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Master 2 in Music and Musicology

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  • 12Credits
  • 1Duration of the program
  • $160Price
Official Name of the Program Master 2 in Music and Musicology
Official Degree Level Master 2
Price/Credit Collective course: $160 – Individual course: $200
Campuses Availability Hadat–Baabda

Program Objectives

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.

Eligibility

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 2

  • hold a Lebanese Baccalaureate, or it’s equivalent;
  • hold a master 1 degree in music and musicology, which the transcript is examined by the FMM Transfers and Equivalences Commission, with an average of more than 15/20 (in European system) or a GPA higher than 3 (in the American system);
  • pass on an orientation interview with the Dean.

 

Teaching Methods

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.

 

Evaluation Process

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.
Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs)

At the end of the Master 2 in music and musicology (DEA_MM), students will be capable of producing a well-written research thesis (on average 140 pages), in the musicological sub-disciplinary field of the previous Master 1 degree. This research must be original and relevant. Students also have to defend this research before a jury, by presenting the thesis synthesis in a well-argued manner, by describing the scientific path taken and highlighting the results achieved, and by convincingly answering the questions of the members of the jury.

 

Job Prospects

Graduates of this program shall become researchers in musicology and teachers in university level.

Program Structure

General scientific program


Code Course Credits
Research seminar – Master 2 in Music and musicology
Research Thesis
MEMO501 Master 2 Research These in Music and Musicology
Master 2 Research These in Music and Musicology
MEMO501
6 Credits
This course corresponds to the process of developing 100-130-page research in musicology by a student under the supervision of a research director. The supervision sessions must be eighteen hours in total, over eight months. At the end of the course, the appointed researchers defend their thesis before a jury for evaluation.
6
MEMO502 Master 2 Research These in Music and Musicology
Master 2 Research These in Music and Musicology
MEMO502
3 Credits
This course corresponds to the process of developing 100-130-page research in musicology by a student under the supervision of a research director. The supervision sessions must be eighteen hours in total, over eight months. At the end of the course, the appointed researcher's defense their thesis before a jury for evaluation.
3
MEMO503 Master 2 Research These in Music and Musicology
Master 2 Research These in Music and Musicology
MEMO503
3 Credits
This course corresponds to the process of developing 100-130-page research in musicology by a student under the supervision of a research director. The supervision sessions must be eighteen hours in total, over eight months. At the end of the course, the appointed researcher's defense their thesis before a jury for evaluation.
3
Elective Course


Code Course Credits
ANCC 498 Statistics
Statistics
ANCC 498
3 Credits
3
MUFE 102 Introduction to Counterpoint
Introduction to Counterpoint
MUFE 102
3 Credits
Introduction to contrapuntal writing according to the French school.
3
MUMS 112 Psychocognition of Music
Psychocognition of Music
MUMS 112
3 Credits
Cognitive psychology studies the great psychological functions of the human being related to knowledge. The cognitive psychology of music applies this disciplinary approach to the musical phenomenon, from both a poietic (production: composition, improvisation, interpretation, performance, and performance of the musical utterance) and aesthetic (reception of the musical utterance by the listener), relying on the immanent or neutral analytical level and reserving a special place in the process of developing related skills (learning). This course presents the disciplinary framework of cognitive psychology within cognitive research, particularly with neuroscience, as well as the history of research on music perception. It also studies in detail some of the research applied to polyphonic tonal music and modal monodic musical traditions.
3
MUMS 114 Neurosciences and Music
Neurosciences and Music
MUMS 114
3 Credits
This course introduces neuroscience in their approach to the musical phenomenon from perception, cognition, and psychomotor production.
3
MUMS 115 Receptive Music Therapy
Receptive Music Therapy
MUMS 115
3 Credits
This course introduces receptive music therapy and represents both its theoretical and practical aspects. The theoretical part defines music therapy as a science of its right. It defines its framework and its fields of intervention, as an adjunct to medical therapy, particularly in psychiatry and neurology. It introduces receptive music therapy as a method of listening to musical extracts capable of causing effects in patients who are called upon to incorporate into the therapeutic process. As for the second part, it introduces creativity and claims in favor of music therapy, the use of the musical elements listened to in the therapeutic relationship.
3
MUMS 116 Active Music Therapy
Active Music Therapy
MUMS 116
3 Credits
This course introduces active music therapy and represents both its theoretical and practical aspects. The theoretical part defines music therapy as a science of its right. It defines its framework and its fields of intervention, as an adjunct to medical therapy, particularly in psychiatry and neurology. It presents active music therapy as a method that promotes non-verbal sound communication in the field of music therapy and which uses vocal and instrumental practice, often improvised in patients, to establish such communication for therapeutic purposes. As for the second part, it brings experimentation and argues the use of music elements listened to in the therapeutic relationship in support of music therapy.
3
MUMS 142 Music Therapy and Childhood Disorders
Music Therapy and Childhood Disorders
MUMS 142
3 Credits
Each of the childhood disorders will be treated as follows: definition, diagnostic criteria, classification, etiology, major associated disorders, some epidemiological data, and signs of appeal, followed by resources on the course and how to act in music therapy for each disorder.
3
MUMS 147 Advanced Music Therapy Practices
Advanced Music Therapy Practices
MUMS 147
3 Credits
Further theoretical development and implementation of principles in, active and responsive music therapy are given in this training. Music therapy is characterized in the theoretical part as knowledge of itself. It defines its structure and area, especially for the psychiatry and neurology, as a complement to medical therapy. The practical part allows future professionals to observe and practice music therapy in the field and this under the accompaniment of qualified music therapists. As for the last part, it argues through the analysis of practices, the use of musical elements played or listened to in the therapeutic relationship in accompaniment in music therapy. This course enhances competencies previously developed in the course MUMS 146 - Music Therapy Practices.
3