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.

Autumn Modules

• Workshop in Creative Music Practice

• Peer Forum 1

• Composing Traditions Seminar

• Creative Pathways 1 (choose one option)



Optional Modules (choose one)

Creating for the Voice | Performance Practice (Academy Ensembles and Individual Tuition) | Real-time Audio and Video



Spring Modules

• Inter-Arts Music Making

• Critical Contexts of Arts Management and Cultural Policy

• Peer Forum 2

• Creative Pathways 2 (choose one option)



Optional Modules (choose two)

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



Summer Modules

• Final Project

Primary degree in a suitable discipline with first or second class honours or an approved equivalent qualification (Primary degree: Level 8 - National Qualifications Authority of Ireland). Or an equivalent capability based on prior professional experience.

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.