MRes/PgDip/PgCert

Music

3 good reasons to study Masters in Research (Music) at Salford:

Gain high level research, practice and project development skills invaluable in Music
Develop in-depth knowledge of a key chosen aspect of Music
Acquire research and subject skills through working with leading academics at MediaCityUK

Taught at our state of the art facilities at MediaCityUK and available on either a full-time or a part-time basis, the Masters in Research in Music provides an ideal opportunity to enhance your employment prospects, give your existing career path a boost or set the ground for undertaking further research study at doctoral level.

The Masters in Research in Music allows you to acquire high level research, practice as research and project development skills through studying three progressively linked core modules: Research Methods and Methodologies, Formulating Research Projects; and the MRes Research Project.

While doing this, you will choose from a range of leading edge options available at taught Masters level in Music at Salford.

This course allows you to gain high level knowledge of research practices, techniques and theories and to put these into practice in Music in a field of your choice through an individually designed and organised major research project in your chosen field.

Course details

Full-time

If you take the full-time MRes (Music), you will study a core research module in each semester, each of which develops your knowledge and skills in research and practice as research, and culminates in the production of a 60 credit Research Project or piece of practice as research in Music of your choosing. Complementing your study of research processes and techniques in semesters one and two, you will be able to choose an optional module from the taught postgraduate suite in Music at Salford. The work that you do here will enrich your subject knowledge and can be applied to the design and completion of the MRes Research Project in Semester 3.

Semester 1

Core Module: Research Methods and Methodologies

One elective module from the Semester 1 MA provision within the Music directorate

Semester 2

Core Module: Formulating Research Projects

One elective module from the Semester 2 MA provision within the Music directorate

Semester 3

The MRes Research Project

Elective modules

Indicative list of the elective module options within the Music directorate:

Composition Skills

Applied Composition Skills

Individual Performance

Group Interaction in Performance

Critical Musicology

Critical and Theoretical Positions

Subject Specific Evaluations

Composition, Performance and the Musical Text

Interactive and Emergent Music Programming Techniques

Advanced Studio Composition and Production Techniques

Ethnomusicology Theories and Techniques

Community Music Theories and Techniques

Part-time

If you take the MRes (Music) on a part-time basis, you will study the Research Methods and Methodologies module in semester 1 followed, in semester 2, by an option of your choice from the taught postgraduate suite of modules in Music at Salford. In semester 3, you will study the Formulating Research Projects module. Year 2 will commence with study of an option from the taught postgraduate suite of modules at Salford, leading, in semesters 2 and 3, to the completion of the MRes Research Project.

Year 1, Semester 1

Core Module: Research Methods and Methodologies

Year 1, Semester 2

One elective module from the Semester 2 MA provision within the Music directorate

Year 1, Semester 3

Core Module: Formulating Research Projects

Year 2, Semester 1

One elective module from the Semester 1 MA provision within the Music directorate

Year 2, Semesters 2 and 3

The MRes Research Project

Elective modules

Indicative list of the elective module options within the Music directorate:

Composition Skills

Applied Composition Skills

Individual Performance

Group Interaction in Performance

Critical Musicology

Critical and Theoretical Positions

Subject Specific Evaluations

Composition, Performance and the Musical Text

Interactive and Emergent Music Programming Techniques

Advanced Studio Composition and Production Techniques

Ethnomusicology Theories and Techniques

Community Music Theories and Techniques

Course Enquiries

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