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Graduate Diploma in Music (GD-MUS)
Graduate DiplomaYear: 2019 Delivered: On Campus (Southbank)
About this course
- Overview
- Entry and participation requirements
- Attributes, outcomes and skills
- Course structure
- Further study
Principal Coordinator
Melanie Plesch
Overview
Award title | Graduate Diploma in Music |
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Year & campus | 2019 — Southbank |
CRICOS code | 056297D |
Fees information | Subject EFTSL, level, discipline and census date |
Study level & type | Graduate Coursework |
AQF level | 8 |
Credit points | 100 credit points |
Duration | 12 months full-time or 24 months part-time |
The Graduate Diploma in Music is designed for university graduates in any field who wish to undertake university-level study in music. The program draws together subjects from the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music's existing degree programs, and may be taken part-time or full-time.
Composition Specialisation: Students will acquire skills in instrumental and vocal writing, orchestration, electro-acoustic music, professional score presentation, rehearsal skills and concert management, alongside the development of a personal and original voice. Encouraging composition in all styles, students will work through all phases of the composition process, from first ideas to completion of a professionally presented score and interaction with performers in rehearsals, culminating in a public performance. Students can also choose from a range of electives, including ensembles, conducting, academic and applied skills, to complement the composition focus.
Ethnomusicology Specialisation: Students will acquire the skills and techniques of music ethnography. They will conceive, plan and complete a dissertation, and present a paper at a conference organised by the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music midway through the two semesters of enrolment. To support the writing of the dissertation, students will undertake the subject The Ethnography of Music, where discussion will centre on key issues – both historical and current - in ethnomusicology. Topics include ethnographic representation, fieldwork methods, ethical issues in field research, and connecting musical analysis with cultural analysis. Students will be assisted to become “experts” in a case study in an area of interest to them. Students will also choose from a range of academic and non-Western ensemble elective subjects relevant to their area of research and interest.
Musicology Specialisation: Students will acquire the skills and techniques of musicological research, including such issues as music bibliography, editorial and archival practices, as well as the mechanics of dissertation writing. They will conceive, plan and complete a dissertation, and present a paper at a conference organised by the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music mid-way through the two semesters of enrolment. To support the writing of the dissertation, students will undertake a Music Research subject, introducing them to current issues in musicology and the variety of resources and methodologies available for musicological research. Students will also choose academic elective subjects relevant to their area of research and interest.
Practical Music Specialisation: Students will develop instrumental, vocal or conducting technique to a level appropriate to a fourth year of study and a sophisticated awareness of the stylistic and interpretative characteristics of the repertory studies. Students will also take a number of ensemble electives to expand their practical experience. Subjects in Music Language, Aural Studies and historical, cultural and contextual studies add breadth and depth to the musical studies.
Tailored Program: Students will develop skills and techniques appropriate to their musical interests and vocational aspirations. Students will be supported in designing a personalised course of study choosing from a number of subjects that include academic electives, music analysis, composition and performance studies, as well as career preparation subjects designed to develop skills and knowledge in arts administration and management (including an internship).
Entry requirements
1. In order to be considered for entry, applicants must have completed:
- an undergraduate degree with a weighted average mark of at least H3 (65%) or equivalent; or
- at least five years of documented professional experience relevant to the specialisation.
2. Applicants for Practical Music, Musicology, Ethnomusicology and Composition specialisations must also successfully complete an audition, composition folio or piece of academic writing as appropriate for the specialisation that the applicant seeks to enter. Meeting these requirements does not guarantee selection.
3. In ranking applications, the Selection Committee will consider:
- prior academic performance; and, as appropriate to the specialisation,
- the audition, composition folio or piece of academic writing
4. The Selection Committee may seek further information to clarify any aspect of an application in accordance with Academic Board rules on the use of selection instruments.
5. Applicants are required to satisfy the university’s English language requirements for postgraduate courses. For those applicants seeking to meet these requirements by one of the standard tests approved by the Academic Board, performance band 6.5 is required.
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and Students Experiencing Academic Disadvantage Policy, academic requirements for this subject are articulated in the Subject Description, Subject Objectives, Generic Skills and Assessment Requirements of this entry.The University is dedicated to providingsupport to those with special requirements. Further details on the disability support scheme can be found at the Disability Liaison Unit website. http://www.services.unimelb.edu.au/disability/
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this course, students should be able to:
- Demonstrate a strong knowledge and understanding of their discipline
- Pursue musical knowledge and skills independently, with intellectual honesty and rigorous methods of inquiry
- Use and assimilate the potential of technologies to facilitate the dissemination of musical skills, knowledge and information
- Make critical, informed and sophisticated responses to new musical ideas, methodologies and theoretical frameworks
- Show empathy, self-reflection and critical intelligence in the dissemination of skills and knowledge in their specialisation
- Work competently and productively in a musical setting, both alone and in groups
- Integrate a holistic view of music from different times and places into their working and intellectual lives
- Participate with integrity, discrimination, sound knowledge and understanding in national and international debates, dialogues and discussions in their area of specialisation and in the discipline as a whole
- Communicate effectively
- Have a lifelong commitment to learning
Generic skills
Graduates should also have developed the following skills:
- A sound attitude towards undertaking life-long learning in music
- A well-developed capacity to understand and participate as an individual and in collaborative teams as a leader or as a team member
- A sophisticated level of written, verbal and musical communication skills
- An ability to think critically and analytically about the musical experience in all its facets: as performance, as composition, and as historical-sociocultural document
Graduate attributes
University of Melbourne postgraduate coursework degrees seek to develop graduates who demonstrate a capacity for contemporary professional practice and/or specialist knowledge and theory. Postgraduate coursework degrees have multiple purposes. They are designed to provide students with the opportunity for advanced knowledge and understanding in a specialist area; to enhance professional knowledge and skills; and to engage with new and emerging fields of study.
Course structure
The Graduate Diploma in Music requires the successful completion of 100 credit points of Music subjects.
Subject options
Tailored Program
100 credit points of Electives.
Practical Music Specialisation
ONE OF
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
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MUSI10023 | Music Language 1: the Diatonic World | No longer available | |
MUSI20061 | Music Language 2: Chromaticism & Beyond | No longer available | |
MUSI30046 | Music Language 3: Modern Directions | No longer available |
PLUS
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
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MUSI40016 | Practical Study 1 | No longer available | |
MUSI40017 | Practical Study 2 | No longer available | |
MUSI40064 | The Research Process for Musicians | No longer available |
PLUS
50 credit points of electives.
Musicology Specialisation
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
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MUSI40078 | Music Research (Honours) | No longer available | |
MUSI40104 | Dissertation Part 1 | No longer available | |
MUSI40105 | Dissertation Part 2 | No longer available |
PLUS
50 credit points of electives.
Ethnomusicology Specialisation
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
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MUSI30053 | The Ethnography of Music | No longer available | |
MUSI40104 | Dissertation Part 1 | No longer available | |
MUSI40105 | Dissertation Part 2 | No longer available |
PLUS
50 credit points of electives.
Composition Specialisation
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
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MUSI40012 | GradDip Composition 1 | No longer available | |
MUSI40013 | GradDip Composition 2 | No longer available |
PLUS
62.5 credit points of electives.
The following electives are particularly recommended for students in the Composition specialisation:
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
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MUSI30025 | Orchestration | No longer available | |
MUSI30031 | Electro-Acoustic Music | No longer available | |
MUSI30046 | Music Language 3: Modern Directions | No longer available |
Electives (12.5 Credit Points)
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
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MUSI10017 | Riffs: Guitar Cultures & Practice 1 | No longer available | |
MUSI10047 | Music History 1: Monteverdi to Mozart | No longer available | |
MUSI10023 | Music Language 1: the Diatonic World | No longer available | |
MUSI20196 | Riffs: Guitar Cultures & Practice 2 | No longer available | |
MUSI20198 | Music History 2: C19th Music and Ideas | No longer available | |
MUSI20061 | Music Language 2: Chromaticism & Beyond | No longer available | |
MUSI30031 | Electro-Acoustic Music | No longer available | |
MUSI30004 | Music and Film since 1900 | No longer available | |
MUSI30249 | Music History 3:Impressionism to Present | No longer available | |
MUSI30046 | Music Language 3: Modern Directions | No longer available | |
MUSI30025 | Orchestration | No longer available | |
MUSI40073 | Composition Studies | No longer available | |
MUSI40036 | Conducting | No longer available | |
MUSI40103 | Figured Bass Realisation 1 | No longer available | |
MUSI40100 | French Music Louis XIV to the Revolution | No longer available | |
MUSI40032 | Historical Performance Practice | No longer available | |
MUSI40086 | Honours Thesis | No longer available | |
MUSI40090 | Latin American Music and Culture | No longer available | |
MUSI40055 | Music Analysis | No longer available | |
MUSI40074 | Music and Health | No longer available | |
MUSI40099 | Music and Politics | No longer available | |
MUSI40094 | Music as Noise: Making Sound Art | No longer available | |
MUSI40047 | Music in the Culture of the Renaissance | No longer available | |
MUSI40091 | Music Internship | No longer available | |
MUSI40092 | Music Management and Enterprise | No longer available | |
MUSI40075 | Music Psychology | No longer available | |
MUSI40078 | Music Research (Honours) | No longer available | |
MUSI40076 | Musics of the World | No longer available | |
MUSI40027 | Paris! Berlioz to the Ballets Russes | No longer available | |
MUSI40070 | Professional Project (Ethnomusicology) | No longer available | |
MUSI40071 | Professional Project (Musicology) | No longer available | |
MUSI40058 | Sex, Death and the Ecstatic in Music | No longer available | |
MUSI40056 | Special Study | No longer available | |
MUSI40021 | Stravinsky and Music of the 20th Century | No longer available | |
MUSI40054 | Studies In Opera | No longer available | |
MUSI40079 | The Ethnography of Music (Honours) | No longer available | |
MUSI40095 | The Music of Spain | No longer available | |
MUSI40098 | The Romantic Piano | No longer available | |
MUSI40028 | Women in Music | No longer available | |
MUSI40088 | Integrated Musical Practice 1 | No longer available | |
MUSI40089 | Integrated Musical Practice 2 | No longer available | |
MUSI20209 | Chinese Music Ensemble 2 | No longer available | |
MUSI40049 | High Baroque Music of the German World | No longer available | |
MUSI40064 | The Research Process for Musicians | No longer available |
Electives (6.25 Credit Points)
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
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MUSI10016 | Art of Piano Teaching | No longer available | |
MUSI10204 | Audiation through Solfège | No longer available | |
MUSI10004 | Computing for Musicians | No longer available | |
MUSI10001 | Language and Diction German | No longer available | |
MUSI10002 | Language and Diction: Italian | No longer available | |
MUSI10207 | Medieval and Renaissance Ensemble 1 | No longer available | |
MUSI10206 | Medieval and Renaissance Ensemble 2 | No longer available | |
MUSI20161 | Alexander Technique for Musicians | No longer available | |
MUSI20207 | Aural Studies 1 | No longer available | |
MUSI20160 | Aural Studies 2 | No longer available | |
MUSI20108 | MCM Chinese Music Ensemble | No longer available | |
MUSI20084 | Famous Opera Choruses 1 | No longer available | |
MUSI20087 | MCM Indonesian Gamelan Ensemble 1 | No longer available | |
MUSI20088 | MCM Indonesian Gamelan Ensemble 2 | No longer available | |
MUSI20155 | Latin American Music and Culture | No longer available | |
MUSI20211 | Percussion Ensemble | No longer available | |
MUSI20104 | Shakuhachi 1 | No longer available | |
MUSI20105 | Shakuhachi 2 | No longer available | |
MUSI30159 | Acting for Singers 1 | No longer available | |
MUSI30160 | Acting for Singers 2 | No longer available | |
MUSI30255 | Advanced Aural Studies | No longer available | |
MUSI30163 | Baroque Ensemble 1 | No longer available | |
MUSI30164 | Baroque Ensemble 2 | No longer available | |
MUSI30165 | Big Band 3 | No longer available | |
MUSI30166 | Big Band 4 | No longer available | |
MUSI30167 | Brass Ensemble 1 | No longer available | |
MUSI30168 | Brass Ensemble 2 | No longer available | |
MUSI30019 | Chamber Music 3 | No longer available | |
MUSI30020 | Chamber Music 4 | No longer available | |
MUSI30174 | Conservatorium Choir 1 | No longer available | |
MUSI30175 | Conservatorium Choir 2 | No longer available | |
MUSI30254 | Creating from the Single Staff Score | No longer available | |
MUSI30172 | Early Voices 1 | No longer available | |
MUSI30173 | Early Voices 2 | No longer available | |
MUSI30181 | Guitar Ensemble 5 | No longer available | |
MUSI30182 | Guitar Ensemble 6 | No longer available | |
MUSI30185 | Orchestral Ensembles 5 | No longer available | |
MUSI30186 | Orchestral Ensembles 6 | No longer available | |
MUSI30193 | Piano Duo and Duet 1 | No longer available | |
MUSI30194 | Piano Duo and Duet 2 | No longer available | |
MUSI20210 | Saxophone Ensemble | No longer available | |
MUSI30183 | String Ensemble 1 | No longer available | |
MUSI30184 | String Ensemble 2 | No longer available | |
MUSI30045 | Studies In Opera | No longer available | |
MUSI30244 | Chamber Choir 5 | No longer available | |
MUSI30258 | Chamber Choir 6 | No longer available | |
MUSI30206 | Vocal Ensemble 1 | No longer available | |
MUSI30207 | Vocal Ensemble 2 | No longer available | |
MUSI20156 | Practical Anatomy for Classical Voice 1 | No longer available | |
MUSI30262 | French Lyric Diction | No longer available | |
MUSI10225 | Chamber Choir 1 | No longer available | |
MUSI10226 | Chamber Choir 2 | No longer available | |
MUSI20215 | Medieval and Renaissance Ensemble 3 | No longer available | |
MUSI20216 | Medieval and Renaissance Ensemble 4 | No longer available | |
MUSI20213 | Chamber Choir 3 | No longer available | |
MUSI20214 | Chamber Choir 4 | No longer available | |
MUSI30260 | Medieval and Renaissance Ensemble 5 | No longer available | |
MUSI30261 | Medieval and Renaissance Ensemble 6 | No longer available | |
MUSI30259 | Interpretation of French Art Song | No longer available |
Further study
Graduates may progress to a range of other graduate coursework programs, as well as research higher degree programs including the Doctor of Philosophy.
Last updated: 3 June 2023