Undergraduate - Area of Study Music

The School of Music at Monash is consistently ranked among the best music schools in Australia and leads the country in internationally recognised ethnomusicology research. The school attracts students and visiting academics from all over the world and has an outstanding track record in winning competitive research funding.

The school offers a wide-ranging undergraduate program and a variety of postgraduate degrees in performance, composition, musicology and ethnomusicology. With modern facilities, unique archival collections, scholarship opportunities and a reputation for supervision excellence, the Monash School of Music is home to a vibrant, nurturing and productive environment.

Disciplines

The School of Music - Conservatorium teaches, researches, and promotes public outreach in four fields of musical endeavour: performance, composition, musicology and enthnomusicology. Students specialise in one or more fields, but gain experience in a unified way in all four areas.

Performance

Students with a strong musical aptitude undertaking this specialisation are expected to acquire an assured technique and an awareness of the history of performance style and practice. Students develop their performance skills as well as interactive musical skills in a variety of ensembles. Throughout the program students are examined on both solo and ensemble work.

Composition

Students undertaking this specialisation can expect to acquire experience and skills in music composition. The program offers supervision of students' compositional projects and encourages work in various media, including traditional, electronic, and contemporary solo and ensemble combinations. The School of Music - Conservatorium organises a number of large and small instrumental and ensemble choral groups and encourages performances of student compositions.

Musicology or ethnomusicology

Students who choose either of these specialisations, or a combination of both, can expect to develop their knowledge and understanding of music to prepare themselves as musicologists and/or ethnomusicologists, studying the music history of various genres, research methods and aspects of systematic musicology such as performance practice, analysis, aesthetics, criticism, music sociology and psychology of music.

In the ethnomusicology stream, students make detailed area studies of selected music cultures of Asia and/or Africa, and may learn to perform in an Indonesian gamelan and in other Asian and African traditions as appropriate for a particular unit for which a student enrols.

Note: prerequisites or prohibitions may apply for individual units - consult the unit entry for details.

Refer to the 'sequence requirements' below for units required in each course.

Chief study units*

• ATS1349 Chief music study I
• ATS1350 Chief music study II
• ATS1899 Music theory and ear training 1
• ATS1900 Music theory and ear training 2
• ATS2901 Music theory and ear training 3
• ATS2902 Music theory and ear training 4
• ATS2808 Chief music study III
• ATS2809 Chief music study IV
• ATS3830 Chief music study V
• ATS3831 Chief music study VI

* Only available to students enrolled in the Bachelor of Music and associated double degrees.

Professional practice units

• ATS2797 Professional practice in music 1
• ATS2798 Professional practice in music 2
• ATS3826 Professional practice in music 3
• ATS3827 Professional practice in music 4

Ensemble studies units

• ATS1347 Group music performance 1
• ATS1348 Group music performance 2
• ATS2800 Group music performance 3
• ATS2801 Group music performance 4

General units

• ATS1343 American music and popular culture
• ATS1344 Gamelan performing arts
• ATS1345 Exploring western music
• ATS1346 Exploring world musics
• ATS1907 Music performance study
• ATS2331 Music overseas study program I
• ATS2332 Music overseas study program II
• ATS2333 Jazz history 1: Readings in history and biography
• ATS2686 Flaring up: Bali and musical revolution
• ATS2687/ATS3687 African music: Musical change, social change and performance
• ATS2799 Audio culture: Developments in new music
• ATS2804 From the erotic to the exotic: music, culture and society in nineteenth-century Europe
• ATS2805 Global popular and roots music
• ATS2807 Composition techniques: Structure, pitch and space
• ATS2900 Music aesthetics and criticism
• ATS2926 Performance studies: Indonesian gamelan
• ATS3331 Music overseas study program I
• ATS3332 Music overseas study program II
• ATS3686 Flaring up: Bali and musical revolution
• ATS3818 Global popular and roots music
• ATS3819 Applied music I
• ATS3820 Applied music II
• ATS3821 Music composition techniques: Chance, sets and computers
• ATS3822 Jazz history 2: Readings in improvisation and musical cross-pollination
• ATS3823 Music of North and South India
• ATS3824 Music in society: Musicians, performances and institutions
• ATS3825 Western art music in the 20th and 21st century
• ATS3828 Music composition techniques: Film and orchestration
• ATS3829 East Asia and its music: Silk road histories and popular contexts
• ATS3899 Jazz composition and arranging 1
• ATS3900 Jazz composition and arranging 2
• ATS3901 Music- Overseas study program
• ATS3926 Performance studies: Indonesian gamelan

Diplomas

• 2327 Diploma in Liberal Arts

Bachelors

Single degrees

• 0821 Bachelor of Music

Double degrees

• 1185 Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Commerce
• 1497 Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Laws
• 3717 Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Education (Primary)
• 2025 Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Education (Secondary)
• 3774 Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Performing Arts
• 3054 Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Music

Degrees with non-performance units only

Only non-performance units can be taken in the following degrees.

Single degrees

• 0002 Bachelor of Arts
• 3920 Bachelor of Arts - at Sunway
• 4073 Bachelor of Arts and Social Sciences
• 1638 Bachelor of Arts as a Participant in the Dean's Scholars Program
• 3914 Bachelor of Arts (Criminal Justice)
• 3907 Bachelor of Arts (English Language)
• 3910 Bachelor of Arts (Global)
• 4077 Bachelor of Arts (International)
• 2396 Bachelor of Arts (Journalism)
• 1366 Bachelor of Arts (Languages)
• 1708 Bachelor of Arts (Professional Communication)
• 1712 Bachelor of Arts (Psychology)
• 1719 Bachelor of Behavioural Science
• 2476 Bachelor of Communication - at Sunway
• 1731 Bachelor of Community Welfare and Counselling
• 4042 Bachelor of Journalism
• 0202 Bachelor of Letters
• 0821 Bachelor of Music
• 1144 Bachelor of Performing Arts
• 1275 Bachelor of Professional Communication
• 4086 Bachelor of Social Science

Double degrees

• 3277 Bachelor of Aerospace Engineering and Bachelor of Arts
• 0550 Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Business (Accounting)
• 0553 Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Business (Banking and Finance)
• 0555 Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Business (Management)
• 0556 Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Business (Marketing)
• 0542 Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Commerce
• 0170 Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Economics
• 1541 Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Education-primary
• 1641 Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Education-secondary
• 0080 Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws
• 3054 Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Music
• 0530 Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science
• 3426 Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Social Work
• 0002 Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Theology
• 3779 Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Visual Arts
• 1807 Bachelor of Arts and Social Sciences and Bachelor of Business and Commerce
• 1806 Bachelor of Arts and Social Sciences and Bachelor of Community Welfare and Counselling
• 4208 Bachelor of Arts and Social Sciences and Bachelor of Education
• 4089 Bachelor of Arts and Social Sciences and Bachelor of Visual and Media Arts
• 4403 Bachelor of Arts (Global) and Bachelor of Commerce
• 3537 Bachelor of Arts (Global) and Bachelor of Science
• 2131 Bachelor of Arts (Journalism) and Bachelor of Science
• 1798 Bachelor of Arts (Psychology) and Bachelor of Community Welfare and Counselling
• 1941 Bachelor of Business and Commerce and Bachelor of Communication
• 4423 Bachelor of Business and Commerce and Bachelor of Professional Communication
• 0116 Bachelor of Engineering and Bachelor of Arts
• 3281 Bachelor of Mechatronics Engineering and Bachelor of Arts
• 1945 Bachelor of Professional Communication and Diploma of Professional Writing