Taught Programmes
MMus Music Technology and Computer Music
Programme Manager: Dr Ewan Stefani
Email:e.j.stefani@leeds.ac.uk
This programme aims to introduce students to a wide range of musical studies at an advanced level, and to develop presentational skills and capabilities in a variety of studio-based techniques, as well as giving the opportunity for developing creative skills where appropriate. Students take a compulsory Music Technology Project – a portfolio of work devised in consultation with the module tutor which combines theoretical research with practice-led investigation of music technology hardware and/or software at an advanced level. They also attend the core module Computer Music Studies, which introduces students to a wide range of advanced software-based skills for musical applications (including audio processing and sound synthesis techniques, real-time control interfaces, and audio-visual interfaces). All taught postgraduate students also attend a core research skills module, Introduction to Musical Scholarship. The remaining programme credits are chosen from a wide-ranging menu of optional modules, allowing students the flexibility to tailor their studies to their own individual enthusiasms and interests
On successful completion of this programme students should be able to:
- Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of key theoretical principles in the area of study.
- Demonstrate the development of practical skills associated with music technology and computer music at an advanced level.
- Demonstrate originality in the application of knowledge to the field of study
- Pursue an intensive and detailed exploration of a single field or a group of related areas within music technology and computer music.
- Evaluate critically current research and advanced scholarship in the discipline.
- Demonstrate advanced skills in music both practically and theoretically.
- Project Portfolio (55%)
- Project Report, 5000 words (30%)
- Literature Review, 2500 words (15%)
- Folio of exercises (70%)
- Literature review, c.2000 words (15%)
- Reflective log, c.2000 words (15%)
- Bibliography assignment (50%)
- Presentation Skills (50%)
Students choose an additional 60 credits from the following options (subject to availability), to make up a total of 180 credits – either one 60cr module, or two 30cr modules:
60-credit modules:
- Dissertation
- Portfolio of Original Compositions
- Editorial Project
- Final Recital
30-credit modules:
- Issues in Contemporary Musicology
- Composition Studies
- Short Dissertation
- Computer Music Studies
- Applied Performance
- Short Recital
- Editing & Archival Studies
- Studies in Historical performance
- Individual Project