Advance your career with a Master of Music in Music Performance. A flexible postgraduate programme for performers to develop advanced skills in performance, research, and critical scholarship. Available full-time (1 year) or part-time (2 years), with opportunities across multiple musical styles and genres.
Overview
Aims of the Course:
To provide a coherent but flexible two-year part-time or one-year full-time Master’s programme for performers which will develop their musical and critical skills and knowledge to a level beyond that of first degree study.
To stimulate an inquiring mind and encourage initiative, critical evaluation and independence of thought which will allow continued autonomous development of music expertise and knowledge beyond graduate studies.
To develop a systematic understanding of relevant musical knowledge, and a critical awareness of contemporary issues which is at, or informed by, the forefront of the discipline of music scholarship and performance.
To provide knowledge of research practices in music and to enable students to undertake a substantial performance recital which is informed by research and theoretical knowledge.
To provide a postgraduate programme which can be taken by performers who specialise in a wide range of musical styles and genres, and to enable students both to deepen and to broaden their understanding of musical style.
Outline Programme Structure:
The programme is made up of four modules each worth 30 credit points and the Major Project which is 60 credits. Part time students take 3x30 credit modules in year 1 and 1x30 credit module and the Major Project (60 credits) in their second year.
In a nutshell: Three Compulsory Modules (3 x 30 Credits for each module) + One Optional Module (1 x 30 Credits) + One Major Project (60 Credits).
The Details
Total Maximum Months
Full Time: 12 Months Part Time: 24 Months
Mode Of Learning
Blended
Career Opportunities
Professional Performance Careers
Solo Performer (instrumentalist or vocalist)
Orchestral Musician
Accompanist
Studio Recording & Related Work
Music Producer (performance-focused projects)
Sound Engineer (specializing in performance capture)
Workshop Leader (schools, youth programmes, community groups)
Outreach Coordinator (music for wellbeing, inclusion, or therapy-related initiatives)
Education & Outreach Officer (orchestras, opera houses, arts councils)
Music Programme Coordinator
Festival/Concert Series Manager
The Tembusu Institute Difference
Practical Industry Knowledge
Everything you learn at Tembusu Institute can be applied to your professional life in fashion and will be taught by industry practitioners through interactive workshops, whether online or in Tembusu Institute's Sewing Labs.
Global Network of Entrepreneurs and Experts
Our partners and advisors are as close to home as Thailand or Japan and as far as Italy or the UK. Tap into a professional community built over decades of industry immersion.
Post-Graduate Career Support
Our career support connects you to jobs available on the market, opportunities for further studies, and resources to help you start your own brand.
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Programme Structure
Researching Music MU 7001
Critically navigate a range of contemporary issues in music and develop an informed position demonstrating problem solving and evidenced based reflections.
Explore and synthesize key texts relevant to the student’s pathway from a range of research sources, demonstrating a professional academic standard.
Apply research grounded analysis to current music topic relevant to student career trajectory, which will also inform the development of their Major Project.
Performance Studies MU 7003
Demonstrate technical and musical competence of a professional standard in the performance of music.
Demonstrate professional level of stagecraft, presentation and communication with an audience.
Demonstrate an ability to reflect on and critically selfassess performances within frameworks of current research and practices of professional music performance.
Critical Aspects of Music Performance MU 7016
Demonstrate awareness and understanding of a range of issues relating to the psychology of musical performance.
Evaluate and assess musical performances from an aesthetic standpoint and to express arguments relating to musical performance in an appropriate academic written format.
Develop a strategy and materials for promoting professional standard performance including appropriate digital technologies.
Major Project MU 7012
Produce a creative or research project relevant to student pathway and career trajectory.
Demonstrate the ability to plan and manage a creative or research project independently and take ownership of their work.
Demonstrate reflective and critical thinking and problem-solving skills throughout the creative and research process.
Demonstrate ability to articulate project development and findings in a clear, critical, and well-structured written document.
International Music Education: Psychology, Culture and Philosophy MU 7004
Appraise their own music educational experiences in relation to that of others from different cultural backgrounds.
Identify and critically examine music education philosophies and characteristics within different international contexts by engaging with and critiquing published texts.
Undertake an investigation into a music education issue located within an international context.
Present evidenced findings in a clearly articulated manner through an oral presentation and accompanying paper.
Advanced Production of Popular Music MU 7006
Demonstrate an ability to use a digital recording and editing system with confidence.
Display proficiency in using a recording studio to produce high quality recordings.
Demonstrate a thorough understanding of the recording and mixing processes involved in producing a professional master recording.
Demonstrate a professional, imaginative and critical approach to popular music production.
Critically evaluate their work and position it in the context of the recording and media businesses.
Composing and Marketing Popular Music MU 7007
Apply a range of compositional techniques and creative processes to popular music composition.
Demonstrate a professional and imaginative approach to composition and position their work in the wider context of genre, popular culture and the music business.
Communicate and interpret musical ideas through notation and terminology as used in popular music.
Demonstrate familiarity with a range of techniques for the marketing and promotion of popular music.
Demonstrate familiarity with a range of traditional and new methods for making popular music available to the public and discuss ways in which the consumption of popular music is changing.
Techniques and Technology for Composing for Film and Television MU 7008
Demonstrate a critical understanding of the roles of music in relation to picture.
Demonstrate a practical knowledge of industrystandard electronic techniques for working to picture.
Demonstrate knowledge of the processes involved in writing music for the media.
Demonstrate a professional approach to writing music for picture.
Work effectively within the discipline of a brief.
Show adaptability in the realisation of music for a project.
Score and Screen MU 7017
Compose and professionally produce a variety of pieces of music to picture, to emphasise the creative versatility of the media composer.
Construct a comprehensive and accurate budget to enable the production of a film score.
Demonstrate a professional understanding of the business and legal issues involved in writing music for broadcast.
Demonstrate a practical knowledge of both traditional and contemporary orchestral techniques for working to picture.
Compose imaginatively for a given ensemble producing an accurate score and parts for others to perform at sight.
Self-critically analyse the composer’s role from beginning to end of the process.
