This program responds to the growing need of Lebanese society, which is inherent in music-related professions.

It is, above all, about the Lebanese school education sector, which needs to hire (over the next 15 years) a large number of music educators, due to the legislation that makes music education mandatory over primary schools and the shortage of qualified teachers.

It is also about music therapy, the adjunct care sector in neurology and psychiatry, using musical listening, and music practice, while in Lebanon, the music-therapist profession is in a promising phase.

Finally, it is about music sound professionals and experts in the integration and processing of music in the media (including the press), qualified researchers in the field of musicology and professional musicians (musical traditions of the Orient, Baroque music), with a background in musicology.

Graduates of this program shall become musical experts, especially music educators, music therapist auxiliaries, musical sound professionals, or professional cultivated and high-flying musicians, in particular, in the traditions of the Orient and ancient European and Mediterranean music. These trades are to be carried out in schools in the public or private sector, in technical schools and music schools, in treatment centers (music therapy), in social or media production companies, or professional musical performance frameworks.

The graduation program enables the development and deepening of music and general musicology competencies, besides specific skills to each of the six concentration, while at the same time introducing an essential component of initiation into scientific research. The Master 2 also opens the way to doctoral registration by setting up a fully-fledged professionalization diploma.

The FMM proposes to its best graduates to take advantage of the agreements of doctoral co-direction with the Sorbonne Université and the Institute for Research in Musicology (IReMus), while remaining attached to the Centre for Research on Musical Traditions of the FMM. These music-related professions require the articulation of several types of complementary skills. Some of these skills are general:

• essential practical and theoretical musical competencies, in Levantine and European music;
• scientific research skills, inherent in musicology and related disciplines of targeted concentration.

Others are specific:

• pedagogical competencies (MT_MM_SEM);
• health care competencies (MT_MM_MTP).
• technological competencies (MT_MM_MTM);
• advanced oriental music competencies (MT_MM_MSA); and
• advanced occidental music competencies (MT_MM_MSE), particularly in baroque music (sub-concentration MB).

It is also about soft-skills:

• verbal and musical, written and oral communication ;
• critical thinking;
• scientific rigor;
• ethical correctness; and
• friendliness in diversity.

Graduates of this program, while becoming high-level music educators, music therapists, professional musicians, musical sound experts, or music critics in the press and media, may pursue doctoral studies to become university lecturers and researchers.

Any student holding a bachelor’s in Music and Musicology of the same concentration, obtained from the Faculty of Music and Musicology (FMM) at the Antonine University (UA) or any other approved higher education institution, may apply to study in the Master’s program. If the candidate have completed his bachelor’s degree in a focus other than that planning for the Master’s degree, the applicant must validate the requisites courses as remedial.

Conditions of admission in Master 1

For all plans:

• hold a Lebanese Baccalaureate, or it’s equivalent;
• hold a BA in music and musicology, which the transcript is examined by the FMM Transfers and Equivalences Commission, with an average of more than 14/20 (in European system) or a GPA higher than 2.3 (in the American system); and
• pass on an orientation interview with the Dean.

Educational practices are classified into:

• courses of introduction to research methods, lectures on musicological research methodology and introduction seminars on musicological research, with emphasis on ethical deontology of the researcher’s;
• collective scientific courses of musicology, music education sciences and music therapy delivered as lectures, while resorting, at the same time, to ancillary and diverse learning strategies, including group work and preparation of literature reviews, synthesis reports, and presentations by students based on the information and communication technologies (ICT) in education;
• music (Levantine and Western) and harmony training courses which combine ear training with musical listening, memorization, collective singing, collective and individual solfeggio reading and musical dictation, while making use of the information and communication technologies (ICT) in education;
• collective courses of music therapy, which combine theoretical teaching and learning with practical training courses in healthcare contexts; and
• individual and collective music instruction courses aimed at the development of students enrolled in the Arab Art Music or European Art Music concentrations in terms of high-end instrumental or vocal learning.

Assessment components

The system for assessing students’ achievement of course learning outcomes is based on the evaluation components as follows, depending on the types of courses taught:

Theoretical courses A of mainly lecture-based teaching leading to a cumulative assessment of four evaluative components, as follows:

• Component 1, with 20%: continuous evaluation (classroom activities, tests, assignments, oral presentations, etc.);
• Component 2, with 20%: Test 1 (Written test of 30 minutes);
• Component 3, with 20%: Test 2 (Written test of 30 minutes);
• Componet 4, with 40%: Final exam (anonymous test taken at the end of the semester);

Theoretical courses B of mainly lecture-based teaching leading to a cumulative assessment of four evaluative components, as follows:

• Component 1, with 20%: continuous evaluation (classroom activities, tests, assignments, oral presentations, etc.);
• Component 2, with 20%: Test 1 (Written test of 30 minutes);
• Component 3, with 20%: Test 2 (Project presentation);
• Componet 4, with 40%: Final exam (anonymous test taken at the end of the semester);

Courses of occidental musical training, Mashriqi musical training, and harmony, leading to a cumulative evaluation consisting of six evaluative components, as follows:

• Component 1, with 10%;
• Component 2, with 10%;
• Component 3, summary, with 30%;
• Component 4, with 10%;
• Component 5 with 10%;
• Component 6, summary, with 30%.

The supervising teacher evaluates the internships as follows:

• Component 1, evaluation of internship participation, with 30%;
• Component 2, evaluation of placement learning outcomes, with 30%;
• Component 3, evaluation of the placement report with 40%.

Individual musical practice courses shall be evaluated by the teacher and a Board of Examiners as follows :

• Component 1, continuous assessment, with 60%;
• Component 2, assessment by the Board of Examiners, with 40%.

The passing grade for all courses in the graduate is set at 70/100.

Grading

The graduate students are covered by the GPA academic regime.

The result obtained by a student enrolled in a given course appears as a numerical notation of 100 on the Student Information System (SIS), this result is translated into the SIS and the transcripts into the alphabetical ranking.

Graduation Requirements

To be eligible for a Master 1, Master 2 or Teaching Diploma, students under the academic regime with GPA (cohorts registered for the first time in a graduate degree from September 2019 and concerned by the calculation of the GPA) must fulfill the following requirements:

• validate all credits required for the academic program courses (passing grade: 70/100);
• validate all other admission requirements;
• achieve an overall cumulative GPA greater than or equal to 2.3/4 (equivalent to an overall average greater than or equal to 75/100);
• achieve a cumulative GPA specific to the discipline (for the musical training courses) greater than or equal to 2.3/4;
• demonstrate ethical conduct in the university;
• have honored payment of all tuition fees at the university.

Common PLOs:

At the end of the program of MT_MM, the student will be able to

• decipher and transcribe a musical score of a complex musical sequence used in the chosen professional context;
• analyze in-depth musical sequences from several traditions;
• plan musicological research, in a sub-disciplinary field well known to the apprentice researcher and in an area of study accessible to him, by formulating the objectives, questions, and hypotheses of this research in an appropriate manner and following the established epistemological principles;
• conduct musicological research on a subject known to the student, using proper methodological tools, while respecting the epistemological beliefs of the chosen sub-discipline and the ethical principles of scientific research; and
• communicate effectively orally and in writing (in French, in English or Arabic), by building a credible and reasoned discourse, around research work meeting the usual methodological criteria.

Specific PLOs:

At the end of the Master 1 in Music and Musicology – Music Therapy option, students will be able to develop a scientific research project in music therapy culturally contextualized concerning Lebanon and the Levant. This research shall be original, relevant, and well written, and will be finalized in the Master 2 by a thesis in due and proper form. In addition, students will be capable of using music in a therapeutic context, in a receptive perspective, and an active perspective, based on psychopathological and neurological diagnostics established by the specialists and under their strict supervision.