Masters
SARC is a facility part of the School of Creative Arts. The School offers three main Masters degree pathways to choose from in Music and in Sonic Arts:
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Ma in Sonic ArtsThe MA in Sonic Arts is based on establishing a foundation in digital audio and offers four specialist routes that culminate in a portfolio or dissertation. The programme is focused on links with research activities at the Sonic Arts Research Centre and provides students with unique opportunities to develop Masters level research in the context of larger research projects... more |
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Ma in CompositionThis modular one-year (full-time) or two-year (part-time) course combines free composition opportunities with the study of modern repertoire and aesthetic issues, composers’ writings and recent works. The emphasis is on training for composition as practice, and there are opportunities to present work to professional performers... more |
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Ma in MusicThe MA in Music programme provides a solid basis for independent research in a number of areas of research excellence in the School: Eighteenth-Century Studies, Opera Studies, Source Studies, Nineteenth or Twentieth-Century Music and Irish Music... more |



