information on each module, you can search the faculty, school and module code on UL’s Book of Modules
Part-time programme content - Year 1
Core module
Creative pathways 1 – choose one
- Creating for Strings (MD6252)
- Performance Practice (Academy Ensembles and Individual Tuition) (MD6232)
- Improvisation (MD6242)
Electives – choose two
- Broadening Through Awareness, Activism and the Arts (Postgraduate) (BR5001)
- Independent Study 2 (MD6052)
- Writing and the Documentation of Arts Practice 2 (MD6072)
- Choreography for Camera (MD6082)
- Colloquium 2 (MD6102)
- Interdisciplinary Practice (MD6162)
- Irish World Academy Ensembles (MD6211)
Books and journal articles needed for the course will be available online through the UL Glucksman Library.
For more information on each module, you can search the faculty, school and module code on UL’s Book of Modules.
Part-time programme content - Year 2
Core module
- Workshop in Creative Music Practice (MD6231) seeks to develop the student's individual creative music practice.
Electives – choose one
- Media Technologies for Performing Arts and Arts (MD6031)
- Introduction to Ritual Studies (MD6041)
- Writing and Documentation of Arts Practice (MD6071)
- Introduction to Somatics 1 (MD6061)
- Introduction to Fieldwork Techniques (MD6021)
Books and journal articles needed for the course will be available online through the UL Glucksman Library.
For more information on each module, you can search the faculty, school and module code on UL’s Book of Modules.
Core modules
Books and journal articles needed for the course will be available online through the UL Glucksman Library.
For more information on each module, you can search the faculty, school and module code on UL’s Book of Modules.
Core module
Books and journal articles needed for the course will be available online through the UL Glucksman Library.
For more information on each module, you can search the faculty, school and module code on UL’s Book of Modules.
