This focused and challenging programme offers the opportunity for the study of specialist areas of music at postgraduate level. Closely allied with the Master of Music programme, the Postgraduate Diploma is likewise based on a 90-credit Principal Study course, selected from the following areas:
Performance
Piano accompaniment
Conducting
Composition
Electroacoustic composition
Instrumental teaching and learning
By combining these with one other, 30-credit course, students are able to develop their skills, knowledge and understanding in a highly focused way.
They may, for example, choose to pursue courses of a practical nature by pursuing Performance with a practical option such as Chamber music, Ensemble direction, or Accompanying skills. An alternative pathway might combine Instrumental teaching and learning with either a practical option, or a written Research project. The combination of courses is thus highly flexible, and allows students to undertake postgraduate study without undertaking the full range of Masters courses.
Students will normally be expected to have gained a good honours degree in music, or an equivalent performance diploma. Further experience in either practical or theoretical music will be relevant to the Principal study area chosen. The audition/interview panel will also seek evidence of the candidate’s ability to work independently, to critically assess their own work, to set goals accordingly and to pursue them with discipline and commitment.
Overseas applicants may, in lieu of an audition/interview, send recorded audiovisual evidence of their work for consideration.
Further information may be found under Master of Music.
Refer to www.canterbury.ac.uk For an explanation of qualifications, have a look at our IAG page on this site www.creativeway.org.uk/quals.
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