Bachelor of Pharmacy (Honours) at James Cook University Brisbane

Develop your creative abilities in composition and sound through practical and theoretical work. Explore theory and practice in the field of music production. You’ll focus on historical contexts and the development of advanced technical skills.

Our MA reflects current developments in and beyond the concert hall, including music for film, media and interactive arts. You will:

• compose
• make sound art
• devise music theatre
• use music technologies
• create film music
• evaluate music and sonic art.

The course is for composers, musicians, sound artists, sound and music practitioners from related fields including theatre, and theorists with interests in music and sound.

The Department of Music is a major international centre for the study of contemporary music, contemporary musical thinking and music theatre.

We offer a unique range of inter-related research disciplines. We have expertise in areas from opera and music theatre to composition. This allows you to develop an integrated portfolio of work corresponding to your strengths and interests.

On this practice-led course you’ll study the creative use of music technology using a wide range of specialist software and hardware, preparing you for a broad range of careers in the creative industries.

You’ll choose from areas of study such as electronic music creation and performance, sound design, music for moving image and creative music programming. Traditional music skills are also an important part of the course, and you may also choose to study traditional instrumental music, including performance.

Our vision is to create ‘thinking musicians’, you’ll develop your analytical and interdisciplinary creative thinking and your fundamental transferable skills. You’ll develop a strong portfolio of creative work that will help you in your career, and the skills you need to make professional work for a broad range of media.

Our vision is to create ‘thinking musicians’, so this course will also develop your analytical and interdisciplinary creative thinking and your fundamental transferable skills. You’ll develop a strong portfolio of creative work that will help you in your career, and the skills you need to make professional work for a broad range of media.

On our course you can take performance and composition in each year. Alongside these, you’ll study music across history and within culture. You’ll develop advanced knowledge of music theory and analysis.

You’ll graduate from our course with a BMus (Hons) qualification, which denotes a practical emphasis - we use performing and/or composing as the key ways to increase your knowledge of music and develop your musicianship. You’ll learn about music of the past and the present, in both classical and popular styles.

In your final year, you’ll develop a large-scale individual project; this is a good example of the flexible approach you can take to your learning - it can be a substantial written investigation, or a performance or composition project, with complementary writing.

On our four-year course, you’ll also be able to take a year-long Professional Training placement and gain experience in the music and wider arts industries.