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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Music
The Faculty of Music is the oldest and one of the largest music schools at any Australian university. With its distinctive balance of practical training and academic study, it produces comprehensively trained musicians who frequently take up positions of leadership in their fields.
The Faculty fosters excellence in advanced music education, contributes to musical scholarship and research in a wide range of fields, and supports the musical life of the community with public concerts and programs.
As the most richly endowed music school in Australia, the Faculty can offer its students an unequalled array of scholarships. Facilities include an excellent concert hall (Melba Hall), the historic Conservatorium of Music building, the Grainger Museum of rare musical instruments and materials, the Centre for Studies in Australian Music and the Early Music Studio. Activities funded by the Faculty include the annual Myer Free Orchestral Concerts and the Lyre-Bird Press (Editions de l'Oiseau-Lyre), one of the world's foremost publishers of scholarly musical editions.
The Faculty offers both undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Students wishing to enter the music profession are directed to the Bachelor of Music (BMus) degree. This course is a flexible one, but contains a compulsory core of subjects that form the basis of the broad theoretical knowledge and advanced practical skill expected of a graduate musician. Practical skills are an important focus, and a student's practical abilities must be demonstrated before admission.
BMus students take a common first year, and in later years add to the core a variety of subject patterns which prepare them for careers as performers, composers, teachers, musicologists, ethnomusicologists, music therapists, music administrators, or in other related fields. The Music Therapy pattern contains all the requirements for registration with the appropriate professional body. The BMus degree is awarded at pass and honours level according to the quality of a student's results.
Students without well-developed practical skills who wish to develop their understanding of music as part of a broader course are directed to the Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree, in which they may include individual music subjects at a level appropriate to their musical background to form a major in music.
Students in the BMus take individual practical lessons, practical classes and ensembles, and all students participate in lectures, seminars, listening programs and tutorials. A series of Monday lunch hour and special evening concerts is conducted each year and is free to music students, who are expected to attend regularly. Details appear in the Concert Diary, available from the Faculty Office. Lectures by visiting scholars are presented regularly on Thursday mornings, and postgraduate students attend these as part of their obligations.
For music graduates of high achievement, specialised teaching and supervision is available in postgraduate courses leading to the Master of Music, Master of Arts in music, and the Doctor of Philosophy. A graduate diploma is available for music graduates seeking qualifications in music therapy (DipMusTherapy), or in guided imagery and music (GradDipGIM) and a Doctor of Music degree is also awarded.
The mission of the Faculty of Music is:
to aspire to national and international leadership in music education and research through the provision of undergraduate and postgraduate degree programs of the highest quality, and to contribute to all areas of international musical and musicological life at the highest level;
to assume community prominence as a provider of quality education programs and leadership in musical life.
In order to achieve this, the Faculty is committed to excellence in all its activities, and seeks:
to nurture and develop a wide range of musical talents and skills, preparing students to take their place in the community as teachers, performers, composers, music therapists, musicologists and ethnomusicologists, in a range of other occupations requiring music ability;
to foster excellence in the areas of research and scholarship in music studies, composition and performance, promoting an understanding of music in its social and historical development;
to promote informed interest in music and the performance of music, within the University and the community.
Bachelor of Music BMus
Bachelor of Music (Honours) BMus(Hons)
Diploma in Music (Practical) DipMusPrac
Bachelor of Music/Bachelor of Arts BMus/BA
Bachelor of Music/Bachelor of Arts (Honours) BMus/BA(Hons)
Bachelor of Music/Bachelor of Teaching BMus/BTeach
Graduate Diploma in Music Therapy GradDipMusTherapy
Graduate Diploma in Guided Imagery and Music GradDipGIM
Graduate Diploma in Composition (Electroacoustic/Instrumental & Vocal/Film & Television) GradDipComp
Graduate Diploma in Music Recording and Production
Postgraduate Diploma in Improvisational Music Therapy
Graduate Diploma in Instrumental & Vocal Teaching
Master of Music MMus
Doctor of Philosophy PhD
Doctor of Music DMus
Applicants for admission to the BMus course are required to have achieved a VCE grade average of at least D in English and in three of Accounting, Art, Australian Studies, Biology, Chemistry, Classical Societies and Cultures, Economics, Geography, Geology, Graphic Communication, History, Information Technology, International Studies, Legal Studies, Literature, LOTE, Mathematics, Music: History & Styles, Music Performance, Physics, Political Studies, Psychology, either Religion and Society or Texts and Traditions.
Subjects to be included in the 'best four' are English and three others from the list above. Students are encouraged to take as much VCE music as possible.
In addition, all applicants are required to undertake an audition and a musicianship test in the Faculty of Music.
Knowledge of Music Theory and Harmony of at least Grade 5 AMEB level or its equivalent is necessary. Applicants must also have reached approximately Grade 7 AMEB standard or its equivalent on their instrument.
Entry to the Faculty of Music undergraduate combined Bachelor of Music/Bachelor of Arts (BMus/BA) course requires an applicant to meet both the BMus and BA entry requirements. All prospective students should contact the Faculty for BMus entry details, an audition application form and information about the musicianship test.
For details of music subjects and the music major available in the BA, see the Faculty of Arts entry in this Handbook.
For the BMus, course requirements and electives are listed below. Before enrolling, note that non-music subjects taught at times conflicting with music subjects must be avoided. Both the lecture timetable and Ensemble and Practical Class schedules should be checked - these are posted on the notice board early in each year. Practical Study lessons are individually arranged.
More detailed information about the BMus courses and activities is given in the Faculty of Music Undergraduate Manual, available from the Faculty of Music. The Degree Programs Manager, Faculty of Music, is available to clarify music enrolment matters, and advice on academic matters should be sought from the Deputy Dean or Dean.
The BMus course is designed to provide students with a perspective for the discipline of music and the specialist knowledge and skills that should prepare them for a professional career in music.
The Bachelor of Music course has as its objectives that graduates:
can demonstrate the professional musical skills and expertise required to enable them to take their place in the community as teachers, performers, composers, music therapists, musicologists, or in a range of occupations requiring musical ability;
can apply critical and analytical skills, an independent approach to knowledge and intellectual understanding of music in a broad and changing range of social and historical contexts;
can communicate effectively as promotors of an informed interest in music and the performance of music among scholars as well as in the wider community; and
have a continuing commitment to music learning informed by current research.
BMus students are expected to study intensively the instrument with which they completed the entrance requirement without change or interruption for at least two years. Those who complete Practical Study 2 with excellent results may then proceed to the Performance pattern (Music Performance 3, 4), while for others Practical Study 3 and 4 are optional.
In addition to their Practical Study, all students in the Music Therapy pattern receive group tuition over two years in various instruments important to their work, and students in the Performance course pattern are encouraged to take a Second Practical Study.
Aside from instrumental tuition, all BMus students take an intensive aural training subject, a program of ensemble work, a sequence of theoretical studies, and a comprehensive music literature requirement. In Ensemble they are allocated by the Dean to one or more of the Faculty's performing groups. Currently, these include the Faculty Orchestra, Choir, Chamber Choir, Baroque Ensemble, Contemporary Ensemble, Big Band, Early Music Ensemble and a number of others. These ensembles are dependent on attendance, and full participation is expected.
Attendance at public concerts is also regarded as important, and all BMus students are required to attend and write short reports on a minimum of ten concerts approved by the Faculty each year.
The first year is common to all BMus students. In second year, students who wish to prepare for a career in music therapy follow the course prescribed for that specialisation, and those with potential for advanced work in composition may seek permission to substitute Composition for a Practical Study. All other students take the compulsory BMus core and have a wide choice of subject combinations. Those preparing for careers in solo or orchestral performance may give their course an intensively practical orientation; those interested in musicology focus on academic subjects.
All students are required to take at least one subject in another faculty at some time during their course; otherwise, however, enrolment in non-music subjects is optional. In some course patterns, study outside music is desirable, and relevant subjects are suggested below. The authorisation of the Degree Programs Manager is necessary for all subjects taken from other faculties.
All candidates for the degree shall, during the four years of their studies, complete subjects in another faculty of no less than 20 credit points to a maximum of 50 points approved in advance by the Faculty of Music.
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First year As above.
Second year points 740-236 Practical Study 2 740-264 Music Techniques 2-1 740-229 Music Techniques 2-2 One Group A music history subject 10.0 512-100 Psychology 1 740-275 Music Therapy Clinical Practicum 1 740-231 Applied Music Skills - Therapy Vocal students are advised to take 740-270 Language and Diction 2 Sub-total points 100.0
Third year points 740-364 Applications of Music in Therapy 740-389 Music Therapy Clinical Practicum 2 740-390 Group Music Therapy Methods 740-365 Understanding Physical Disabilities in Music Therapy 512-211 Psychology 2M 196-103 Human Behaviour and Social Environment for Social Work Practice 1 Subject from Group A or B 10.0 Sub-total points 100.0
Fourth year points 740-459 Clinical Practice in Music Therapy 740-458 Music Therapy Methods Subject from Group A, B or C 10.0 740-366 Music Psychology Sub-total points 100.0 Total points 400.0
Students wishing to prepare for careers in music education transfer to the combined Bachelor of Music/Bachelor of Teaching course at the end of their second year. They spend their first year in the Music course, then in second year study some education subjects which, if passed with good results, will lead them to transfer into the combined degree at the beginning of third year. The next three years are then spent in the combined course, including an internship in a school in the final year. Core subjects from the Bachelor of Music course are combined with training in applied music skills related to teaching, and studies in education. Graduates qualify for registration as specialist music teachers in primary and secondary schools in both classroom and instrumental methods.
Combined Bachelor of Music/Bachelor of Teaching
While the Music Therapy course is largely fixed in its structure, there is considerable flexibility for all other students. Beyond the core subjects, students may focus their course according to their aspirations or interests into, at one extreme, an intensively practical study program or, at the other extreme, a largely academic degree.
Students are advised to consider their career interests and make their subject choices accordingly. In preparing for certain careers, the following patterns are recommended.
In 1997, two new streams are being introduced with a fixed pattern: Early Music and Musicology. There are set requirements for these streams which need to be followed, as opposed to the recommended patterns which are more flexible.
This course aims to provide specialist education and training in the performance of music principally of the medieval, renaissance and baroque periods on historical instruments and according to historical performance practices, together with the scholarly studies related to the discipline. In addition to this, it shares the common objectives of the Bachelor of Music course.
The specialist stream will commence in the third year of the course, however it is recommended that students take their two music history subjects from the following in second year: Music in Medieval Europe, Music in the Renaissance or Baroque & Rococo Music.
Early Music Stream
First year As above Second year 740-236 Practical Study 2 740-264 Music Techniques 2-1 740-229 Music Techniques 2-2 740-202 Ensemble 2-1 740-203 Ensemble 2-2 2 Group A subjects 20.0 Subjects from Group B or another Faculty 20.0 Sub-total points 100.0 Third year 740-336 Practical Study 3 740-386 Music Analysis 740-343 Ensemble 3-1 740-344 Ensemble 3-2 740-335 Subjects from Groups A, B or C or in another Faculty 40.0 Sub-total points 100.0 Fourth year 740-436 Practical Study 4 740-402 Ensemble 4-1 740-403 Ensemble 4-2 Subjects from Group B or another Faculty 30.0 Subjects from Group C 20.0 Sub-total points 100.0 Total points 400.0
In choosing subjects from Groups A, B & C, students should be taking as much early music study as possible.
Students preparing for careers in solo or orchestral performance should take the maximum number of practical subjects and choose Group A subjects from the periods of their instruments repertoire. As such students often seek further study in Europe, a European language subject may be desirable. A suggested pattern is:
Performance pattern
Second year 740-236 Practical Study 2 740-264 Music Techniques 2-1 740-229 Music Techniques 2-2 740-272 Eighteenth-Century Classicism in Music 740-273 Nineteenth-Century Music 740-202 Ensemble 2-1 740-203 Ensemble 2-2 1 Group A or B subject 10.0 Subject outside the Faculty 10.0 Vocal students are advised to take 740-270 Language and Diction 2 Sub-total points 100.0 Third year 740-306 Music Performance 3 740-385 Music Techniques 3 740-343 Ensemble 3-1 740-344 Ensemble 3-2 126-101 Beginners German A 740-342 Orchestration and Arrangement 1 740-305 Orchestral Repertoire and Materials Either 740-267 Chamber Music 1 740-413 Chamber Music 2 or 740-268 Keyboard Accompaniment 1 Sub-total points 120.0 Fourth year 740-406 Music Performance 4 740-386 Music Analysis 740-402 Ensemble 4-1 740-403 Ensemble 4-2 740-480 Conducting 1 Group B or C subject 10.0 Sub-total points 90.0 Total points 410.0
Students preparing for careers in the studio teaching of their instruments should take Practical Study 3 and 4, Approaches to Pedagogy, Performance teaching 1 and 2, and such electives as History of Instruments. A suggested pattern is:
Instrumental/vocal teaching pattern
Second year 740-236 Practical Study 2 740-264 Music Techniques 2-1 740-229 Music Techniques 2-2 740-202 Ensemble 2-1 740-203 Ensemble 2-2 2 Group A Music History subjects 20.0 Subjects from Group B or in another Faculty 20.0 Vocal students are also advised to take 740-270 Language and Diction 2 Sub-total points 100.0 Third year 740-336 Practical Study 3 740-385 Music Techniques 3 740-386 Music Analysis 740-343 Ensemble 3-1 740-344 Ensemble 3-2 740-342 Orchestration and Arrangement 1 Subject from Group B or C 10.0 Either 740-267 Chamber Music 1 740-413 Chamber Music 2 or 740-268 Keyboard Accompaniment 1 740-393 Approaches to Pedagogy Sub-total points 100.0 Fourth year 740-436 Practical Study 4 740-402 Ensemble 4-1 740-403 Ensemble 4-2 740-480 Conducting 740-481 Performance Teaching 1 740-482 Performance Teaching 2 740-283 History of Instruments 1 Group B or C subject 10.0 Sub-total points 100.0 Total points 400.0
Students preparing for careers as composers or arrangers take Composition 1 in second year, and choose Group A subjects from contemporary periods and Group B subjects involving technical skills. Some grounding in aesthetics, art history, mathematics or linguistics might also be desirable. A suggested pattern is:
Composition pattern
Second year 740-227 Composition 1 740-356 Introduction to Electro-Acoustic Music 740-264 Music Techniques 2-1 740-229 Music Techniques 2-2 740-202 Ensemble 2-1 740-203 Ensemble 2-2 740-348 Technology and Composition 740-265 Music in Australia - An Introduction 1 Group A subject 10.0 Sub-total points 100.0 Third year 740-327 Composition 2 740-385 Music Techniques 3 740-386 Music Analysis 740-112 Musical Acoustics 740-342 Orchestration and Arrangement 1 740-343 Ensemble 3-1 740-344 Ensemble 3-2 Subject outside Faculty 10.0 Sub-total points 100.0 Fourth year 740-427 Composition 3 740-402 Ensemble 4-1 740-403 Ensemble 4-2 740-480 Conducting 740-379 Australian Performers in Context or 740-302 Nationalism & Identity in Australian Composition Subjects outside Faculty 20.0 Sub-total points 100.0 Total points 400.0
This course aims to develop students' understanding and knowledge of music, musical scholarship and research methods to prepare them as professional musicologists. Students will complete advanced seminars in music history, theory, research methodology and systematic disciplines such as analysis, aesthetics, historiography and palaeography. A dissertation presenting the results of a substantial project is the culminating point of the course.
Students choose this stream in preparation for careers in music criticism, librarianship, journalism, research, editing, radio and television music programming, or other branches of musicology. Emphasis is on academic studies within the course and students should take a full program of Group A and C subjects, and an introductory writing subject or some language studies.
Musicology stream
Second year 740-236 Practical Study 2 740-264 Music Techniques 2-1 740-229 Music Techniques 2-2 740-202 Ensemble 2-1 740-203 Ensemble 2-2 2 Group A subjects 20.0 Subject outside Faculty (Language recommended) 20.0 Vocal students should also take 740-270 Language and Diction 2 Sub-total points 100.0 Third year 740-359 Musicological Research Method 740-385 Music Techniques 3 740-343 Ensemble 3-1 740-344 Ensemble 3-2 740-386 Music Analysis Subjects from Groups B & C or subjects in another Faculty 30.0 Three subjects from Group C including any two of: Music Aesthetics, Music Criticism, Music Historiography, Music Iconography, Music Palaeography 30.0 Sub-total points 100.0 Fourth year 740-462 Dissertation 740-402 Ensemble 4-1 740-403 Ensemble 4-2 Subjects from Groups B & C or in another Faculty 30.0 Two subjects from Group C 20.0 Sub-total points 100.0 Total points 400.0
The Faculty has unique resources for students wishing to specialise in Australian Music studies. Such students should combine the Musicology pattern with Music in Australia and the full range of Group C subjects in this area. Australian studies in history, art or literature are also useful. A suggested pattern is:
Australian music pattern
Second year 740-236 Practical Study 2 740-264 Music Techniques 2-1 740-229 Music Techniques 2-2 740-202 Ensemble 2-1 740-203 Ensemble 2-2 740-265 Music in Australia - An Introduction Subjects outside Faculty 20.0 740-274 Modernism in Music Since 1890 Vocal students also take 740-270 Language and Diction 2 Sub-total points 100.0 Third year 740-359 Musicological Research Method 740-343 Ensemble 3-1 740-344 Ensemble 3-2 740-385 Music Techniques 3 740-386 Music Analysis 740-342 Orchestration and Arrangement 1 Subjects from Group B or C 40.0 and 740-387 Traditional and Contemporary Aboriginal Music or 740-379 Australian Performers in Context Sub-total points 100.0 Fourth year 740-462 Dissertation 740-402 Ensemble 4-1 740-403 Ensemble 4-2 Subjects from Group B or C 20.0 131-109 Australian History A: the Colonial Experiment 106-283 From Rock To Rap: Cultural Formations and 740-388 Migrant Music in Australia or 740-302 Nationalism & Identity in Australian Composition
Students preparing for careers in research or teaching of the music of other cultures or urban and sociological studies of our own musical culture should combine Music Cultures of the World and Topics in Ethnomusicology with subjects from the Musicology pattern. Introductory studies in anthropology, sociology and linguistics, as well as cultural studies in the area they are interested in, are desirable. A suggested pattern is:
Ethnomusicology pattern
Second year 740-236 Practical Study 2 740-264 Music Techniques 2-1 740-229 Music Techniques 2-2 740-144 Music Cultures of the World - An Introduction One Group A subject 10.0 Subject outside Faculty e.g.136-170/172 Anthropology 1A/B 20.0 740-202 Ensemble 2-1 740-203 Ensemble 2-2 Vocal students also take 740-270 Language and Diction 2 Sub-total points 100.0 Third year 740-321 Theory & Method in Ethnomusicology 740-343 Ensemble 3-1 740-344 Ensemble 3-2 740-385 Music Techniques 3 740-386 Music Analysis 740-342 Orchestration and Arrangement 1 One of North Asian Music, Music in Rainforest Societies, Music of Java & Bali or North Indian Classical Music 10.0 740-387 Traditional and Contemporary Aboriginal Music or 740-388 Migrant Music in Australia and Subject from Group B or C 10.0 Subjects from another Faculty 20.0 Sub-total points 100.0 Fourth year 740-462 Dissertation 740-402 Ensemble 4-1 740-403 Ensemble 4-2 Two of North Asian Music, Music in Rainforest Societies, Music of Java & Bali or North Indian Classical Music 20.0 Subjects outside the Faculty in Anthropology, Cultural Studies or Linguistics 20.0 740-387 Traditional and Contemporary Aboriginal Music or 740-388 Migrant Music in Australia Sub-total points 100.0 Total points 400.0
Students preparing for careers in music retailing, wholesaling or publishing, concert management, or work in the administrative departments of radio, television, government arts ministries, or music schools should combine their core music studies with subjects in accounting, legal studies, management and systems analysis. A suggested pattern is:
Music administration pattern
Second year 740-236 Practical Study 2 740-264 Music Techniques 2-1 740-229 Music Techniques 2-2 Any two Group A music history subjects 20.0 740-202 Ensemble 2-1 740-203 Ensemble 2-2 306-102 Accounting Concepts 145-130 Communication Skills (Spoken Focus) Vocal students also take 740-270 Language and Diction 2 Sub-total points 100.0 Third year 740-336 Practical Study 3 740-385 Music Techniques 3 740-386 Music Analysis 740-342 Orchestration and Arrangement 1 740-343 Ensemble 3-1 740-344 Ensemble 3-2 732-103 Introduction to Business Law 327-101 Management 740-379 Australian Performers in Context Sub-total points 100.0 Fourth year 740-359 Musicological Research Method 740-302 Nationalism & Identity in Australian Composition 740-402 Ensemble 4-1 740-403 Ensemble 4-2 615-120 Information Systems in Organisations 327-201 Organisational Behaviour 740-480 Conducting Subjects from Groups B or C 40.0 Sub-total points 100.0
The BMus/BA degree provides students with the opportunity to combine their music degree with a general education in the humanities, social sciences and the languages and cultures of other people. Students complete a minimum of 506 points, made up of a minimum of 216 points in subjects in the Faculty of Arts (50 at first-year level, 66 at second-year level, 100 at third-year level) and a minimum of 290 points with a maximum of 310 points from the BMus. The same subject cannot be counted towards both degrees. It is not possible to follow a specialisation from the Bachelor of Music within the BMus/BA.
A 'major' or specialisation in the Faculty of Arts consists of at least five subjects at second and/or third year level in an area of study, including any compulsory subjects prescribed by the relevant department. Students have the option of completing one or two majors or not completing a major if they find this restrictive, instead taking subjects from several areas of study. Areas of study are: American Studies; Ancient Greek; Anthropology; Arabic; Archaeology; Asian Studies; Australian Studies; Chinese; Cinema Studies; Criminology; English; English Language; Environmental Studies; Fine Arts; French; Geography; German; Modern Greek; Hebrew; Hellenic Studies; History; History and Philosophy of Science; Indonesian; Islamic Studies; Italian; Jewish Studies; Korean; Latin; Linguistics; Medieval Studies; Philosophy; Planning and Design; Political Science; Psychology; Russian; Russian Studies; Social Theory; Social Research Methods; Sociology; Spanish; Swedish; Women's Studies. The following subjects are available in first year only, and in some instances at second year level: Communication Skills; English as a Second Language; Vietnamese. For further information, please refer to the separate entries for Music and Arts in this handbook.
The combined course is administered through the Faculty of Music and normally takes five years of full-time study. To be selected into the combined degree, students need to satisfy the entry requirements of both courses.
Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Music
First year 740-136 Practical Study 1 740-141 Music Techniques 1-1 740-129 Music Techniques 1-2 740-140 Aural and Keyboard Studies A 740-111 Aural and Keyboard Studies B 740-102 Ensemble 1-1 740-103 Ensemble 1-2 BA first year level subjects Second year 740-236 Practical Study 2 740-264 Music Techniques 2-1 740-229 Music Techniques 2-2 740-142 Music in Society A 740-110 Music in Society B 740-202 Ensemble 2-1 740-203 Ensemble 2-2 BA first year level subjects Third year 740-385 Music Techniques 3 740-342 Orchestration and Arrangement 1 740-336 Practical Study 3 740-343 Ensemble 3-1 740-344 Ensemble 3-2 Subject from Group A BA second year level subjects Fourth year 740-386 Music Analysis 740-402 Ensemble 4-1 740-403 Ensemble 4-2 Subject from Group A Subjects from Group B or C BA second year level subjects Fifth year BA third year level subjects
Either or both of the BA and the BMus may be taken at honours level. For BA(Hons) the course requires extra points and a sixth year of study; entry to the BA(Hons) component depends on the student's acceptance into a specific honours school or schools at the beginning of the third or fourth year of their BA course (see Faculty of Arts entry).
The BMus degree may be awarded with honours depending on the level of results the student earns in the third and fourth-year subjects of the degree.
The Faculty of Arts offers a Diploma in Modern Languages (Diploma in Modern Languages). Language subjects are taken concurrently with an approved undergraduate degree in a sequence approved by the student's home faculty and the language department. The Diploma will normally add one year to the duration of the student's main degree course. Further information and application forms are available from the Faculty of Arts Office, telephone (03) 9344 5235.
This course is aimed at students coming to the University of Melbourne who have already had musical training and wish to continue with music study while taking a degree course in another discipline.
The course comprises a three year sequence of study in music, which a student adds to their existing degree studies. At the conclusion of the course they should have acquired advanced practical abilities that compare with the end of the second year of the Bachelor of Music course.
The Diploma in Music (Practical) is only available to students who have accepted an offer of a place or are re-enrolling in an undergraduate degree at the University of Melbourne. For further information contact the Degree Programs Office at the Faculty of Music, telephone (03) 9344 5256.
The GradDipMusTherapy offers advanced training in the theory and practice of music therapy for those people with tertiary qualifications in music, music education, or an equivalent field.
The course requires two years full-time or four years part-time study.
The GradDip GIM offers advanced studies in the Guided Imagery and Music method to practising music therapists and health professionals with an appropriate music background. The course requires two years of part-time study.
The Faculty offers a three-semester full-time or three-year part-time MMus degree course. All candidates take a major study in one of Research, Composition or Performance.
Research students may specialise in some branch of musicology, music education or music therapy. A thesis is required.
Composition students present a folio of original compositions, using a variety of resources and containing at least one composition of a substantial and sustained nature, with the possibility of additional work in research and coursework.
Performance students present two public recitals in which major works are performed and provide substantial program notes for each. Students also complete related coursework.
Entry to DMus degree candidature is open to graduates of at least five years standing. Acceptance is subject to the Faculty being satisfied that the candidate has attained appropriate distinction as a composer or scholar of music.
Examination is based on a submission of a body of compositions or scholarly publications which together would constitute a major contribution to music, or attest to a major original contribution to research into the theory, history and aesthetics of music.
The PhD is awarded by the University, not the Faculty. Details are available from the University's School of Graduate Studies.
Employment possibilities for music graduates vary between specialisations but are currently good.
Openings exist in both professional and semi-professional orchestras. Symphony orchestras and opera or ballet orchestras seek competent players and opportunities arise for casual players in choral accompaniment and amateur theatrical productions.
The world of the solo performer is a fickle one and suited only to those with a formidable command of technique, great physical stamina and an appropriate mental constitution. Some opportunities for professional piano accompanists exist.
Qualified music teachers are in demand in both government and private schools to teach general class music and to organise and teach in instrumental music programs.
Appropriately qualified private music teachers have little trouble building a practice, especially those using new technology such as the computer to assist in theory, training and creative music-making.
Composers and music researchers generally have limited opportunities but some find employment at tertiary institutions. Most supplement their income by teaching or acting as critics or journalists for the media.
Music therapy is a relatively new field in which graduates have gained secure employment in working with the mentally and physically handicapped and the aged in hospitals and other institutions.
Graduates contemplating a career in music will find it useful to study the changing scene. In times when funding cuts are beginning to affect many people, it is notable that sales of recordings, music, musical instruments and high quality sound reproduction equipment are booming.
Further information may be obtained from the Degree Programs Manager, Faculty of Music, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3052.
Tel. +61 3 9344 5256/5258
Fax. +61 3 9344 5346
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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Music
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