Master of Studies in Music

• 1. Each candidate will be required:

  • (a) to follow for at least three terms a course of study in music;

  • (b) to specialise in musicology, performance or composition;

  • (c) to take a two-part examination (Part 1 and Part 2).

• 2. The elements of the examination will be determined by the candidate’’s chosen specialism.

• 3. Candidates specialising in musicology will be required to submit:

  • Part 1a: an essay or exercise on issues and methods in musicologymusic of 6studies,000 words (or equivalent in notationresponse to a core seminar, visual documentation, or analytical diagrams), two copies of which must be submitted, not later than noon on Tuesday of theWeek tenth week10 of Michaelmas Term, to the Chair of Examiners for the M.St. in Music, c/o Examination Schools, High Street, Oxford , and a pdf of the work must be emailed to the Academic Administrator.

  • Part 1b: an essay ofin 6,000response words,to normallyan onelective a topic of the candidate’s choiceseminar. Two copies of theThe essay must be submitted, not later than noon on Tuesday of Week 10 of Hilary Term to the Chair of Examiners for the M.St. in Music, c/o Examination Schools, High Street, Oxford , and a pdf of the work must be emailed to the Academic Administrator.

  • Part 1c: an essay of 6,000 words, normally in response to an elective seminar. Two copies of the essay must be submitted, not later than noon on Tuesday of Week 7 of Trinity Term to the Chair of Examiners for the M.St. in Music, c/o Examination Schools, High Street, Oxford , and a pdf of the work must be emailed to the Academic Administrator.

  • A portfolio of appropriately assessed language work that is directly relevant to the candidate’’s intended field of research may be substituted for Part 1c1b with the approval of the Masters Convenor which must be sought by noon on Friday of theWeek fourth week4 of Michaelmas Term.

  • Part 1c: an annotated bibliography, explicitly related to the dissertation. The bibliography must be submitted, not later than noon on Tuesday of Week 3 of Trinity Term.

  • Part 2: a dissertation of not more than 13,000 words (this word limit including footnotes but excluding bibliography and appendices) in musicology or ethnomusicology, or an editorial exercise (edition), with prefatory matter, of comparable length. The topic for the dissertation or edition must be submitted for approval to the Masters Course Convenor, Faculty of Music, by noon on Friday of theWeek third week3 of Hilary Term. Two typewritten copies of theThe dissertation or edition must be submitted, not later than noon on the Tuesday of theWeek tenth week10 of Trinity Term, to the Chair of Examiners for the M.St. in Music, c/o Examination Schools, High Street, Oxford , and a pdf of the work must be emailed to the Academic Administrator.

• 4. Candidates specialising in performance will be required to submit:

  • Part 1a: a performancelecture-recital consisting of nota more10-minute thanlecture tenon minutes’a durationresearch topic related to a 20-minute recital, both to be given by the candidate in an examination in Week 0 or Week 1  of Hilary Term.

  • Part 1b: an essay in response to an elective seminar. The essay must be submitted, not later than noon Tuesday of 6,000Week words,10 normallyof Hilary Term.

    Part 1c: an essay on a topic of the candidate’’s choice. Two copies of theThe essay must be submitted, not later than noon on Tuesday of Week 10 of Hilary Term to the Chair of Examiners for the M.St. in Music, c/o Examination Schools, High Street, Oxford , and a pdf of the work must be emailed to the Academic Administrator.

    Part 1c: an essay of 6,000 words, normally in response to an elective seminar. Two copies of the essay must be submitted, not later than noon on Tuesday of Week 73 of Trinity Term to the Chair of Examiners for the M.St. in Music, c/o Examination Schools, High Street, Oxford , and a pdf of the work must be emailed to the Academic Administrator.

  • Part 2: a recital of not more than thirtyforty-five minutes’’ duration, vocal or instrumental, of at least two contrasted pieces, to be performed not later than theWeek tenth week10 of Trinity Term.; Twoand possiblea programmesprogramme must be submitted for approval to the Masters Course Convenor, Facultynote of Musicno more than 1,200 by noon on Friday of third week of Hilary Term. Candidates will be informed of the examiners’ choice of programme by Friday of eighth week in the same termwords.

• 5. Candidates specialising in composition will be required to submit:

  • Part 1a: a musical composition of not more than eight minutes produced in response to techniques and to ideas presented in composition seminars, two copies of which must be submitted, not later than noon on Tuesday of theWeek tenth week10 of Michaelmas Term, to the Chair of Examiners for the M.St. in Music, c/o Examination Schools, High Street, Oxford.

  • Part 1b: EITHER an essay of 6,000 words, normallyin onresponse to a topiccore ofor thean candidate’selective choicemusicology seminar. Two copies of theThe essay must be submitted, not later than noon on Tuesday of Week 10 of Hilary Term to the Chair of Examiners for the M.St. in Music, c/o Examination Schools, High Street, Oxford , and a pdf of the work must be emailed to the Academic Administrator.

    Part 1c:   in consultation with the student’s composition supervisor: EITHER: an essay of 6,000 words in response to an elective seminar

  • OR an 8 minutea composition in response to ideas presented in the Hilary Term composition seminars, to be submitted by noon on the Tuesday of 10th week of Hilary Term. 

  • Part Two1c: copiesan essay that is explicitly related to the composition portfolio and serves to situate the candidate’s ideas in relation to the field of contemporary music and other fields/domains of the workcandidate’s mustchoosing, to be submitted, not later than noon on Tuesday of Week 73 of Trinity Term to the Chair of Examiners for the M.St. in Music, c/o Examination Schools, High Street, Oxford.

    Part 2: a musical composition or portfolio of compositions, of not more than twenty-five minutes’ duration in total, two copies of which must be submitted, not later than noon on Tuesday of Week 10 of Trinity Term, to the Chair of Examiners for the M.St. in Music, c/o Examination Schools, High Street, Oxford.

• 6.   Criteria forAll passingsubmissions must be formatted and submitted as specified in the degree, andhandbook for the awardcourse. The assessments must be submitted by uploading it to the University approved online assessment platform; no concomitant copy submission may be submitted, for any purpose. Electronic submissions must be received by the deadline; technical problems external to the online assessment platform will not be accepted as grounds for excusing lateness. Written work shall be submitted as word-processed files converted to PDF using the course coversheet as first page of athe Distinctionwork, arebearing set out inon the Examinationfront Conventionsthe candidate's examination number but neither their name nor the name of their college.

   Candidates must themselves retain a copy of each piece of work. 

• 7. A candidate who fails the examination will be permitted to retake it on one further occasion only, not later than one year after the initial attempt. Such a candidate whose work has been of satisfactory standard in one or more elements examined will be required to resubmit for examination the element(s) which fell below the passmark when originally examined.

Oxford 1+1 MBA programme

Candidates registered on the Oxford 1+1 MBA programme will follow an additional two or three month bridging programme at the end of their third term of the combined programme.

Each candidate will be appointed an academic advisor from the Saïd Business School to plan an individual course of study which will include as a minimum, the following three compulsory elements:

• • (i) Normally two meetings during the bridging programme with the senior advisor appointed by the Saïd Business School at the start of the Oxford 1+1 MBA programme.

  • (ii) A formatively assessed Integrative Development Plan of up to 3,000 words. Candidates would be required to critically reflect on their learning from the Masters programme and relate this both to their forthcoming MBA programme as well as to their career goals. The meetings with the advisor will frame the design, delivery and discussion of the plan.

  • (iii) Attendance of the MBA pre-course as described in the joining instructions for the MBA class, unless granted exemption by the MBA Committee on the grounds of prior formal study or work experience.