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Applicant Profile

The Master of Music is aimed at performers and composers who wish to expand their knowledge in various fields of music, as well as those with interests and careers related to music. It is also aimed at academics interested in researching musicology and its methods.

Objectives

General academics.

• To broaden and deepen knowledge and understanding of the aspects of music through research, creation, performance and publication.
• Strengthen academic exchanges, research networks and interdisciplinary links with other units in the University and with the programs and institutions with which agreements have been established at national and international level.
• Provide advanced training in specific emphases, conferring on students a degree with which they can communicate musical knowledge orally or in writing, preparing them for the workforce in the different areas of music.
• Develop high-level international proposals in the research, interpretation and creative fields of music.
• To provide students with the necessary tools to enable them to create lines of artistic research applied to the most relevant areas within contemporary musical culture.

Specific academics.

• Participate in individual and collective interpretive work with a high degree of excellence.
• Continue developing creative skills and improving knowledge of the repertoire, as well as skills for analyzing music in different formats.
• To deepen and update the knowledge of music professionals in the areas of composition and performance, by perfecting the technique inherent to each discipline.
• To provide the country with music professionals who practice their profession with a competitive qualification, both nationally and internationally.
• Build greater mastery of creative work, allowing the candidate to discursively articulate his or her production in theoretical, critical and technical terms.
• Develop critical thinking and listening attitude.
• Build and implement methodologies and materials for activities specific to musical practice.

Investigation:

• Analyze and interpret primary sources based on archival, newspaper and bibliographic research activities, and on knowledge of scientific and technological advances that can be applied in different fields of musical activity.
• Promote and stimulate a culture of scientific rigor and research effort among music professionals, giving special importance to the need to achieve artistic results worthy of publication in appropriate media and to be presented in writing with the quality that corresponds to international scientific and artistic dissemination.

Interpretation and composition.

• Participate in individual and collective interpretive work with a high degree of excellence.
• Continue developing creative skills and improving knowledge of the repertoire, as well as skills for analyzing music in different formats.
• To deepen and update the knowledge of music professionals in the areas of composition and performance, by perfecting the technique inherent to each discipline.
• To provide the country with music professionals who practice their profession with a competitive qualification, both nationally and internationally.
• Build greater mastery of creative work, allowing the candidate to discursively articulate his or her production in theoretical, critical and technical terms.
• Develop critical thinking and listening attitude.

Build and implement methodologies and materials for activities specific to musical practice.

Study Plan

The admissions calendar is semiannual. Semesters run from August to December and from January to May of each year, lasting 16 weeks each – including the individual work week.

Structure and methodology according to credit system:

The Master of Music offers two areas of research-based study (musicology and composition) and one area of in-depth study (instrument).

The Master's degree offers the seminarVisions of research and creation , which serves as an introduction to research and creation methodologies. In this course, students acquire the necessary tools to outline their research or creation project that will be concretized in their degree thesis at the end of their studies.

The different seminars cover a wide range of skills and knowledge both in the specific discipline of study and in multidisciplinary fields. Likewise, the structure of the program offers the student great flexibility in the construction of his or her curriculum. Of the 9 subjects in total (11 for the instrument emphasis), 4 are specific to the study emphasis (7 for the instrument). The other courses are free choice, with topics related or different to music, allowing the interdisciplinary flexibility that characterizes the Faculty's Graduate School.

The program is complemented and strengthened by the invitation of national and international professors and lecturers. In this way, students are in permanent contact with current issues and thoughts in the musical world.

Areas of Research or Emphasis

Musicology:

Research theories.

Applied musicology.

Composition:

Electroacoustic Media.

Mixed Media

Instrumental means.

Instrument:

Piano.

Guitar.

Model Program - Instrument

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Alumni Profile

Thanks to advanced studies in their area of specialization, the graduate of the Master's degree is a musician with a broad and interdisciplinary vision, capable of working professionally as a musicologist, composer or performer. The solid training acquired in the chosen emphasis of the Master's degree provides critical thinking and research skills to undertake doctoral level studies, as well as to perform in various fields such as music publishing, criticism, among others.

Contact Information

Contact: Graduate School Faculty of Arts and Humanities

Email: [e-mail] 

Telephone: [phone] Exts. 4925-2636
Address: Calle 19A No. 1 - 37, block K, second floor