Music - Irish Music Studies

These three connected programmes provide students with flexible options for full-time learning, allowing them to stack these programmes over a number of years or to complete this programme consecutively over one year. Students can undertake the Post-graduate Certificate in the Autumn semester either face-to-face, online or in a hybrid fashion. Students can then exit at the end of the Autumn Semester with the Certificate or continue their studies (on campus) in the spring semester where they can fulfil the requirements for the Postgraduate Diploma. If they wish, students can then progress to the summer semester to achieve the higher award of a Master of Arts in Irish Music Studies.



Key programme benefits to future students

Students will be equipped students with a professional qualification in musicology.



This course will provide sound and thorough basis for further research in the area of traditional music studies.



Students will engage traditional music studies from various theoretical orientations.

Autumn Modules

• Framing Irish Music: Sources & Discourses 1

• Music Ethnography

• Introduction to Fieldwork Techniques

• Irish Traditional Music Performance

• Research Seminar

• Introduction to Ritual Studies



Optional Modules (choose two)

Colloquium 1 | Independent Study 1 | Media Technologies for Performing Arts & Arts Research | Writing & the Documentation of Arts Practice 1 | Broadening through Awareness, Activism and the Arts (postgraduate)



Spring Modules

• Framing Irish Music: Sources & Discourses 2

• The Anthropology of Music

• Critical Engagements with Irish Traditional Music



Optional Modules (choose two)

Colloquium 2 | Independent Study 2 | Broadening: Introduction to Place-Making (postgraduate) | Critical Contexts for Arts Management & Cultural Policy



Summer Modules

• Final Presentation

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 or an approved professional qualification.



The university may shortlist you and invite you to an interview and audition.



You may be required to submit additional audio visual and/or written material.



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

The course is designed to cater to the occupational and vocational needs of the following professions: university and college lecturers, secondary teachers of music, professional music performers, music archivists, music administrators, music educators, and media specialists.