Students from a country where English is not the first language, must obtain a minimum English Language competency level.
IELTS: 6.0 (no band less than 5.5)
TOEFL iBT: 80 overall (min 19 in Writing)
PTE Academic: 50 Overall (min 42 in communicative skills)
Cambridge English: 170
For the Music Practice major (and minor), you must register for an audition.
The best start in commercial music
Radical shifts are happening in the global music industry, and the Bachelor of Commercial Music is designed to meet this challenge. Taught by award-winning musicians, technicians and industry experts, this degree is ideal if you want to study popular music-based genres, digital-based music technologies, and music industry practice.
In the Bachelor of Commercial Music, you will:
learn the skills of your major: Music Practice, Music Industry or Music Technology
broaden your expertise with courses from a second music subject
think critically about the music industry and where you want to position yourself
work collaboratively on gigs, short tours, music videos and other projects.
There are three majors: Music Practice, Music Technology, Music Industry.
Music Practice
You’ll study musicianship and cross-genre performance using your instrument or musical interface of choice, along with computer-based production and composition techniques.
All content will be firmly based in popular music, covering a wide range of genres and approaches to learning with a focus on original music.
Music Technology
You’ll study software and hardware development, electronics, and concepts for developing new musical interfaces.
Once we know you have the basics, you will be designing and building your own instruments and applications.
You’ll also learn how to operate industry standard large consoles, as well as the latest digital recording and editing technologies.
Master microphone techniques and sound design. Learn how to work with musicians to capture great recordings, and mixing and mastering techniques to produce professional quality recordings.
You’ll also learn live light and sound skills, including how to operate small and large scale PAs, and design and programme advanced lighting and projection rigs. We’ll teach you about all aspects of live, venue-based industry requirements.
Music Industry
You’ll study artist development and management, label and distribution, music publishing, one-off and large-scale live events, and future industry trends.
Your skills will be developed by project managing live music for concerts, tours and festivals.
Join with students from other majors to study courses in music video production, web development, gigs, touring, recording and music media. The critical content of the programme spans new musicology, free culture, the political economy of music, and music philosophy. All courses in all majors of the programme foreground music as the primary discipline, whether explored through a creative, critical, technical or commercial context.
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Shared core courses
All students, regardless of their major, must take shared core courses. The First Year compulsory shared courses are:
Music Media 1
Contemporary Musicology
Music Project 1 (30 credits)
Core studio courses for each major
You must do all the courses listed for your major.
The First Year compulsory courses for each major are:
Music Industry
Music Artist Development
Music Entrepreneurship 1
Music Practice
Music Practice 1
Music Production and Composition 1
Music Technology
Musical Interface and Interaction 1
Music and Sound Engineering 1
Electives
The Bachelor of Commercial Music programme has space for up to 75 credits worth of courses of your choice, known as electives.
In the first year, you must select one elective from another Commercial Music major and the second one can be selected from:
any of the 100-level design, fine arts and creative media production electives at the College of Creative Arts,
core studio courses from another commercial music major (Music Practice 1 and Music Production and Composition 1 require an audition), and
a range of electives from other colleges at Massey University (eg humanities, business).
Recent developments in digital technologies and online platforms offer new and exciting entrepreneurial and employment careers in the music industry. Musicians can compose for films, TV, games, apps and digital platforms, produce recordings, tour, manage artists and promote their brand.
Working behind the scenes, you can find jobs in the recording and publishing industries such as artist and repertoire (A&R), marketing or management. The live sector is also lucrative, and provides jobs in promotion, venue management and a range of other support roles.
If you’re interested in music technology you can find entrepreneurial and employment careers in software and hardware development, sound engineering live and in studios, as well as lighting design, and stage and production design.
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