Uni of Canterbury School of Music
Graduate Music Degrees
Contact: Susan Wallis
+64 3 364 2183
Private Bag 4800, Christchurch
music@canterbury.ac.nz
www.music.canterbury.ac.nz
The School of Music offers a comprehensive range of degree courses at the graduate and postgraduate levels in performance, composition, digital music, ethno-musicology, music history and research, musicianship and music education.
It operates from four sites on campus. Apart from the original building, there is a gamelan house in Kirkwood Avenue, most performance teaching is done in a Canterbury villa in Montana Avenue, and a state of the art music computer suite (15 units) is operating from the Maths and Computer Science building. In addition, most of the jazz and jazz related courses are taught at the School of Jazz, Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology, Cnr High and Madras Streets.
BA or Mus B degree?
The Mus B is our specialist music degree, allowing access to almost all our courses, with the chance to specialise in areas such as composition and performance as well as music history, education, ethnomusicology, jazz and musicianship. If you are interested in complementing your studies with a few music courses then the BA is most appropriate. If you want to study music more intensively, and especially if you want to study performance or composition, you should be looking at the Mus B. You will still be able to take a number of courses in other areas.
We group our music courses under six broad headings:
Music Theory and Musicianship
Music Education
Jazz
Music History, Culture and Research
Composition, Digital Music, Sonic Art and Recording Technology
Performance
With the growth in the music and arts industry, there are an increasing range of careers which are available to music graduates. These include: professional performance; composing and arranging perhaps in relation to video, film and advertising; private, itinerant and school music teaching; radio and journalism.
Facilities include:
* Specialised audio/video recording equipment
* An Apple Mac music computer laboratory with 15 units located in the Maths and Computer Science building. In addition the University’s IT Department has many computers with non-music programmes such as word-processing available for students.
* Three fully digitised electroacoustic sound laboratories
* A number of fine keyboard instruments including Fazioli, Steinway, Bösendorfer, Grotrian Steinweg and Yamaha grand pianos, numerous upright pianos, as well as period instruments such as harpsichord, clavichord, baroque flute, recorders.
* Pipe organ
* A 40-piece Balinese Gong Kebyar gamelan comprising gongs, metallophones, flutes, and drums. Other musical instruments include Gender Wayang, Kul kul and tingklik, Japanese koto, 2 Indian sitars, a set of Chinese flutes, and Indonesian Angklung.
* An extensive music collection with audio and video facilties in the Central Library and a Resource Centre in the School of Music building with a substantial collection of reference materials, scores and sound recordings, together with listening facilities.
For further information visit us at www.music.canterbury.ac.nz
