Overview

This course allows a focus on one of four specialties essential to music making in the 21st century. Contemporary Music Practice introduces you to a diverse range of music industry practitioners who will help you produce original music. Composition for Creative Industries focuses on developing your composition skills, including notation-based composition, to prepare you for music beyond the concert hall by learning how to compose collaboratively with performers, arranging music for film, television and online. Digital Music and Media focuses on computer-based and interactive musical creativity. This specialty includes writing  music for online games and creating music for new media and technologies. Musicology is designed for students who want to develop as a musician and to build their experience of current approaches to music, in terms of creating and understanding music and its place in society.

Majors

Areas of study

A program in contemporary music practice, composition for creative industries, digital music and media, or a musicology major. In addition to your primary music studies, you may take a major from Table S – the shared pool of majors offered from areas across the University. Or you may complete an optional minor in community music, composition for creative industries, digital music and media, ethnomusicology, Indigenous music, performance and ensembles, or performance science.

Table S: Accounting; American Studies; Anatomy and Histology; Ancient Greek; Ancient History; Animal Health; Disease and Welfare Animal Production; Anthropology; Applied Medical Science; Arabic Language and Cultures; Archaeology; Art History; Asian Studies; Banking; Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Biology; Business Analytics; Business Information Systems; Business Law; Chinese Studies; Chemistry; Computer Science; Computer Systems; Criminology; Cultural Studies; Data Science; Design; Digital Cultures; Digital Music; Disability and Participation; Diversity Studies (minor); Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Econometrics; Economic Policy; Economics; Education Studies; English; Environmental, Agriculture and Resource Economics; Environmental Studies; European Studies; Film Studies; Finance; Financial Economics; Financial Mathematics and Statistics; Food Science; French and Francophone Studies; Gender Studies; Genetics and Genomics Geography; Geology and Geophysics; Germanic Studies; Health; Hearing, Speech and Communication; Hebrew (Modern); High Performance in Sport; History; History and Philosophy of Science; Immunology and Pathology; Immunology (minor); Indigenous Studies; Indonesian Studies; Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management; Infectious Diseases; Innovation and Entrepreneurship; International and Comparative Literary Studies; International Business; International Relations; Italian Studies; Japanese Studies; Jewish Civilisation, Thought and Culture; Korean Studies; Latin; Linguistics; Management and Leadership Marketing; Marine Science; Mathematics; Medicinal Chemistry; Microbiology; Modern Greek; Music; Neuroscience; Nutrition Science; Pathology (minor); Pharmacology; Philosophy; Physical Activity and Health; Physics; Physiology; Plant Production; Plant Science; Political Economy; Politics; Project Management; Psychological Science; Sanskrit (minor); Social Policy (minor); Socio-legal Studies; Sociology; Software Development; Soil Science and Hydrology; Statistics; Spanish and Latin American Studies; Studies in Religion; Sustainability; Theatre and Performance Studies; Urban Studies; Virology (minor); Visual Arts; Wildlife Conservation (minor); Writing Studies (minor).

Potential Career Outcomes

Career opportunities

Arts administrator, composer, contemporary musician, event producer, festival or venue manager, interactive music designer, music arranger, music journalist, music producer, music researcher, singer/songwriter, sound installation designer.

ATAR & Selection Rank

The ATAR and Selection Rank profile is not available for this course.

Admission Criteria

Please refer to the University of Sydney website for admission criteria information.

Course Seeker

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