OUR COURSES:
MMus (Songwriting)
Course Details
This is the world’s first and only Master’s Degree in Songwriting. Offered in both attendance-based and distance learning formats, it is aimed at unpublished songwriters wishing to develop their craft to a professional level, or published songwriters wishing to achieve academic accreditation and continue to improve creatively. The course, which is based at Corsham Court will help you to develop a range of critical, practical, communicative, industrial and research-based skills. During the programme you will learn to:
• Comment critically upon your own and others’ material
• Examine the musicological roots of your craft
• Consider the commercial value of your songs in the marketplace
• Rewrite and collaborate
• Conduct academic research
• Develop technical skills
• Create a professional-standard portfolio of your work
Professional songwriters, music publishers and others involved in the songwriting industry visit regularly to teach, host Q and A sessions and give masterclasses.
Staff teaching on this pathway include Richard Parfitt, Andy West, Davey Ray Moor and Joe Bennett.
