Music (Taught)

Why study Graduate Diploma in Music at Goldsmiths
This Pre-Masters programme is aimed at postgraduates who need a year to develop their musical skills and academic English.

• You'll have the opportunity to familiarise yourself both with ways of working in British academic culture and in the standards required at Masters degree level.

• You can take it as a self-standing Diploma or as an ideal preparation for further postgraduate study. The Graduate Diploma in Music is designed to lead on to a Masters programme in the Department of Music at Goldsmiths.

• You can choose to specialise in an area of music that interests you, whether it be music performance, composition or musicology.

• If you wish to go on to study either at Goldsmiths or elsewhere in Britain you'll be given help and support in finding an appropriate programme.

Half of the programme is made up of English for Academic Purposes modules, concentrating on different areas of language and academic skills development:

Academic Writing and Language Development
Academic Listening and Speaking
Contemporary Theories

The other half of the programme is taught in the Department of Music.

You choose one from the following modules:
Performance: Creative Practice
or
Composition portfolio
or
Research Project

You'll also choose two of the modules listed below:
Acoustic Ecology and Field Recording
Performing South-East Asian Music
Fringe and Underground Musics
Music Practice and the Black Atlantic: Britain’s Celebrity Culture
Creative Orchestration and Arrangement
Introduction to Audiovisual Composition
Improvisation
Advanced Popular Music Studies
Live Electronics
Music and Screen Media
Contemporary Jazz Performance the UK Scene

Please note that due to staff research commitments not all of these modules may be available every year.

Continuous assessment includes regular seminar presentations and researched essays. There will also be written, listening and oral examinations. For those students who choose music performance and composition options, assessments will include a recital and a portfolio of creative work.