Postgraduate - Edith Cowan University

MASTER OF MUSIC
Course Code I21
The Master of Music is a 180-credit-point postgraduate degree
program designed to prepare the student for entry into the highest
level of the music profession. The course is extremely flexible and
is able to accommodate Classical Performance, Jazz Performance,
Composition, Music Technology and Music Studies/Musicology.
There are clear pathways for those students who wish to focus on
performance, and there are alternative pathways for students
wishing to integrate more academic work into their programme.
The Music Programme has a large staff of pedagogues and
scholar/performers whose expertise spans the whole gamut of the
music world today.
ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Students must have an undergraduate music qualification with
honours or a Graduate Diploma in music, and present an audition
or interview according to specialisation.
Prospective students must apply through the Academy
Admissions Officer. For each applicant the Academy
Admissions Officer will arrange an interview (normally held in
November-December). Further information on audition
requirements and procedures is available from the Western
Australian Academy of Performing Arts
(http://www.waapa.ecu.edu.au/).
COURSE LOCATION
This course is available on Mt Lawley Campus.
MODE OF STUDY
This course is available by Full-time, or Part-time mode.
MODE OF DELIVERY
This course is available in the following mode of delivery - Oncampus.
COURSE STRUCTURE
The Master of Music is made up of 8 semester long units, each
made up of 20 Credit Points, with the final two units in the last 6
months worth 30 CP each.
Semester One
MUS6111 Masters Principal Practice: Minor Project 1 20
MUS6114 Special Topic 1 20
Students to choose 20 credit points from the following:
MUS6112 Practicum 20
MUS6113 Research Methods * 20
Semester Two
MUS6115 Masters Principal Practice: Minor Project 2 20
MUS6116 Masters Seminar 20
MUS6117 Special Topic 2 20
Semester Three
MUS6118 Masters Principal Practice: Major Project 30
MUS6119 Final Research Project 30
* Research Methods (MUS6113) must be selected by students
who have not completed an Honours award.
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
Course Code L12
The Doctor of Philosophy (Performing Arts) is a three-year fulltime
research program for students with substantial experience in
the arts industry/ profession. The course provides an opportunity
for original, highly accomplished practitioners, performers and
artists who aspire towards a more extensive research and creative
profile. The course is available in part-time mode in specific
circumstances. Although this is a discrete award relating to the
performing arts, opportunities will exist for cross-disciplinary
study through joint supervision of the research.
Candidates will be expected to self-initiate and develop research
through and about the practices of their chosen discipline to
produce original and interrogative works of art and/or original
approaches to performing arts' processes that will extend the
knowledge of their discipline/s. The complementary components
will normally include a performance, exhibition, event or an
embodiment of some form (as in pedagogical investigations) in
conjunction with an appropriate written record of their research,
detailing their reflective processes and artistic ideas in the context
of current professional knowledge. In many instances, the
research will involve inter-disciplinary elements that bear
conceptual implications when framed within performing arts'
contexts. Together, the critical practice and reflection constitute
the thesis which is expected to demonstrate the use of appropriate
methodologies of inquiry in the performing arts and incorporate
current theoretical understandings of the discipline/s involved.
Where the thesis involves live performance, exhibition and/or
events, the candidate is advised to pay attention to the
examination procedures before the required final submission of
the two integral components in a form of examinable
documentation appropriate to the research involved.
The Doctor of Philosophy (Performing Arts) is subject to
University-wide regulations pertaining to course duration, formal
proposal review and ethics clearance procedures and thesis
submission. Copies of the relevant documentation will be
provided to all candidates upon enrolment.
Specifically the course aims to:
• create opportunities for developing critical and creative
skills at an advanced level
• utilise the resources of the Academy to create
leadership opportunities for artists with extensive
professional experience to re-define or pursue
alternative lines of practical and/or theoretical inquiry
• provide the environment to experiment with crosscultural
or interdisciplinary forms that have the
potential to extend the knowledges of the performing
arts.
ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Applicants should meet at least one of the following entry criteria:
· A Master of Arts in a discipline relevant to the proposed
research;
· An Honours degree (1st Class or 2A) in a discipline relevant to
the proposed research.
Consideration will also be given to applicants with other relevant
and equivalent degrees.
All candidates will be required to submit a portfolio of work and
attend an interview and/or audition (where appropriate).
COURSE LOCATION
This course is available on Mt Lawley Campus.
184 ECU Postgraduate Course Guide 2008