University of York
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Degree
| Music | York Music graduates are creative, critical, independent thinkers. Our degree programme develops these qualities through a modular teaching system covering all forms of musical activity: performance, composing, analysis, musicology and music technology are all valued. Both flexible and challenging, we deliver a balanced musical education and develop key skills, providing you with opportunities to specialise and pursue your own choices of study under expert guidance. |
| Music Technology Systems | Our MEng course will consolidate your knowledge of fundamental principles and introduce you to more advanced concepts. You’ll experience a large team software engineering multimedia project, as well as managing a substantial individual project, allowing you to develop the knowledge and skills required to become a leader in the industry. With an increased choice of advanced option modules, you’ll have the opportunity to work with our latest innovative technology and engage with world-class researchers from the AudioLab. |
| Music Technology Systems | The BEng is a fully-accredited engineering course which combines professional electronics with audio and music technology, and draws on the expertise of researchers in the University of York AudioLab. |
| Music Technology Systems (with a year in industry) | With access to the latest computer design labs, multi-speaker surround sound systems, multimedia studios and an anechoic chamber you’ll be able to explore synthesiser technology, MIDI, audio recording, sampling and digital audio signal processing. You’ll not just learn how this technology is applied in making and recording music, but also use your engineering expertise to design and build the next generation of audio technology. |
| Music Technology Systems (with a Foundation Year) | If you’re returning to education, or didn’t study Maths at A level, our foundation year will give you the maths and physics knowledge you need to progress on to our BEng Music Technology Systems course. |
| Electronic Engineering with Music Technology Systems | Our MEng course will consolidate your knowledge of fundamental principles and introduce you to more advanced concepts. You’ll experience a large team software engineering multimedia project, as well as managing a substantial individual project, allowing you to develop the knowledge and skills required to become a leader in the industry. With an increased choice of advanced option modules, you’ll have the opportunity to work with our latest innovative technology and engage with world-class researchers from the AudioLab. |
| Electronic Engineering with Music Technology Systems (with a year in industry) | |
| Graduate | |
| Music | he Postgraduate Diploma is a year-long programme of study. You will complete three projects, centering around your chosen pathway and your particular musical interests, with class teaching and authoritative guidance from academics and professional musicians. Typically there are around six students working with a particular supervisor on a pathway, and during the year you will concentrate on your own specialist projects. There are no major pieces of work thrust upon you that do not respect the independent nature of your pursuits. Instead, you produce Guided Submissions for the first two terms and an Independent Submission during the summer term and summer vacation. |
| Music Production | Whether you are an electronic/computer-based composer or an early music specialist who wants to make the very best recordings, this course will provide you with the intellectual and practical skills to realise your goals. |
| Music Production | PG Diploma |
| Music | The Postgraduate Certificate is a half-year programme of study. You will complete two projects, centering around your chosen pathway and your particular musical interests, with class teaching and authoritative guidance from academics and professional musicians. Typically there are around six students working with a particular supervisor on a pathway, and during the year you will concentrate on your own specialist projects. There are no major pieces of work thrust upon you that do not respect the independent nature of your pursuits: instead, you produce Guided Submissions. |
| Music Education: Instrumental and Vocal Teaching | You’ll explore practical and theoretical concepts of music education, as well as aspects of psychology, music psychology and health. By drawing on your own experiences, you’ll develop your understanding of instrumental pedagogy and develop strategies for reflective practice, helping you to enhance your capabilities and confidence as a teacher. |
| Music Education: Instrumental and Vocal Teaching | Our PGDip in Music Education is a practical course for musicians interested in developing their instrumental and vocal teaching skills. |
| Audio and Music Technology | Combine a unique mixture of science, technology and creativity to develop innovative audio applications for music making, recording, analysis and reproduction. |
| Fusion Energy | Research into fusion is entering an exciting new era with several large facilities aiming to achieve the crucial milestone of net energy gain. |
| MA in Music (by research) | The MA in Music by Research offers postgraduate opportunities to individuals who prefer to study independently rather than through classroom teaching, working under the close supervision of an expert in their field. This is a research degree, not a taught course programme, and applicants will need to have a clearly-focussed research proposal in their given area in order to be considered for admission to the research MA |
| MA in Music Technology (by research) | The Masters by Research course in Music Technology is aimed at meeting the needs of research-focused graduates with experience in music technology or audio engineering. This stream is specifically focused on developing, assessing and applying technology to current problems and questions in music practice and analysis. |
| Music Technology (by research) | The MSc by Research is a one year full-time programme (two years part-time) based on a research project which may be in any area of staff expertise. As a member of one of the Department’s research groups you will be supervised on a one-to-one basis by a member of academic staff. Progress of all research students is continually guided by a supervisor and a thesis advisory panel. The award of the degree is made following the submission and successful examination of a thesis (which is usually around 15,000 to 20,000 words). |
| Music Technology | The MPhil and PhD degree programmes enable students to study a chosen area of research with leading researchers in the Department. These degrees are awarded in either Electronic Engineering or Music Technology following the successful submission of a thesis and subsequent oral examination. The PhD degree is a three year full-time or six year part-time programme. The MPhil is a two-year full-time (or four-year part-time) research programme that is undertaken and examined in a similar way to the PhD, but of a smaller body of work. |
| Plasma Science & Fusion Energy | |
| MPhil/PhD by Thesis | Research topics for MPhil/PhD by thesis may be proposed in any area closely related to the research interests of current members of staff (see staff profiles). Students work independently with regular supervision from their research supervisor, and attend research seminars (normally four each term). |
| MPhil/PhD by Composition | Composers work independently, under the guidance of an academic supervisor. There are currently seven members of staff at York supervising composition. There are weekly CMRC seminars (Tuesdays 4.00-5.30pm) throughout the academic year. Some of these are presented by visiting composers, others by staff or postgraduate students of the department. |
| MPhil/PhD by Performance | The PhD by Performance offers performers an opportunity to develop original, innovative projects in an area of musical practice, in an academic environment in which creativity and scholarship are equally balanced and in which work can be carried out without the constraints often encountered in the professional world. |
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