Modules blending performance and composition enhance the programmeÕs flexibility, and its final project options enable you to specialise in one or two areas, blending practical and theoretical work.

The principal purpose of the MA in Music is to develop critical and artistic creativity, equipping students with the tools to undertake independent ÔresearchÕ (broadly construed) as musicologists, composers and performers, as well as providing students with understanding of a range of important issues in their chosen area(s).

The Masters equips students for further study (for instance a PhD in musicology, composition or performance practice) or employment through the generation of subject specific knowledge and transferable skills central to the pursuit of careers related to these areas and a much broader field of potential careers (for instance, but not exclusively, in media production, finance and banking, the law, publishing, broadcasting, marketing and consultancy, or as performer, composer, teacher (at all levels of education), music therapist, community musician, private tutor or sound technician, or in arts administration, orchestras, bands, a recording company, publishing, game design, film, radio and television).

The MA in Music provides students with higher-level research, analytical and study skills necessary for students intending to pursue further academic research. It also provides students with the opportunities to enhance their oral and written communication skills, as well as their team working and individual organisational capabilities.