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Music - Faculty of ArtsOffered by the School of MusicMusic at Monash comprises the areas of composition, music, music performance, and music studies. CompositionThe Monash School of Music - Conservatorium has one of the finest composition programs in Australia in terms of works composed and performed by staff and students. The School also offers a performance subject dedicated to the development and performance of works written by its students. Composition students will have access to a wide range of facilities at various levels of sophistication in computer music, studio recording, and electronic music. They can also be involved with the sonic art group, which is a studio-based ensemble for composition students interested in electronic and computer music. Relevant coursesMusicStudents may choose to complete a postgraduate program in music that is musicology-oriented, ethnomusicology-oriented, composition-oriented, music education-oriented, or performance oriented, or a combination of these.Facilities are available for the supervision of PhD and research masters candidates in most of the main areas of music, including historical and systematic musicology and ethnomusicology, music education, music performance and music composition. The concentration is on European (Western), Asian and Australian music, 19th and 20th-century music, contemporary music, music education, music semiotics, composition and music technology, popular and folk music, organology, dance studies, music-dance relationships, and music of South, East and Southeast Asia and Africa. Relevant course groups
Music performanceWith six regularly performing staff and over thirty studio teaching staff in performance, the School of Music - Conservatorium is involved in presenting sixty to seventy concerts a year by students, staff and outside artists. They include many large-scale choral/orchestral and small-scale solo and chamber music concerts of music from countries in all continents. The concerts are widely advertised as part of the Monash Performing and Visual Arts activities and are presented mainly in the excellent venues of the Monash Arts Precinct (which comprises the Robert Blackwood Hall, Music Auditorium, Alexander Theatre, and Drama Theatre, as well as the Religious Centre) but also in the city of Melbourne and overseas. The School offers many major concerts of choral and orchestral works as well as solo, chamber and small ensemble concerts. The large ensembles in the School and their vibrant public concert seasons include performers from across the faculties of the University and from the external community. They include the New Monash Orchestra, the Monash Sinfonia (String Orchestra), the Monash Wind Symphony, Viva Voce, the Monash Women's Choir, re-sound (a contemporary music group), and the Monash Gamelan Orchestra. There are also several chamber groups. In recent years, the School's choirs and orchestras have toured Japan, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan. Relevant course
Music studiesThe programs in Music Studies are designed for musicians who wish to develop a greater knowledge, understanding and competence in music. In the Masters, students acquire skills in research methods and techniques and develop the capacity for critical reflection and informed assessment in the area of music specialisation. Vocational outcomes include musicology, ethnomusicology and world music, composition, music education and pedagogy, contemporary music and Australian music. Relevant course groups
Contact detailsInquiries: Room 101 Performing Arts Centre, building 68, Clayton campus Telephone +61 3 9905 3231 Email music@arts.monash.edu.au Visit http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/music
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