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Music Postgraduate Courses

The School of Music – Conservatorium has an excellent record for the successful completion of degrees by our research students. We have vacancies in our postgraduate program and are actively seeking enthusiastic and capable new students to fill them. We offer a range of degrees in our four research priority areas:

• Composition
• Ethnomusicology and Musicology
• Performance

If you have a query about postgraduate study in music, please direct your initial enquiries to Dr Made Hood

Postgraduate Degrees in Music

For details about specific courses of study, follow the links below to the Monash Postgraduate Handbook:

• Graduate Diploma in Music
• Graduate Diploma in Music Studies
• Postgraduate Diploma in Arts (Research)
• Master of Music (This degree is available to international students)
• Master of Music Studies
• Master of Arts
• Master of Arts by coursework and research
• Master of Arts (Music Performance) by coursework and research
• Master of Arts (Music Composition)
• Doctor of Philosophy

Recently Completed Higher Degrees

2009

• Annette Bowie, PhD, ‘Syncretic Korean and Western Elements in Works of Selected Korean and Korean Expatriate Composers 1975-2004’

2008

• Kenji Fujimura, PhD, ‘Researching Performance: Translations into Editions and Performances of the Forgotten Piano Works of William Hurlstone (1876-1906)’
• Andrew Mathers, PhD, ‘How Theories of Expressive Movement and Non-Verbal Communication can Enhance Expressive Conducting at all Levels of Entering Behaviour’
• Anthony Pateras, PhD in Music Composition (100% research), folio of compositions: 'Exploratory combinations of composition, improvisation and electronics-based on relationships between form and timbre.'

2007

• Philip Czaplowski, PhD in Music Composition (100% research), folio of compositions: 'The use of multiple styles as a compositional approach.'
• Robin Fox, PhD in Music Composition (100% research), folio of compositions: 'Contingency and space as structural concerns in a folio of interactive electroacoustic compositions.'
• Russell Goodwin, PhD in Music Composition (100% research), folio of compositions: 'Furthering the understanding of indeterminacy in music composition.'
• Jane Hammond, MA (Music Composition) (100% research), folio of compositions: 'An Exploration of the Possibilities of Generating Music from Text.'
• Stephanie Helm, MA ‘Gamelan in Japan: Expressions of Japaneseness in Pedagogical Infrastructure and Practice’
• Peter Joseph Myers, PhD in Music Composition (100% research), folio of compositions: 'Directed harmonic and melodic motion, pitch structures and compositional determinants: a folio of original compositions and a critical commentary.'

2006

• Iwan Dzulvan Amir, ‘Sing, Adapt, Persevere: Dynamics of Traditional Vocal Performances in the Islamic Region of Aceh from the Late 19th to the Early 21st Century’
• Mark Dale, PhD, ‘The Ponce-Sergova Collaboration: Creating the Modern Guitar Repertory’
• Vicki-Ann Ware, PhD, ‘Stylistic and Cultural Transformations in Bangkok Fusion Music from 1850 to the Present Day, Leading to the Development of Dontri Thai Prayuk’
• Melita White, MA (Music Composition) (100% research), folio of compositions: 'Music Composition as an Expression of Research in Feminist Theory.'

2005

• Josephine Agostinelli, MA (Music Performance, piano) Major Recital: works by J.S. Bach/Busoni, R. Strauss/Grainger, Tchaikovsky-Grainger, Gershwin-Grainger, Gareth Farr and Elena Kats-Chernin. Research Topic:Tradition and innovation in Percy Grainger's Ramble on Strauss's The Rose-Bearer (1927).
• Karen Heath, MA (Music Performance, clarinet) Major Recital: works by Karlheinze Stockhausen, Tom Dunstan and Karen Heath. Research Topic: The synthesis of music and dance: performance strategies for selected choreographic music works by Karlheinze Stockhausen
• Louisa Hunter-Bradley, MA (Music Performance, soprano) Major Recital: works by Handel. Research Topic:Handel's Gloria : Steps taken to facilitate an historically-informed performance.
• Paul Todd, MA (Music Performance, clarinet) Major Recital: works by Margaret Sutherland, Paul Moulatlet, and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Research Topic: The philosophies of Karlheinz Stockhausen in AUS DEN SIEBEN TAGEN and IN FREUNDSCHAFT : performance as a means of communication.

2004

• Ahmad Naser Sarmast, MA, ‘A Survey of the History of Music in Afghanistan from Ancient times to 2000AD with Special Reference to Art Music from c.1000AD’
• Paul Todd, MA (Music Performance), 'The Philosophies ofKarlheinz Stockhausen in AUS DEN SIEBEN TAGEN and IN FREUNDSCHAFT: Performance as a means of communication.'
• Nino Tsitsishvili, PhD (Musicology), 'National Unity and gender difference in Georgian traditional song-culture: ideologies and practices.'