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

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.

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.