Master of Contemporary Improvisation
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The Department of Contemporary Music Studies is pleased to announce a new performance based course in improvisation in music beginning in early 2009. The course is open to the widest possible understanding of improvisation and draws upon music cultures at home and around the world. So if you are a guitar player wanting to improve your solos, a kit drummer wanting to work on your groove, a Turkish saz player wanting to augment your maqam practice, a sitar player wanting to develop your rhythmic or melodic skills, a jazz player wanting to work on a systematic approach to improvisation, a Cuban percussionist, an Oud player, a Flamenco guitarist, a Jazz saxophonist, a Celtic fiddler, a music teacher wanting to develop improvisatory practices for the class room … then this is the course is for you!
This cutting edge course is offered concurrently as a Masters in Contemporary Improvisation (8 units), Graduate Diploma in Improvisation (6 units) or a Graduate Certificate in Improvisation (4 units). This means you can tailor the course exactly to your needs. You can learn advanced rhythmic skills, improvisation in harmonic and modal settings, diverse ways of thinking about music based on the performance practice of many cultures, how to put this knowledge together in ensemble practice and much much more.
The course will be taught by leading academics and professional musicians with significant international performance experience and reputations.
If you are as excited by this course as we are,
then please visit www.dcms.mq.edu.au
or contact
Dr. Adrian McNeil
+ 61 2 9850 8861
or
Lisa Cuffe
+ 61 2 9850 6808