Study structure

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The course consists of compulsory modules and elective courses for individual specialization. The Master's degree module is scheduled for the fourth semester.

In addition to typical courses in historical and systematic musicology as well as music education/music mediation, the course is characterized by numerous practical and future-oriented courses. These include the basics of layout and music notation, business administration and copyright law, as well as a lecture series on digital music marketing, structural change in music publishing and new business models every semester.

8 modules

Topics:
Musicology in-depth / updating / key skills and job-specific specialization
Music education / music mediation
Layout and music notation
Analysis, arranging, composition
Music publishing / music business

Four practical modules

The planned practical events are offered by our practice partners and will mainly take place on their premises. Topics:

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

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

Together with the teacher training students in Kassel, courses in musical analysis as well as composition and arrangement are also completed in music publishing in order to get to know (in basic terms) the side of the authors who typically approach publishers with such products.

The practice partners have the opportunity to suggest topics for Master's theses, so that the results can be directly reused or implemented in part or become a work sample for potential future employment.