Master's Degree in "Music Arts". Pathways: a) Classical Music: Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Composition, b) Music Education, c) Music Theory and Music Creation, d) Greek Popular Music Culture - Musical Performance and Composition. Department of Music Science and Art. Faculty of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts. University of Macedonia.

Description

KNOWLEDGE:

- KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF REPERTOIRE AND MUSIC MATERIAL: Through independent and thorough research and study, they have acquired an extensive knowledge of the repertoire of their specialty. In addition, they apply their knowledge around the common elements and organisational structures of music in order to express their personal artistic ideas.
- KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE FRAMEWORK: They have extended the knowledge of their framework and have developed it independently in segments of their specialty. Based on the knowledge of the musical style and the critical understanding of the relevant implementation practices, they are capable of cultivating, presenting, and demonstrating programmes that are bound together and match a wider framework of different performance conditions. In addition, they have a thorough understanding of the relation between the theoretical and practical studies and a sense of how to use this knowledge in order to reinforce their own artistic development. Finally, they have thorough knowledge of the musical profession.
- IMPROVISATION SKILLS: They have acquired thorough knowledge of improvisation schemes and procedures, which have been properly internalised in order to be freely applied over a variety of situations.
- PEDAGOGICAL SKILLS: They acquire basic pedagogic training, in any of the three cycles and the students become familiarised with the basic principles and practices of pedagogics, specifically with anything related to music education.

SKILLS:

- SKILLS IN ARTISTIC EXPRESSION: They become complete personalities, having developed at a high professional level their ability to create, perceive and express their own artistic ideas.
- REPERTOIRE SKILLS: They have built on the experience of their representative repertoire, either through expanding it or by delving into a specialised field of their specialisation.
- SKILLS FOR ENSEMBLES: If the students have participated in ensemble activities during their 2nd cycle of studies, they have undertaken leading roles in this procedure.
- SKILLS FOR PRACTICING AND TESTING: They have ensured that each area of weakness has been dealt with. Through independent study, they have continued the improvement of these skills, with the purpose of creating, implementing, and expressing their personal artistic ideas.
- PHRASAL (VERBAL) SKILLS: They are capable of demonstrating their verbal skills in larger written works or announcements.
- COMPETENCES FOR PERFORMING TO AN AUDIENCE: They are capable of undertaking the responsibility for combining the framework with the audience and the music material, promoting their musical ideas with confidence to a wide range of performance conditions.
- IMPROVISATION SKILLS: They have acquired a high level of improvisation skills.
- PEDAGOGICAL SKILLS: They acquire basic pedagogical training and can teach their main subject of studies to students of various levels.

GENERAL SKILLS:

- INDEPENDENCE: They have become fully independent with regard to learning, capable of undertaking work in an organised manner, which can be extensive and complicated, in new or unknown fields, based on limited information.
- PSYCHOLOGICAL UNDERSTANDING: They have developed confidence and experience in the use of their psychologic understanding in various conditions.
- CRITICAL AWARENESS: They have fully internalized their critical awareness.
- COMMUNICATION SKILLS: They have acquired confidence and experience in their communication and social skills, including the competences of working with others in common projects or activities, showing leadership skills, collaboration, negotiating and organizing competence, becoming integrated with others in a wide framework of artistic situations, and present complex project at an approachable form.

Further Information

The purpose of PSP "Music Arts" is the ensuring of scientific proficiency and artistic integration for students, the specialisation and cultivation of a high level of skills and knowledge over the cognitive domains of the music art treated in the Department, the advancement of research, as well as the promotion of the richness of Greek music creation over time.
1. Specifically, and in relation to the directions of the Postgraduate Studies Programme, the basic objectives of the PSP are the following:
i) Quality cultivation and advancement of musical interpretation and performance of European music (instrumental / vocal), with focus and priority on the instruments of the symphonic orchestra.
ii) Quality studying in the scientific / research and applied field of music didactics.
iii) Delving into the Theory of Music, not as a separate scientific field, but based on its dialogic relation with the relevant scientific fields that investigate Musical Creation in its wider conceptual framework.
iv) Quality cultivation and advancement of the musical practice - creation and research through practice in the field of Greek traditional (folk) music and Greek popular music culture, along with the promotion of the richness and of the achievements of Greek music with a timeless perspective.

Relation To Employment

Holders of qualifications that belong to this type may work either as self-employed or in positions of responsibility in companies and organizations in the private or in the public sector.

Transitions

Access to this type of qualification have those who hold a Bachelor Degree (level 6). The selection of graduate students is mainly based on the following criteria: the overall grade of the Bachelor Degree, the grades in undergraduate courses that are relevant with the subjects of the Master’s program, the performance in thesis, where is foreseen at the undergraduate level and any research activity of the candidate. The detailed application of the above mentioned criteria, the definition of additional criteria or the conducting of examinations and interviews, the results of which are taken into account in the selection, are determined by decision of the relevant Department.
Holders of such qualifications gain access to study programmes at the same level or at level 8.

Ways To Aquire

Qualifications of this type are acquired via formal education.