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| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 4,157 - ≈ € 11,980 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | York / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | October |
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| Languages: | English | ||
Location of University of York
In 1968, the University of York established an Electronic Music Studio in the Department of Music which has been a highly-regarded composers' resource ever since. It has been the training ground for many of the country's foremost exponents of electroacoustic music, some of whom now direct studios of other institutions. Now, as personal computers have developed to the point where they match the power and speed of mainframe computers of a few years ago, there is an urgent need to train musicians in the new technological advances and to train electronic engineers in current musical thinking. The computer revolution in digital audio has created new possibilities for musical composition and research that were scarcely imaginable a decade ago. The coming-together of complementary disciplines, along with an understanding of acoustics, psychoacoustics, and computation, has been the inspiration behind this course. The learning process, based in the taught units, is enhanced by the bringing together of different fields of human understanding to generate new insights.
The Department in collaboration with the Department of Music runs a MA/MSc programme in Music Technology which:
* provides a grounding in the software and hardware techniques required for the development of modern music synthesis and studio practice.
* includes elements of electro-acoustic music composition and musical analysis.
A main objective of the programme is to encourage active co-operation between graduate students from both engineering and music backgrounds, so that together they may learn about and develop the evolving techniques required for this relatively new discipline.
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Course Structure
The MA/MSc Music Technology course has three major components: core taught courses, Special Interest Groups and an individual research project. These take place in the Autumn term, Spring term and for the remainder of the 12 month course respectively. Core taught courses form the basis of the first term's work, then the students choose to study three from a series of special interest groups (SIGs) in the Spring term.
A SIG consists of around seven taught sessions of 1.5 hours each over three weeks plus individual tutorials, then seminars and tutorials during the second half of term (usually 4 x 2 hour seminars during the second half of term).
Syllabus
TERM 1 (Autumn)
Introductory Research Project Unassessed Unit : Studio Techniques and Technologies (optional) Unit 1 : Signal Preservation Unit 2 : Digital Audio Processing. Unit 3 : Aesthetics. Unit 4 : Human Perception of Sound. Unit 5 : Electronic Musical Instruments. Support Course 1: Programming. Support Course 2: Circuits
TERM 2 (Spring)
All students do;
Unit 6: Research Preparation and they also choose any 3 of the following Units
Unit 7: Composition Unit 8: Sound in Space Unit 9: Studio Techniques Unit 10: Music Technology for Disabled Musicians and Special Needs Education Unit 10 not available in the academic year starting October 2007 Unit 11: Audio Processing Techniques and Environments
TERM 3 (Summer) Project Focus Group Final Project (MA/MSc only)
Projects (MA/MSc)
This project, to be submitted during September, is one proposed by the student and is likely to fall into one or more of the following areas: 1. A musical interfacing project: a piece of hardware designed, built and fully documented by the student. 2. A software package designed for musical purposes, written and implemented by the student with appropriate documentation. 3. A musical composition using any one or more of the applications covered during the course.
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English Language Requirements
The University's absolute minimum English language requirements are: * IELTS: 6.0 (in the 'Academic' test)
* TOEFL: paper-based 550/ computer-based (CBT): 213/ internet-based (iBT): 79
* Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English: A, B, C
* Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English: A
Language Proficiency
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade A (Score: 80) |
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