12 monthsProgramme duration
23,000 GBPTuition Fee/year
SepStarting Month
Programme overview
Main Subject
Music
Degree
MRes
Study Level
Masters
Study Mode
On Campus
The department offers exceptional research-led teaching, with inspiring facilities for performance, composition, music technology, and musicology. The department benefits currently from a partnership with the BBC Concert Orchestra, through which world-class performance, composition, and production experiences are offered. The Music Department enjoys a close relationship with Lakeside Arts, the University of Nottingham’s public arts programme.
The MRes offers four distinct specialisms, each supported by world-leading experts:
The MRes offers four distinct specialisms, each supported by world-leading experts:
- Musicology
- Composition (acoustic or digital)
- Performance
- Music technology
- Popular music, film music, electronic music, traditions of music and dance, musical theatre, opera, jazz, sacred music, 19th-c. orchestral music, early and medieval music, twentieth-century music
- Performance studies, performance practice, improvisation, embodiment
- Computer music, mixed reality, AI, coding, audio engineering, sound art, music technologies
- Acoustic, acousmatic, electroacoustic, electronic, and digital composition
- Practice-based, archival, digital, material, analytical methodologies
- Geographies of Western Europe (esp. Britain, Germany, Italy), North America, Asia
- Politics, identity, environment, ethnicity, mobility and exchange
- Transnational, colonial, postcolonial perspectives
- Social justice
- Community music
- Social practice
- Participatory arts
- Department of Music website
- The department was ranked 7th among the Russell Group universities for research outputs in the Research Excellence Framework 2021.
Programme overview
Main Subject
Music
Degree
MRes
Study Level
Masters
Study Mode
On Campus
The department offers exceptional research-led teaching, with inspiring facilities for performance, composition, music technology, and musicology. The department benefits currently from a partnership with the BBC Concert Orchestra, through which world-class performance, composition, and production experiences are offered. The Music Department enjoys a close relationship with Lakeside Arts, the University of Nottingham’s public arts programme.
The MRes offers four distinct specialisms, each supported by world-leading experts:
The MRes offers four distinct specialisms, each supported by world-leading experts:
- Musicology
- Composition (acoustic or digital)
- Performance
- Music technology
- Popular music, film music, electronic music, traditions of music and dance, musical theatre, opera, jazz, sacred music, 19th-c. orchestral music, early and medieval music, twentieth-century music
- Performance studies, performance practice, improvisation, embodiment
- Computer music, mixed reality, AI, coding, audio engineering, sound art, music technologies
- Acoustic, acousmatic, electroacoustic, electronic, and digital composition
- Practice-based, archival, digital, material, analytical methodologies
- Geographies of Western Europe (esp. Britain, Germany, Italy), North America, Asia
- Politics, identity, environment, ethnicity, mobility and exchange
- Transnational, colonial, postcolonial perspectives
- Social justice
- Community music
- Social practice
- Participatory arts
- Department of Music website
- The department was ranked 7th among the Russell Group universities for research outputs in the Research Excellence Framework 2021.
Admission Requirements
90+
71+
3+
6.5+
2:1 (or international equivalent) in music or a related subject
Depending on which specialism you want to follow, you will also need:
- Composition: portfolio of two compositions with at least one notated (one can be electro/acoustic)
- Performance: 20 to 30 minutes of contrasting repertoire, submitted as a recent unedited video performance (online or DVD)
- Music technology: portfolio of audio recordings lasting between 40 to 60 minutes (CD or uncompressed 24-bit audio download)
- Musicology: an example of your written work, 3000 to 5000 words long
- proposed title
- aims, objectives, methods
- summary of content
- outline bibliography
12 Months
Sep
Tuition fees
Domestic
5,350 GBP
International
23,000 GBP
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