Music Electives
The following is intended as a guide to elective offerings. Not all electives will be available each year.
Applied Skills Electives
- Ensemble 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6
- Computing for Musicians
- Music Technology
- Essay Writing for Music Subjects (as directed)
- Art of Piano Teaching 1 (for piano majors only)
- Language and Diction German, Italian, French and Spanish (for voice majors only)
(Offered in alternate years) - Chamber Music 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 (by permission)
- Minor Music Performance 1, 2, 3 and 4 (by permission of the Dean)
Ensembles
- Acting for Singers
- African Drum and Dance Ensemble
- Australian Contemporary Chorale
- Baroque Ensemble
- Big Band
- Brass Ensemble
- Cello Ensemble
- Chamber Orchestra
- Clarinet Ensemble
- Early Voices
- Faculty of Music Choir
- Faculty of Music Orchestra
- Gamelan
- Great Opera Choruses
- Guitar Ensemble
- Melbourne Collegium
- New Audience Ensemble
- Percussion Ensemble
- Piano Duo and Duet
- Recorder Ensemble
- Renaissance Dance Ensemble
- Shakuhachi
- Sinfonia
- The Art of Gesture for Singers and Actors
- University of Melbourne Chinese Music Ensemble
- Vocal Ensemble
- Wind Ensemble
- World Music Choir
Academic Electives
All students mast take at least one academic elective in year 2 or 3 of the course
- Art Music and Postmodernism
- Baroque Music of the German World
- Broadway and the Music of the Theatre
- Cabaret!
- Court, Church and Urban Music 1450–1600
- In the Groove
- Music Analysis
- Music and Film
- Music and Migration:The Australian Case
- Music and the Poetic World
- Music and the Shaman
- Music Criticism
- Music Cultures of Asia
- Music in Australia
- Music of the Manuscript Tradition
- Musical Theatre in Asia
- Notation and Music Editing
- Paris! Berlioz to the Ballets Russes
- Ragtime to Rap: Popular Music since 1900
- Rainforest Societies and their Music
- Romantic Piano Music
- Sex, Death, and the Ecstatic in Music
- Sounding Off: Music and Politics
- Stravinsky and the Music of the 20th Century
- Studies in Opera
- The Music of Java and Bali
- The Music of Spain
- The World of Music
- Wagner's Ring
- Women in Music
Music Studies Electives
- Composition Studies
- Engagement with the Music Profession
- Music Language 3: Modern Directions
- Music Psychology
- Orchestration
- Research Project