MA Community Music
Course Overview
This course prepares musicians for the growing field of community music, equipping them to work in diverse settings like schools, hospitals, and community centers. You will learn to facilitate inclusive music-making for a wide range of people while developing critical project management and administrative skills. The program challenges traditional musicology by focusing on the practical, real-world applications of music beyond the concert hall.
Key Program Highlights
- Develop skills to facilitate music access for diverse and disadvantaged communities
- Learn essential project management and arts administration for real-world application
- Build creative partnerships across different cultures and skill levels
- Gain invaluable experience that combines scholarship with professional outcomes
- Prepare for a career extending music beyond traditional formal settings
Course Overview
This course prepares musicians for the growing field of community music, equipping them to work in diverse settings like schools, hospitals, and community centers. You will learn to facilitate inclusive music-making for a wide range of people while developing critical project management and administrative skills. The program challenges traditional musicology by focusing on the practical, real-world applications of music beyond the concert hall.
Key Program Highlights
- Develop skills to facilitate music access for diverse and disadvantaged communities
- Learn essential project management and arts administration for real-world application
- Build creative partnerships across different cultures and skill levels
- Gain invaluable experience that combines scholarship with professional outcomes
- Prepare for a career extending music beyond traditional formal settings
Requirements
Modules
- Community Music in Principle
- Facilitation Skills: Theory and Practice
- Groupwork, Arts Administration, and Project Management
- History, Practice and Study of Community Music
- Specialisms and Contexts
- Case Studies in Music History 2
- Collaborative Project
- Creative and Critical Practice 1
- Empirical Research for Music
- Enhanced Student-centred Pedagogy
- Music Across the Lifespan 2: Music In the School Years & Beyond
