Máster en Investigación Musical

Program Overview

The Máster en Investigación Musical is an online master's degree program offered by the Universidad Europea de Madrid. It focuses on the research of music in the present day and its environment, aiming to train highly qualified professionals in the field of musical research. The program is taught by experienced professors and offers a variety of career paths in teaching, research, communication, and management. It is officially certified by ANECA and eligible for points in teaching positions in the Public Administration.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

The Máster en Investigación Musical is an online master's degree program offered by the Universidad Europea de Madrid. It is a pioneer in the market, focusing on the research of music in the present day and its environment. The program aims to train highly qualified professionals in the field of musical research.

Objectives:

• Learn to design musical research projects that utilize all possible means in a current time characterized by constant innovations.
• Be able to defend arguments regarding the functionalities of music in the present day of creative, aesthetic, and research proposals.
• Evaluate the characteristics of sound innovations to renew the field of music, its creation, its practice, and its consumption.
• Interpret the uses of innovative tools and analyze the function of the digital and multimedia environment in music creation.
• Learn to examine and analyze technology applied to new spaces of musical development, researching any physical or virtual possibility of musical expression.
• Experiment creatively with the new possibilities of instrumental languages.
• Develop a study of stylistic proposals in music and illustrate the commercial development and its influence on them.
• Learn to generate a space to research forms of musical communication and dissemination on digital platforms.

Outline:

Structure:

• The program is structured into two semesters.
• The program is delivered 100% online with live virtual classes.
• The program is taught in Spanish.
• The program consists of 60 ECTS credits.
• The program is delivered over 12 months.

Course Schedule:

• First Semester:
• Module 1 - Methodology for the Research of Music (6 ECTS):
• Sources and proposals necessary for research.
• Research methodology.
• Research in cultural studies.
• New avenues and forms of research.
• Foundation of research in the Arts.
• Research of music as an artistic form.
• Module 2 - New Languages of Contemporary Composition (6 ECTS):
• Latest trends in contemporary music.
• Research in new aesthetic bets in music.
• New searches in the creation of musical and sound spaces.
• Instrumental practice as a source of innovation.
• New forms of music writing.
• Module 3 - Evolution of Current Music Outside of Pop (6 ECTS):
• Foundation of research in current music outside of Pop.
• Current music as a bet between the artistic and the commercial.
• Jazz as contemporary artistic music.
• Innovative proposals in current flamenco.
• Root music and its influence on current musical developments.
• New genres and styles in current music.
• Module 4 - Development of Musical Interactions with the Commercial Environment (6 ECTS):
• Contemporary popular music as a space for research.
• The mainstream and its repercussions on artistic production.
• The innovative bet in commercial music.
• Commercial phenomena as a means of artistic expression.
• The digital world and its influence on music creation.
• Innovation and authenticity in contemporary popular music.
• Module 5 - Application of Technology to Music (6 ECTS):
• Technology as the foundation of musical creation and performance.
• Technological tools, their uses, and their needs.
• The process of the recorded signal and its possibilities of conversion into a technological instrument.
• Communication between tools in a creative environment.
• Innovative approaches in the uses of technologies in music.
• Forms of collaboration in a technological network.
• General overview of the communication of music with other artistic media.
• Interactions between music and audiovisual media.
• Music as an aesthetic substance in visual and sound arts.
• Music as a sound substance in listening media.
• Music and spaces.
• Music and artistic proposals in scientific environments.
• Module 7 - New Musical Stage Approaches (6 ECTS):
• Live music and its current approaches.
• New forms of musical performance before the public.
• The concert situation and its current possibilities.
• Music on stage and its creative possibilities in the present day.
• New forms of opera and musical shows.
• Technology as a creator of scenic spaces for musical development.
• Module 8 - Industry, Development, and Communication in the Music Environment (6 ECTS):
• The music industry as a space for research.
• Musical creativity in the times of mass dissemination.
• The digital revolution in the definition of a new industry.
• The phonogram as a project and its possibilities in new environments.
• The limits and alternatives to the current music industry.
• Forms of music distribution in the present day.
• Module 9 - Master's Thesis (12 ECTS):
• Carrying out an original research work that integrates all the knowledge, skills, and competencies acquired in the master's degree.

Teaching:

• The program is taught by a team of experienced professors, including:
• Dr. D. José Sánchez-Sanz: Doctor in Information Sciences and a graduate of Composition and Orchestra Conducting.
Composer specializing in the application of music to audiovisual media and researcher in this field.
• Dra.
Dª. Cristina Palmese: Doctor in Architecture, specialist and researcher in contemporary music applied to sound spaces. Co-director of the La Casa del Sonido program on Radio Clásica.
• D. Luis J. Menéndez: Music journalist and artistic and cultural manager.
He has been director of the specialized music medium Mondosonoro and regularly collaborates with different media outlets.
• D. Javier Blanquez: Music journalist, researcher, and teacher.
He has published several books, including Loops: A History of Electronic Music in the 20th Century.
• Dª.
Elena Rosillo: Graduate in Journalism and Audiovisual Communication and Doctor in Sociology. She has worked as a music journalist, cultural manager, and teacher in different higher education centers.

Careers:

• Potential Career Paths:
• Teacher or researcher
• Dedicated to obtaining a doctorate
• Higher education teaching
• In Universities and Conservatories
• Communication field
• Oriented to practicing music criticism in the media
• Management field
• Organization of musical events, concerts, festivals, musical theater, sound art exhibitions, and music recording and publishing production
• Professions related to music
• In research, archive, and documentation centers, libraries, music criticism in academic or popular press, music programming in concert halls, radio, television, and digital media

Other:

• The program is officially certified by ANECA, which is dependent on the Ministry of Education.
• The program is eligible for points in teaching positions in the Public Administration.
• The Universidad Europea has 5/5 stars in online teaching in the QS Stars international quality rating.
• The Universidad Europea has 25 years of experience.
• The Universidad Europea is the largest private university in Spain, by number of students.
• The Universidad Europea has agreements with more than 12,000 private, subsidized, and public centers throughout Spain.
• The program is based on a comprehensive training based on theoretical-practical learning through real cases.
• The program has a high experiential component, combined with professional teachers and internships in educational centers, which makes students achieve an expert profile with greater potential in the labor market.
• The program is committed to educational innovation, with an updated training adapted to the reality of the educational sector today, guaranteeing a connection with the real world from day one.
• The program offers a variety of scholarships and financial aid options.
• The program offers a free and non-binding study of validations for students with prior studies or work experience.
• The program offers a variety of exam locations in Spain and Latin America.