Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover

Course leading to the degree of Master of Music
Regular course length: 4 semesters

It's possible to study the Master's degree course Music Theory as a part-time course.

The duration of study will be eight semesters in that case.

1. Course content and objectives
   In the main artistic subject, profound stylistic knowledge is acquired through analysis and active compositional activity. Compositions from different eras are analysed from a variety of analytical, methodological and stylistic perspectives.
   In the subject area of listening education/auditory analysis, students will reflect on the methods of listening education in addition to developing their own musical listening skills.
   Courses on the didactics and methodology of the subject area prepare students for a future teaching career.
   In an instrumental elective subject (instrument, singing or conducting), compositions are worked on in a practical instrumental way, taking analytical aspects into account.
   Other (sub-)modules focus on musical poetics (harmony, form theory, metre, counterpoint), music analysis, the complex of instrumentation, arrangement, score and instrument studies, piano practice, history of music theory as well as didactics and methodology of the subject.
   Additional elective courses, such as historical and systematic musicology, music pedagogy, media and music, give the course a professional breadth and diversity and allow students to specialise and develop a profile in the direction of modern professions in which a solid music theory education is useful, if not necessary.
   

 

2. Tuition
   Forms of tuition: individual lessons, lectures, seminars, practical music and media exercises, practical training, supervised teaching activities and work on projects

 

3. Who is the course aimed at?
   The target group are students who are particularly interested in music theory with its history and thought models, in the analysis of music, in its creative and reproductive aspects, such as composition and arrangement, as well as in the teaching of these aspects.
   Admission requirement is an undergraduate degree in a music theory degree programme (usually a Bachelor's degree) or a music-related degree programme, which usually contains music theory components of at least 20 credit points.

 

4. Professional field
   Possible professional fields are:
   - Teaching music theory subjects at music schools, conservatoires, colleges and universities
   - Artistic fields of activity such as composition and orchestration/arrangement
   - Academic work in central areas of the subject (history of music theory, current music theory, analysis, stylistics)
   - Activities in demanding music-related professional fields in which music theory knowledge and skills are part of the basic qualification (broadcasting, music editing and feature pages, music publishers)