12 monthsProgramme duration
19,750 GBPTuition Fee/year
30 Jun, 2026Application Deadline
SepStarting Month
Programme overview
Main Subject
Music
Degree
MA
Study Level
Masters
Study Mode
On Campus
This innovative MA in Music puts your interests at the heart of your experience.
Building on the success of our undergraduate Music degrees, the MA Music provides a supportive and encouraging environment in which to develop your practice.
We have flipped the traditional structure of a Masters, where taught modules are followed by a final project or dissertation, by enabling you to work on and develop your major project from the outset.
This course is ideal for musicians, composers, producers and artists who want to develop their practice, and for scholars who wish to take an academic approach to their study. There is no requirement for undergraduate music study and we welcome practitioners and scholars from all disciplines.
We believe that exploration and experimentation are central to the postgraduate experience. You will develop practices and ways of working that are at the intersection of practice, reflection and the transmission of ideas, findings and creative outputs.
The MA Music has been designed to foster and encourage:
Exploration and experimentation Criticality and reflection Engagement with knowledge and practice We facilitate an individualised experience in which you will develop your practice, knowledge and understanding of your place in the world through the development of critical reflection abilities. You will be encouraged and supported as you develop a deep understanding of the context of your work/practice and the work of others in a scholarly/artistic context.
Five interrelated compulsory modules are specifically designed to allow students to achieve our programme aims which are to:
Engage creatively with your chosen field(s), challenging yourself to explore and innovate within your chosen area(s) of practice. Develop and demonstrate your ability for critical and reflective thought and judgement. Develop understanding(s) of research/practical methodologies and the use and application of method(s). Explore/create a range of modes of artistic/scholarly communication. Interrogate and respond to the context(s) in which your practice is articulated. This course is delivered over three trimesters (September to August). Trimesters 1 and 2 are delivered through fortnightly lectures, seminars and workshops. Trimester 3 is mainly supervised independent study, but with two intensive weeks of contact with staff and peers, including our exciting MA conference day which gives you the opportunity to share and showcase work with staff and peers, to receive feedback and to engage in critique sessions.
Building on the success of our undergraduate Music degrees, the MA Music provides a supportive and encouraging environment in which to develop your practice.
We have flipped the traditional structure of a Masters, where taught modules are followed by a final project or dissertation, by enabling you to work on and develop your major project from the outset.
This course is ideal for musicians, composers, producers and artists who want to develop their practice, and for scholars who wish to take an academic approach to their study. There is no requirement for undergraduate music study and we welcome practitioners and scholars from all disciplines.
We believe that exploration and experimentation are central to the postgraduate experience. You will develop practices and ways of working that are at the intersection of practice, reflection and the transmission of ideas, findings and creative outputs.
The MA Music has been designed to foster and encourage:
Exploration and experimentation Criticality and reflection Engagement with knowledge and practice We facilitate an individualised experience in which you will develop your practice, knowledge and understanding of your place in the world through the development of critical reflection abilities. You will be encouraged and supported as you develop a deep understanding of the context of your work/practice and the work of others in a scholarly/artistic context.
Five interrelated compulsory modules are specifically designed to allow students to achieve our programme aims which are to:
Engage creatively with your chosen field(s), challenging yourself to explore and innovate within your chosen area(s) of practice. Develop and demonstrate your ability for critical and reflective thought and judgement. Develop understanding(s) of research/practical methodologies and the use and application of method(s). Explore/create a range of modes of artistic/scholarly communication. Interrogate and respond to the context(s) in which your practice is articulated. This course is delivered over three trimesters (September to August). Trimesters 1 and 2 are delivered through fortnightly lectures, seminars and workshops. Trimester 3 is mainly supervised independent study, but with two intensive weeks of contact with staff and peers, including our exciting MA conference day which gives you the opportunity to share and showcase work with staff and peers, to receive feedback and to engage in critique sessions.
Programme overview
Main Subject
Music
Degree
MA
Study Level
Masters
Study Mode
On Campus
This innovative MA in Music puts your interests at the heart of your experience.
Building on the success of our undergraduate Music degrees, the MA Music provides a supportive and encouraging environment in which to develop your practice.
We have flipped the traditional structure of a Masters, where taught modules are followed by a final project or dissertation, by enabling you to work on and develop your major project from the outset.
This course is ideal for musicians, composers, producers and artists who want to develop their practice, and for scholars who wish to take an academic approach to their study. There is no requirement for undergraduate music study and we welcome practitioners and scholars from all disciplines.
We believe that exploration and experimentation are central to the postgraduate experience. You will develop practices and ways of working that are at the intersection of practice, reflection and the transmission of ideas, findings and creative outputs.
The MA Music has been designed to foster and encourage:
Exploration and experimentation Criticality and reflection Engagement with knowledge and practice We facilitate an individualised experience in which you will develop your practice, knowledge and understanding of your place in the world through the development of critical reflection abilities. You will be encouraged and supported as you develop a deep understanding of the context of your work/practice and the work of others in a scholarly/artistic context.
Five interrelated compulsory modules are specifically designed to allow students to achieve our programme aims which are to:
Engage creatively with your chosen field(s), challenging yourself to explore and innovate within your chosen area(s) of practice. Develop and demonstrate your ability for critical and reflective thought and judgement. Develop understanding(s) of research/practical methodologies and the use and application of method(s). Explore/create a range of modes of artistic/scholarly communication. Interrogate and respond to the context(s) in which your practice is articulated. This course is delivered over three trimesters (September to August). Trimesters 1 and 2 are delivered through fortnightly lectures, seminars and workshops. Trimester 3 is mainly supervised independent study, but with two intensive weeks of contact with staff and peers, including our exciting MA conference day which gives you the opportunity to share and showcase work with staff and peers, to receive feedback and to engage in critique sessions.
Building on the success of our undergraduate Music degrees, the MA Music provides a supportive and encouraging environment in which to develop your practice.
We have flipped the traditional structure of a Masters, where taught modules are followed by a final project or dissertation, by enabling you to work on and develop your major project from the outset.
This course is ideal for musicians, composers, producers and artists who want to develop their practice, and for scholars who wish to take an academic approach to their study. There is no requirement for undergraduate music study and we welcome practitioners and scholars from all disciplines.
We believe that exploration and experimentation are central to the postgraduate experience. You will develop practices and ways of working that are at the intersection of practice, reflection and the transmission of ideas, findings and creative outputs.
The MA Music has been designed to foster and encourage:
Exploration and experimentation Criticality and reflection Engagement with knowledge and practice We facilitate an individualised experience in which you will develop your practice, knowledge and understanding of your place in the world through the development of critical reflection abilities. You will be encouraged and supported as you develop a deep understanding of the context of your work/practice and the work of others in a scholarly/artistic context.
Five interrelated compulsory modules are specifically designed to allow students to achieve our programme aims which are to:
Engage creatively with your chosen field(s), challenging yourself to explore and innovate within your chosen area(s) of practice. Develop and demonstrate your ability for critical and reflective thought and judgement. Develop understanding(s) of research/practical methodologies and the use and application of method(s). Explore/create a range of modes of artistic/scholarly communication. Interrogate and respond to the context(s) in which your practice is articulated. This course is delivered over three trimesters (September to August). Trimesters 1 and 2 are delivered through fortnightly lectures, seminars and workshops. Trimester 3 is mainly supervised independent study, but with two intensive weeks of contact with staff and peers, including our exciting MA conference day which gives you the opportunity to share and showcase work with staff and peers, to receive feedback and to engage in critique sessions.
Admission Requirements
4+
56+
6+
2.7+
169+
30 Jun 2026
1 Year
Sep
Tuition fees
Domestic
7,650 GBP
International
19,750 GBP
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