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29 Master's degrees in Music in Ireland

Music Technology
The Music Technology course from Maynooth University is creativity-driven, with emphasis on musical aspects of computer programming and audio technology.

Composition and Creative Music Practice
This Composition and Creative Music Practice course from the University of Limerick is a unique one-year full-time or two-year part-time programme for composers, sound artists, improvisers and performers from all music traditions.

Community Music
Throughout the Community Music course from the University of Limerick you will work with people of all ages and backgrounds and learn to design projects that are artistically strong and socially responsive.

Sound and Music Computing
This Sound and Music Computing programme at Maynooth University caters for students who want to concentrate on technical aspects of the music and creative industries.

Irish Music Studies
The Irish Music Studies from the University of Limerick encourages students to explore what constitutes Irish music in the broadest sense - analytically through research and discourse, or performatively through practice and presentation.

Music
This Music course offered at University College Cork is ideal, and unique in Ireland, for graduates in non-music subjects who want to qualify in music to degree level and beyond. Success in this course may be said to be the equivalent of acquiring a degree in music.

Music Performance - Pre-Master's Programme
This one-year Music Performance - Pre-Master's Programme from OnCampus Ireland at Royal Irish Academy of Music offers successful students guaranteed progression* to a range of partner universities.

Music, Sound, Culture and Media
The MA in Music, Sound, Culture and Media at Dublin City University is primarily designed for students wishing to engage in a programme that reflects increasingly interdisciplinary spheres of music, sound and cultural and media production and engagement in contemporary societies.

Pre-Master's Programme
This one-year Pre-Master's Programme from OnCampus Ireland at Royal Irish Academy of Music offers successful students guaranteed progression* to a range of partner universities.

Songwriting
The Songwriting programme from University of Limerick is for people who want to study the artistic practice of songwriting in depth.

Choral Studies
On the MA in Choral Studies from Dublin City University, students will acquire advanced skills in conducting, composing and ensemble singing while also understanding the relationship between cultural policy, public bodies and enterprise in the arts.

Music and Media Technologies
In recognition of a shared interest in Information Technology and a growing awareness of its relevance for music, Electronic and Electrical Engineering and Music initiated a Master programme in Music and Media Technologies in Trinity College Dublin in 1996.

Classical String Performance
The Classical String Performance course from University of Limerick enables you to develop your skills and realise your full potential as a postgraduate string player, ready to embark on a professional career.

Music and Cultural History
The Music and Cultural History course offered by University College Cork is a progressive alternative to conventional postgraduate courses in musicology, and it draws on the diverse expertise of internationally renowned scholars to combine the very best of traditional and contemporary scholarly practice.

Sound and Music Computing
The Sound and Music Computing programme from Maynooth University caters for students who want to concentrate on technical aspects of the music and creative industries.

Creative Music Technologies
The Creative Music Technologies degree at Maynooth University is aimed at graduates with musical abilities, who would like to explore musical applications of technology. The programme accepts graduates from any primary degree.

Experimental Sound Practice
This Experimental Sound Practice degree delivered by the University College Cork is for those undertaking creative work involving sound, including notated or recorded compositions; improvisations; sound art; visual art with a sound component; music theatre; performance art; installations etc.

Music Therapy
The Music Therapy course from the University of Limerick prepares students for professional practice as music therapists, combining music, therapeutic and clinical skills with cross-cultural awareness.

Ritual Chant and Song
This Ritual Chant and Song at University of Limerick offers specialist training in Western plainchant and Irish traditional religious song (sean-nós), which are contextualised by a programme of study in ritual theory, manuscript studies, and historical context.

Irish Traditional Music
This Irish Traditional Music degree delivered by the University College Cork provides a holistic practical and theoretical immersion in Irish Traditional Music practice and scholarship. The programme draws on wide-ranging internationally-recognised expertise to offer a progressively flexible postgraduate pathway in Irish Traditional Music.