What will I learn?

The Masters in Songwriting course is a practice-based, industry-led programme, placing your development as a songwriter in a critical and contextual setting. Working in a peer community, with teaching and support from current industry songwriting practitioners and academics, you’ll explore and refine your creative output and goals, considering artist, commercial and intellectual outcomes.

Students complete a series of modules which focus on creative exploration, technical songwriting exercises, musicology and creative voice, before undertaking a final Masters project, choosing either the creation of a new major repertoire work (typically a debut album) or a dissertation in the area of songwriting.

ICMP's Songwriting masters classes explore the art and craft of contemporary songwriting, with students writing at least one song every week. You’ll collaborate with other ICMP students and will engage in small group ‘A&R-style’ feedback and critical discussion with your professional songwriting tutors and talented peers, regularly critiquing each other’s works-in-progress across the course of the year.

As a graduate of the Masters in Songwriting course, you’ll leave ICMP London school of music with the skills, knowledge, confidence and connections required to succeed in whichever direction your songwriting path takes you, whether that’s within the worlds of the music business, the songwriting industry, education, academia or beyond.

Successful completion of the programme Masters in Songwriting at ICMP Music College leads to the award of MA by the University of East London.

TEACHING, LEARNING AND ASSESSMENT

You will be taught utilising our live rooms, tech suites and in-house music studio facilities as well as classrooms and lecture rooms. You will have access to use these facilities outside of class time while you are a student at ICMP in order to rehearse and record your music.

You will be taught through a variety of teaching and learning methods including lectures, small group tutorials, performance workshops, music technology workshops tutorials and one to one instrumental tuition.

Which department am I in?

Institute Of Contemporary Music Performance (The)

Study options

Full Time (1 year)

Tuition fees
£15,250.00 (16,05,601) per year
This is a fixed fee
Start date

23 September 2024

Venue

Institute of Contemporary Music Performance

ICMP,

1B Dyne Road,

London,

Camden,

NW6 7XG, England

Entry requirements

For international students

Applicants will normally have a good Honours degree (upper second or first) or equivalent, or comparable professional or research experience. ICMP London school of music also welcomes applications from established practitioners who are keen to undertake study at the postgraduate level but may not possess the required qualifications. These students may be given credit for their prior study or experience. International: English language requirement – minimum level B2 of the CEFR.

*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.

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