Com­po­si­ti­on Mas­ter

The mas­ter's de­gree pro­gram in com­po­si­ti­on builds on a first pro­fes­sio­nal de­gree and ser­ves to de­epen and ex­pand the skills ac­qui­red the­re and to in­tro­du­ce stu­dents to po­ten­ti­al pro­fes­sio­nal fields. It aims at the fur­ther de­ve­lop­ment and spe­ci­fi­ca­ti­on of the per­so­nal ar­tis­tic pro­fi­le and en­ab­les a spe­ci­fic ex­pan­si­on of the ho­ri­zon of ex­pe­ri­ence. It de­ve­lops in stu­dents a com­pre­hen­si­ve prac­ti­cal com­pe­tence to deal with ar­tis­tic is­su­es, es­pe­ci­al­ly in in­ter­di­sci­pli­na­ry con­texts.

The fo­cus is on the stu­den­t's own pro­ject

At the cen­ter of the cour­se is the im­ple­men­ta­ti­on and rea­li­za­ti­on of one's own ex­ten­si­ve com­po­si­ti­on pro­ject (e.g. mu­sic thea­ter, en­sem­ble or or­ches­tral com­po­si­ti­on, spa­ti­al sound pro­ject, in­ter­di­sci­pli­na­ry pro­ject, per­for­ma­ti­ve pro­ject, elec­tro­nic or live-elec­tro­nic com­po­si­ti­on, etc). The con­tent and for­mat of this pro­ject will be coor­di­na­ted with the pro­gram di­rec­tor on the ba­sis of an ex­po­sé to be sub­mit­ted with the ap­ti­tu­de test. In the cour­se of the stu­dy pro­gram, all as­pec­ts of the pro­ject are worked out and de­ve­lo­ped in the form of re­se­arch, dis­cur­si­ve re­flec­tion and prac­ti­cal tes­ting. At the end of the cour­se, the mas­ter's the­sis is the im­ple­men­ta­ti­on of the com­po­si­ti­on pro­ject and its rea­li­za­ti­on in a pu­blic pre­sen­ta­ti­on/per­for­mance and its writ­ten re­flec­tion.

The con­cep­ti­on of the stu­dy pro­gram al­lows for an ad­ap­tati­on of the con­tents to the ne­ces­si­ties and re­qui­re­ments of the re­spec­tive pro­ject and thus to the in­di­vi­du­al needs of the stu­dent. This type of stu­dy de­mands a high de­gree of per­so­nal re­spon­si­bi­li­ty and in­de­pen­dence from the stu­dent. Suc­cess­ful com­ple­ti­on of the pro­gram qua­li­fies the stu­dent for the pro­fes­sio­nal fields of free and ap­p­lied com­po­si­ti­on in per­for­ma­ti­ve con­texts (in­ter­di­sci­pli­na­ry, in­stru­men­tal, tech­no­lo­gi­cal, etc.).

Ad­mis­si­on to the mas­ter's de­gree pro­gram re­qui­res a com­ple­ted uni­ver­si­ty de­gree at a uni­ver­si­ty of mu­sic or a com­pa­ra­ble uni­ver­si­ty in Ger­ma­ny or ab­road. This does not ne­cessa­ri­ly have to be in com­po­si­ti­on; de­grees in cour­ses such as con­duc­ting, mu­sic theo­ry, ar­tis­tic in­stru­men­tal play­ing, school mu­sic are also pos­si­ble.

For ap­p­li­ca­ti­ons from ab­road, suf­fi­ci­ent know­ledge of the Ger­man lan­guage is re­qui­red for ad­mis­si­on to the pro­gram. Al­ter­na­tively, an ap­p­li­ca­ti­on is also pos­si­ble with suf­fi­ci­ent know­ledge of the Eng­lish lan­guage. Ad­mis­si­on to the mas­ter's pro­gram in com­po­si­ti­on re­qui­res suc­cess­ful com­ple­ti­on of an ap­ti­tu­de test.

Ad­mis­si­on to the mas­ter's pro­gram in com­po­si­ti­on re­qui­res suc­cess­ful com­ple­ti­on of an ap­ti­tu­de test.

The fol­lo­wing must be sub­mit­ted with the ap­p­li­ca­ti­on:

• at least three scores of own com­po­si­ti­ons in dif­fe­rent in­stru­men­ta­ti­ons.
• an ex­po­sé on the plan­ned ar­tis­tic pro­ject in the con­text of the mas­ter's the­sis.

In ad­di­ti­on to a de­scrip­ti­on of the pro­ject idea and the un­der­ly­ing ar­tis­tic ori­en­ta­ti­on, the ex­po­sé should also in­clu­de a pro­ject out­line for im­ple­men­ta­ti­on (in­clu­ding re­qui­red re­sour­ces, pos­si­ble coope­ra­ti­on part­ners, etc.).

Af­ter re­viewing the scores and the ex­po­sé, the jury of ex­perts will de­ci­de on the in­vi­ta­ti­on to the qua­li­fy­ing ex­ami­na­ti­on.

The qua­li­fy­ing ex­ami­na­ti­on con­sists of a 30-mi­nu­te col­lo­qui­um.

In an in­ter­view, ques­ti­ons re­gar­ding mo­ti­va­ti­on, pre­vious trai­ning, de­ve­lop­ment per­spec­tives and mu­si­cal ar­tis­tic con­tent are dis­cus­sed. In par­ti­cu­lar:

• Ques­ti­ons about the sub­mit­ted com­po­si­ti­ons
• Ques­ti­ons about the pro­ject plan­ned as part of the mas­ter's the­sis

The Stu­dy and Ex­ami­na­ti­on Re­gu­la­ti­ons (SPO) set out the frame­work con­di­ti­ons and re­gu­la­ti­ons for your stu­dies. They ap­p­ly tog­e­ther with the Ge­ne­ral Re­gu­la­ti­ons (for Ba­che­lor's and Mas­ter's de­gree pro­gram­mes) or the SPoL (for tea­cher trai­ning de­gree pro­gram­mes). All ver­si­ons of the SPO for your de­gree pro­gram­me (in­clu­ding ear­lier ver­si­ons for stu­dents of pre­vious aca­de­mic ye­ars) can be found at Ex­ami­na­ti­ons.