Music - Irish Music Studies
This programme explores the structures, sounds, and ideas of what is constituted as 'Irish music', historically and currently, and why and how that might matter.
Key Fact:
The team delivering this programme consists of high-calibre full-time faculty, instrumental and vocal tutors, PhD researchers, visiting lecturers and performers.
Subjects taught
Programme Content
Autumn Semester
Mandatory:
• Framing Irish Music: Sources & Discourses 1
• Music Ethnography
• Introduction to Fieldwork Techniques
• Irish Traditional Music Performance Research Seminar
• Introduction to Ritual Studies
Options: students choose 2 options from the list below:
• 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)
• Academic Literacies for International Postgraduate Students 1
Spring Semester
Mandatory:
• Framing Irish Music: Sources & Discourses 2
• The Anthropology of Music
• Critical Engagements with Irish Traditional Music
Options: students choose two options from the list below:
• Colloquium 2
• Independent Study 2
• Broadening: Introduction to Place-Making (postgraduate)
• Critical Contexts for Arts Management & Cultural Policy
Summer
Final Presentation
Entry requirements
A primary degree in a suitable discipline with a first or second class honours, or an approved professional qualification (Primary degree: Level 8 - National Qualifications Authority of Ireland). An interview will be required in all cases, as well as an audition where necessary. Candidates may be required to submit additional audio visual and/or written material.
Application dates
-How to apply:
1. Choose your programme.
2. Check closing date for the programme.
3. Apply online at www.ul.ie
4. Have your supporting documentation ready to upload.
5. Pay the application fee (€35 online / €40 bank draft or cheque).
6. Submit your application.
What to include with your application
Qualification transcripts and certificates
A copy of your birth certificate or passport
If your qualifications have been obtained in a country where
English is an official language this will suffice
If this is not available, the following additional documents must be provided:
• English translation of your qualification(s)/transcripts
AND
• English language competency certificate
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Note: Due to Covid-19 restrictions, any interviews or auditions (as required by the Course Director) during the application process will now take place virtually.
Duration
1 year Full Time