Bachelor of Music
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Duration:
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3 years |
Location:
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Hobart
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Study Areas
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The Bachelor of Music (BMus) is a 3-year full-time professional training degree that enables you to gain the many skills necessary for success in the music profession. The course is based at the Conservation of Music in Hobart, a dynamic and progressive music-making environment which values and provides intensive one-to-one tuition, small class sizes and personalised attention. Part-time study and mid year enrolment are also available.
Major study areas in either Classical or Contemporary mode include:
- Composition
- Instrumental (orchestral instruments, keyboard, guitar)
- Music Theatre
- Musicology
- Voice
The course aims to provide students with:
- a high level of professional vocational training
- a broadly-based music education
- the necessary communication skills and flexibility to interact with the wider community
- the development of research skills
- skills in new technological developments in music
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Special Requirements
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Minimum University entrance requirements are normally expected. Pre-tertiary TCE Music is desirable but not essential. An AMEB instrumental/vocal level of Grade 6 or 7 is recommended, but not essential, for entry, as is Grade 5 theory.
Anyone possessing other qualifications and experience deemed by the Faculty to provide an adequate preparation for study equivalent to the successful completion of year 12 in an Australian school system may be admitted to the course.
Applicants are required to attend an audition and interview and to undertake a theory and aural test. Overseas/interstate applicants may submit a certified audio or video tape or CD of a recent performance.
Instrumental and vocal applicants should prepare a program comprising three works of contrasting style and period.
Composition applicants should present a folio of at least three compositions, including excellent quality (DAT or CD) recordings of the best performances of their work.
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Further study options
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Honours, Grad Cert, Grad Dip, Masters, PhD
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Career opportunities
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Music graduates are engaged at all levels of the music profession both in Australia and overseas. They enjoy successful careers in an extraordinary range of professional capacities including:
- Arts administrators
- Community music officers
- School teachers
- Producers
- Radio announcers
- Composers
- University lecturers
- Music librarians
- Music and studio teachers
- Solo performers and professional musicians in orchestras and ensembles in Australia and overseas.
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Further Information
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