新南威尔士大学

The Music degree is your opportunity to develop your theoretical and practical skills to the highest standards in performing, composing, improvising, researching, producing and teaching. Students benefit from our creative and contemporary environment, which includes purpose-built facilities, diverse performance opportunities and courses taught by leading academics in the field. In addition to core courses in performance, musicianship and musicology – and extensive training in ensemble skills and professional practice – you will also study one of four specialist music streams: music creative practice, music inquiry, sonic arts or music pedagogy.

Majors

Music

Degree Structure

Music streams

Music Creative Practice:

Intensive training in performance or composition in a self-selected musical style or tradition, including classical, jazz and world music.

Music Inquiry:

Intensive training in historical musicology, ethnomusicology or the psychology of music. Music Inquiry enables students to develop excellence in theoretical and critical subjects, music from various styles, genres and cultures, and in a comprehensive range of ensemble practices.

Sonic Arts:

Focuses on the use of sound as a means for a broad-range of creative investigations and applications. Students gain foundational skills and knowledge in sound recording and processing, post production techniques, digital sound manipulation, acoustics, and psychoacoustics in preparation for advanced applications of sound in various media and genres, such as, film and video production, sound installations, sound art, and electronic-based composition.

Music Pedagogy:

Offers extensive pre-professional training in musicianship, musicology, ensemble performance, pedagogical methods, and educational and motivational psychology specifically for studio music teaching. This stream requires the study of leading pedagogical practices through lectures, seminars, workshops, observation and practice.

Career Opportunities

Musician

Studio and classroom teacher

Arts administrator/manager

Arts event manager

Arts advocate

Arts journalist

Sound designer

Roles in the music-recording and film industries