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Graduate Diploma in Music (GD-MUS) // Course structure
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About this course
- Overview
- Entry and participation requirements
- Attributes, outcomes and skills
- Course structure
- Further study
Contact
Students currently admitted in this course:
Future students:
Coordinator
Melanie Plesch
Course structure
100-point program
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 |
---|---|---|---|
MUSI10023 | Music Language 1: the Diatonic World |
Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank)
|
12.5 |
MUSI20061 | Music Language 2: Chromaticism & Beyond |
Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank)
|
12.5 |
MUSI30046 | Music Language 3: Modern Directions |
Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank)
|
12.5 |
PLUS
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
MUSI40016 | Practical Study 1 |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank)
|
12.5 |
MUSI40017 | Practical Study 2 |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank)
|
12.5 |
MUSI40064 | The Research Process for Musicians |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank)
|
12.5 |
PLUS
50 credit points of electives.
Musicology Specialisation
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
MUSI40078 | Music Research (Honours) | Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank) |
12.5 |
MUSI40104 | Dissertation Part 1 |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank)
|
18.75 |
MUSI40105 | Dissertation Part 2 |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank)
|
18.75 |
PLUS
50 credit points of electives.
Ethnomusicology Specialisation
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
MUSI30053 | The Ethnography of Music | Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank) |
12.5 |
MUSI40104 | Dissertation Part 1 |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank)
|
18.75 |
MUSI40105 | Dissertation Part 2 |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank)
|
18.75 |
PLUS
50 credit points of electives.
Composition Specialisation
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
MUSI40012 | GradDip Composition 1 |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank)
|
18.75 |
MUSI40013 | GradDip Composition 2 |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank)
|
18.75 |
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 |
---|---|---|---|
MUSI30025 | Orchestration | Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank) |
12.5 |
MUSI30031 | Electro-Acoustic Music | Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank) |
12.5 |
MUSI30046 | Music Language 3: Modern Directions |
Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank)
|
12.5 |
Elective Subjects
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
MUSI40107 | Capstone Music Project Part 1 |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank)
|
18.75 |
MUSI40108 | No longer available | ||
MUSI10017 | Riffs: Guitar Cultures & Practice 1 |
Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
MUSI10047 | Music History 1: Monteverdi to Mozart | Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank) |
12.5 |
MUSI10023 | Music Language 1: the Diatonic World |
Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank)
|
12.5 |
MUSI20196 | Riffs: Guitar Cultures & Practice 2 | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
MUSI20198 | Music History 2: C19th Music and Ideas |
Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank)
|
12.5 |
MUSI20061 | Music Language 2: Chromaticism & Beyond |
Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank)
|
12.5 |
MUSI30031 | Electro-Acoustic Music | Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank) |
12.5 |
MUSI30004 | Music and Film since 1900 | Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank) |
12.5 |
MUSI30249 | Music History 3:Impressionism to Present |
Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank)
|
12.5 |
MUSI30046 | Music Language 3: Modern Directions |
Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank)
|
12.5 |
MUSI30025 | Orchestration | Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank) |
12.5 |
MUSI40073 | Composition Studies | Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank) |
12.5 |
MUSI40036 | Conducting | Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank) |
12.5 |
MUSI40103 | Figured Bass Realisation 1 | Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank) |
12.5 |
MUSI40100 | French Music Louis XIV to the Revolution | Not available in 2020 | 12.5 |
MUSI40032 | Historical Performance Practice | Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank) |
12.5 |
MUSI40090 | Latin American Music and Culture | Not available in 2020 | 12.5 |
MUSI40055 | Music Analysis | Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank) |
12.5 |
MUSI40074 | Music and Health | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
MUSI40099 | Music and Politics | Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank) |
12.5 |
MUSI40094 | Music as Noise: Making Sound Art | Not available in 2020 | 12.5 |
MUSI40047 | Music in the Culture of the Renaissance | Not available in 2020 | 12.5 |
MUSI40091 | Music Internship | Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank) |
12.5 |
MUSI40092 | Music Management and Enterprise | Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank) |
12.5 |
MUSI40075 | Music Psychology | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
MUSI40078 | Music Research (Honours) | Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank) |
12.5 |
MUSI40076 | Musics of the World | Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank) |
12.5 |
MUSI40027 | Paris! Berlioz to the Ballets Russes | Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank) |
12.5 |
MUSI40070 | Professional Project (Ethnomusicology) | Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank) |
12.5 |
MUSI40071 | Professional Project (Musicology) |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank)
|
12.5 |
MUSI40058 | Sex, Death and the Ecstatic in Music | Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank) |
12.5 |
MUSI40056 | Special Study |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank)
|
12.5 |
MUSI40021 | Stravinsky and Music of the 20th Century | Not available in 2020 | 12.5 |
MUSI40054 | Studies In Opera | Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank) |
12.5 |
MUSI40079 | The Ethnography of Music (Honours) | Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank) |
12.5 |
MUSI40095 | The Music of Spain | Not available in 2020 | 12.5 |
MUSI40098 | The Romantic Piano | Not available in 2020 | 12.5 |
MUSI40028 | Music and Gender | Not available in 2020 | 12.5 |
MUSI40088 | Integrated Musical Practice 1 |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank)
|
12.5 |
MUSI40089 | Integrated Musical Practice 2 |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank)
|
12.5 |
MUSI20209 | Chinese Music Ensemble 2 | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
MUSI40049 | High Baroque Music of the German World | Not available in 2020 | 12.5 |
MUSI40064 | The Research Process for Musicians |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank)
|
12.5 |
MUSI40109 | Wagner's Ring | Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank) |
12.5 |
MUSI10016 | Art of Piano Teaching | Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank) |
6.25 |
MUSI10204 | Applied Aural Musicianship 1 | Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank) |
6.25 |
MUSI10004 | Computing for Musicians | Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank) |
6.25 |
MUSI10001 | Language and Diction German | Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank) |
6.25 |
MUSI10002 | Language and Diction: Italian | Not available in 2020 | 6.25 |
MUSI10207 | Medieval and Renaissance Ensemble 1 | Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank) |
6.25 |
MUSI10206 | Medieval and Renaissance Ensemble 2 | Not available in 2020 | 6.25 |
MUSI20161 | Alexander Technique for Musicians | Not available in 2020 | 6.25 |
MUSI20207 | Applied Aural Musicianship 2 | Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank) |
6.25 |
MUSI20160 | Applied Aural Musicianship 3 | Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank) |
6.25 |
MUSI20108 | MCM Chinese Music Ensemble |
Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
6.25 |
MUSI20084 | Famous Opera Choruses 1 | Not available in 2020 | 6.25 |
MUSI20087 | MCM Indonesian Gamelan Ensemble 1 | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
MUSI20088 | MCM Indonesian Gamelan Ensemble 2 |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
6.25 |
MUSI20155 | Latin American Music and Culture | Not available in 2020 | 12.5 |
MUSI20211 | Percussion Ensemble | Not available in 2020 | 6.25 |
MUSI20104 | Shakuhachi 1 | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
MUSI20105 | Shakuhachi 2 | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
MUSI30159 | Acting for Singers 1 | Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank) |
6.25 |
MUSI30160 | Acting for Singers 2 | Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank) |
6.25 |
MUSI30255 | Applied Aural Musicianship 4 | Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank) |
6.25 |
MUSI30163 | Baroque Ensemble 1 | Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank) |
6.25 |
MUSI30164 | Baroque Ensemble 2 | Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank) |
6.25 |
MUSI30165 | Big Band 3 | Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank) |
6.25 |
MUSI30166 | Big Band 4 | Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank) |
6.25 |
MUSI30167 | Brass Ensemble 1 | Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank) |
6.25 |
MUSI30168 | Brass Ensemble 2 | Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank) |
6.25 |
MUSI30019 | Chamber Music 3 |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank)
|
6.25 |
MUSI30020 | Chamber Music 4 |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank)
|
6.25 |
MUSI30174 | Conservatorium Choir 1 | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
MUSI30175 | Conservatorium Choir 2 | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
MUSI30254 | Creating from the Single Staff Score | Not available in 2020 | 6.25 |
MUSI30172 | Early Voices 1 | Not available in 2020 | 6.25 |
MUSI30173 | Early Voices 2 | Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank) |
6.25 |
MUSI30181 | Guitar Ensemble 5 | Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank) |
6.25 |
MUSI30182 | Guitar Ensemble 6 | Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank) |
6.25 |
MUSI30185 | Orchestral Ensembles 5 | Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank) |
6.25 |
MUSI30186 | Orchestral Ensembles 6 | Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank) |
6.25 |
MUSI30193 | Piano Duo and Duet 1 | Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank) |
6.25 |
MUSI30194 | Piano Duo and Duet 2 | Not available in 2020 | 6.25 |
MUSI20210 | Saxophone Ensemble | Not available in 2020 | 6.25 |
MUSI30183 | String Ensemble 1 | Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank) |
6.25 |
MUSI30184 | String Ensemble 2 | Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank) |
6.25 |
MUSI30045 | Studies In Opera | Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank) |
12.5 |
MUSI30244 | Chamber Choir 5 | Not available in 2020 | 6.25 |
MUSI30258 | Chamber Choir 6 | Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank) |
6.25 |
MUSI30206 | Vocal Ensemble 1 | Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank) |
6.25 |
MUSI30207 | Vocal Ensemble 2 | Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank) |
6.25 |
MUSI20156 | Practical Anatomy for Classical Voice 1 | Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank) |
6.25 |
MUSI30262 | French Lyric Diction | Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank) |
6.25 |
MUSI10225 | Chamber Choir 1 | Not available in 2020 | 6.25 |
MUSI10226 | Chamber Choir 2 | Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank) |
6.25 |
MUSI20215 | Medieval and Renaissance Ensemble 3 | Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank) |
6.25 |
MUSI20216 | Medieval and Renaissance Ensemble 4 | Not available in 2020 | 6.25 |
MUSI20213 | Chamber Choir 3 | Not available in 2020 | 6.25 |
MUSI20214 | Chamber Choir 4 | Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank) |
6.25 |
MUSI30260 | Medieval and Renaissance Ensemble 5 | Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank) |
6.25 |
MUSI30261 | Medieval and Renaissance Ensemble 6 | Not available in 2020 | 6.25 |
MUSI30259 | Interpretation of French Art Song |
April (Online)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank)
|
6.25 |
Last updated: 18 December 2020