Postgraduate Courses
The School of Music - Conservatorium at Monash University has an excellent record for the successful completion of degrees by our research students. We have vacancies in our postgraduate program and are actively seeking enthusiastic and capable new students to fill them. We offer a range of degrees in our four research priority areas:
- Composition
- Ethnomusicology
- Musicology
- Performance
Postgraduate Degrees in Music
For details about specific courses of study, click on the links to the Arts Postgraduate Handbook below:
- Graduate Diploma in Music
- Graduate Diploma in Music Studies
- Postgraduate Diploma in Arts (Research)
- Master of Music (This degree is available to international students)
- Master of Music Studies
- Master of Arts
- Master of Arts by coursework and research
- Master of Arts (Music Performance) by coursework and research
- Master of Arts (Music Composition)
- Doctor of Philisophy
Sample of Recently Completed MA & PHD Research Dessertations in Music
2008
Anthony Pateras, PhD in Music Composition (100% research), folio of compositions: “Exploratory combinations of composition, improvisation and electronics based on relationships between form and timbre.”
2007
Philip Czaplowski, PhD in Music Composition (100% research), folio of compositions: “The use of multiple styles as a compositional approach.”
Robin Fox, PhD in Music Composition (100% research), folio of compositions: “Contingency and space as structural concerns in a folio of interactive electroacoustic compositions.”
Russell Goodwin, PhD in Music Composition (100% research), folio of compositions: “Furthering the understanding of indeterminacy in music composition.”
Jane Hammond, MA (Music Composition) (100% research), folio of compositions: An Exploration of the Possibilities of Generating Music from Text.”
Peter Joseph Myers, PhD in Music Composition (100% research), folio of compositions: “Directed harmonic and melodic motion, pitch structures and compositional determinants: a folio of original compositions and a critical commentary.”
2006
Melita White, MA (Music Composition) (100% research), folio of compositions: “Music Composition as an Expression of Research in Feminist Theory.”
2005
Paul Todd, MA (Music Performance) (clarinet), Major Recital: works by Margaret Sutherland, Paul Moulatlet, and Karlheinz StockhausenResearch Topic: The philosophies of Karlheinz Stockhausen in AUS DEN SIEBEN TAGEN and IN FREUNDSCHAFT : performance as a means of communication.
Louisa Hunter-Bradley, MA (Music Performance)(soprano) Major Recital: works by Handel Research Topic:Handel's Gloria : Steps taken to facilitate an historically-informed performance.
Karen Heath, MA (Music Performance)(clarinet)Major Recital: works by Karlheinze Stockhausen, Tom Dunstan and Karen HeathResearch Topic: The synthesis of music and dance: performance strategies for selected choreographic music works by Karlheinze Stockhausen
Josephine Agostinelli, MA (Music Performance)(piano)Major Recital: works by J.S. Bach/Busoni, R. Strauss/Grainger, Tchaikovsky-Grainger, Gershwin-Grainger, Gareth Farr and Elena Kats-Chernin Research Topic:Tradition and innovation in Percy Grainger's Ramble on Strauss's The Rose-Bearer (1927). The performer's role in interpreting this transcription in relation to the specific Graingerisms used