Postgraduate Courses
The School of Music - Conservatorium has a wide range of courses for Postgraduate students. For details about specific courses of study, click on the links to the Arts Postgraduate Handbook below:
- 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 Philisophy
Sample of Recently Completed MA & PHD Research Dessertations in Music
2008
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.”
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
Melita White, MA (Music Composition) (100% research), folio of compositions: “Music Composition as an Expression of Research in Feminist Theory.”
2005
Paul Todd, MA (Music Performance) (clarinet), Major Recital: works by Margaret Sutherland, Paul Moulatlet, and Karlheinz StockhausenResearch Topic: The philosophies of Karlheinz Stockhausen in AUS DEN SIEBEN TAGEN and IN FREUNDSCHAFT : performance as a means of communication.
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.
Karen Heath, MA (Music Performance)(clarinet)Major Recital: works by Karlheinze Stockhausen, Tom Dunstan and Karen HeathResearch Topic: The synthesis of music and dance: performance strategies for selected choreographic music works by Karlheinze Stockhausen
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). The performer's role in interpreting this transcription in relation to the specific Graingerisms used