Composition and Creative Music Practice PT

Key programme benefits to future students



Students will develop their individual artistic practice and facilitate collaborative exploration of cross-genre, cross-arts and cross-cultural creativity.



Students will create acoustic and/or electronic music through an inclusive range of composition, improvisation and performance practices.



The programme welcomes students from all music traditions (traditional, folk, popular, world, classical) and sound art practices, working with and/or without music notation.



Key Fact:

The programme provides opportunities to create a portfolio of projects guided by a wide range of guest tutors and professional artists.

Composition and Creative Music Practice



Year 1

Autumn Modules

• Peer Forum 1

• Composing Traditions Seminar

• Creative Pathways 1 (choose one):

Creating for the Voice | Performance

Practice (Academy Ensembles and

Individual Tuition) | Real-time Media



Spring Modules

• Peer Forum 2

• Creative Pathways 2 (choose one):

Creating for Strings | Performance Practice (Academy Ensembles and Individual Tuition | Improvisation



Optional Modules (choose two)

Introduction to Somatics 2 | Colloquium2 | Independent Study 2 | Writing and the Documentation of Arts Practice 2 | Choreography for Camera | Transdisciplinary Practice



Year 2

Autumn Modules

• Workshop in Creative Music Practice



Optional Modules (choose one)

Introduction to Somatics 1 | Media Technologies for Performing Arts and Arts Research | Introduction to Ritual Studies | Colloquium 1 | Professional Development for the Performing Arts



Spring Modules

• Inter-Arts Music Making

• Critical Contexts of Arts Management and

Cultural Policy



Summer Modules

• Final Project

2 Years Part Time

Autumn

Graduate careers

Graduates emerge with unique artistic profiles to pursue diverse careers as composers, sound artists, improvisers, performers, educators and arts-practice scholars.