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Study Details: MA: 1 year full-time, 2.5 years part-time
From exciting collaborations with your fellow students to learning from professional musicians, this Music master's course is about much more than studying and playing music. It’s about expanding your horizons, working together and immersing yourself in the training you need to establish a successful career in the music industry.
Do you have a clear idea about where you want to take your musical career? We offer three specialist pathways focusing on composition, performance, or interactive music and advanced studio production. If more than one of these options appeals to you, the part time mode of studies offers options to combine modules from different pathways to create the postgraduate music course that best suits your future aspirations.
Our New Adelphi Campus in Salford houses state-of-the-art facilities, including six recording studios, well-appointed rehearsal facilities and our 350-seater public theatre. And with easy access to Manchester, you’ll be able to experience the city’s exciting musical heritage.
To gain a place on the MA Music, you’ll have to submit a personal statement and meet our entry requirements when you apply.
Within your personal statement (up to 500 words), we’ll want to understand:
For some applicants, you’ll be asked to provide us with a portfolio of work and potentially take part in an informal group seminar discussion – either live or on camera – to demonstrate your skills.
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This master’s degree focuses on sharpening your practical and professional music skills to apply within a range of related careers. Not only will you be well-positioned to find employment as a freelance composer or performer, your skills will lend themselves perfectly to music education, lecturing and arts administration.
The depth of material covered on this course enables you to pursue further study in the areas of composition, performance, technology and musicology. What’s more, if you want to perform professionally, you’ll be able to benefit from the professional links we have with local and national music organisations, orchestras and bands.
What sets our postgraduate music programme apart? It's the range of musical genres and styles you’ll be exposed to, and the hands-on experience you’ll be able to gain during your time with us.
Designed to excite and inspire, our course draws upon everything from rock and pop, to classical and electronic music. Exploring music from around the globe, you’ll be encouraged to deepen your understanding of the fundamentals of music, while developing your own playing and composition styles.
Whether you choose to study full-time or part-time, you’ll complete modules that offer an insight into the worlds of composition, performance and musical text across diverse cultures and contexts.
You’ll then choose your chosen specialist pathway, giving you the opportunity to deep dive into the practical aspects of performance, composition or music technology.
The variety of optional modules we offer will provide the theoretical framework for you to develop your final project contextualizing practice in your area of specialism as a research project.
Learn more about the modules we offer in our course breakdown
Once at the heart of Britain’s Industrial Revolution, the University of Salford is now the home of 21st century creativity and learning. Its up-to-the...
