Music - Composition & Creative Music Practice

Key programme benefits to future students

Students will develop 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.

Composition and Creative Music Practice



Autumn Modules

• Workshop in Creative Music Practice

• 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



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

• 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 | Colloquium 2 | Independent Study 2 | Writing and the Documentation of Arts Practice 2 | Choreography for Camera | Transdisciplinary Practice



Summer Modules

• Final Project

Applicants should hold a bachelor’s degree (NFQ Level 8) with at least a second-class honour, grade 2 (2:2) in a relevant or appropriate subject.



The university may shortlist and invite you to an interview. 



You must submit a portfolio of your work.



Other Entry Considerations:





We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet the standard entry requirements, as long as you can show that you have the knowledge, skills, and experience needed for the programme.



At UL, we value all kinds of learning and support different ways to qualify through our Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) policy.

1 year full-time, on-campus.

Autumn

Graduate careers

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