Study structure

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The program consists of compulsory modules and elective courses for individual specialization. The fourth semester includes the master's degree module.

In addition to typical courses in historical and systematic musicology as well as music education/music mediation, the program is characterized by numerous practical and future-oriented courses. On the one hand, these include the basics of layout and music notation, business administration, and copyright law; on the other hand, there are courses on digital music marketing, structural change in music publishing, and a lecture series on new business models.

8 modules

Topics:
Musicology Deepening / Updating / Key Competencies and Activity-Specific Specialization
Music Education/Music Mediation
Layout and Music Notation
Analysis, Arranging, Composition
Music Publishing / Music Business

Four practice-related modules

The scheduled practical sessions will be offered by our practice partner:s and will take place predominantly on their premises. Topics:

Publishing - tasks, functioning and significance of collecting societies, legal basis
Stages of music publishing work - in general and on the example of a project partner

The study program is attractive and practice-oriented above all because the Kassel-based publishers Furore-Pan-Merseburger https://furore-verlag.de/, the Verwertungsgesellschaft Musikedition https://www.vg-musikedition.de/, the Bärenreiter-Verlagsgruppe https://www.baerenreiter.com/home.php and (nationally) the Helbling-Verlag https://www.helbling.com/de/de in Esslingen have been firmly integrated into the study program. During the four semesters of the standard period of study, students can always take advantage of an accompanying offer from the four practice partners.

Together with the student teachers in Kassel, courses in musical analysis as well as in composition and arrangement are also completed in music publishing, in order to get to know (in basic outline) the side of the authors who typically approach publishing houses with such products.

The practice partners have the possibility to propose topics for master theses, so that the results can be used or implemented directly or become a work sample for a potential future job.

Study plan (exemplary)

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