
Univ.-Prof. for Elemental Music & Dance Education
The master's program in Elemental Music & Movement Education enables students to build on their previous studies to create creativity-driven approaches to music, dance and language and to support people in their artistic expressiveness. Students engage with art forms from the past and present in an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary manner and learn to initiate diverse encounters with the arts.
Study & Examination Management
+43 676 88122 492
studienabteilung@moz.ac.at
Length
4 semesters / 120 ECTS-AP
Language
German
Registration deadline
from February each year
to the dates
Admission examinations
Summer semester of each year
to the dates
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Students are qualified to plan, implement and reflect on musical-dance learning processes in a variety of artistic-pedagogical contexts. This master's degree program qualifies students in a special way to implement elemental music and movement education in the professional fields already linked by previous studies.
The aim of the study programme is to go beyond the bachelor's degree and to deepen the subject-specific, artistic, theoretical-scientific and pedagogical-didactic knowledge in the field of elemental music and dance education. Subject-specific and interdisciplinary topics are dealt with in a variety of artistic and academic formats and
formats and are discussed/understood as mutually enriching. In the process, diverse encounters with a contemporary, innovative and future-oriented artistic and pedagogical practice are realised.
Research-based approaches qualify students for a reflected artistic-pedagogical and theoretical-scientific practice.
practice. The development of independent art productions and questions is promoted by the respective specialisation in performative-artistic or pedagogical-scientific aspects.
Individual competences are developed and differentiated in the course of study towards an academic profile. In particular, the following are expanded and professionalised:
The four-semester course of study has a modular structure. A module is the combination of teaching and learning content into thematically and didactically meaningful units of study. The names and content-related descriptions (study objectives) of the individual modules, as well as the number of ECTS credits to be achieved for each module and the type of performance assessment are specified in the module descriptions in the curriculum.
These contain the respective learning outcomes (knowledge, skills, competencies). The study program includes creative-design, artistic-technical, art- and educational-scientific and pedagogical-practical areas and is characterized by a consistent theory-practice relationship. Artistic competencies are acquired and differentiated. It opens up working methods of a contemporary elemental music and dance pedagogy including performative formats. From this, skills for teaching music and dance are derived and these are transferred into diverse, constantly reforming, artistic-pedagogical contexts, with special consideration of social diversity.
Admission to the Master's program Elemental Music and Movement Pedagogy requires the completion of a relevant Bachelor's programme (BA) or another equivalent programme at a recognised Austrian or foreign post-secondary educational institution (e.g. university, college) (§ 64 para. 3 UG 2002).
In addition, a prerequisite for admission to the degree programme is the successful completion of the admission examination. For this, an online registration is required first, during which the necessary documents are checked. Only after the completely submitted documents have been checked will an invitation to the admission examination be issued.
ATTENTION:
Necessary documents for online application
Form of the documents
The Admission Examination
Within the admission examination, the following partial examinations have to be passed:
A- Artistic-pedagogical aptitude (leading a group)
Examination requirements: The focus of this part of the examination is to determine aptitude for artistically oriented teaching practice with groups. The candidates work with a group (usually fellow candidates) on a prepared piece of their own choice, possibly also composed by themselves, e.g. song or canon with or without accompaniment (body percussion, instruments, movements, gestures, dance): Song or canon with or without accompaniment (body percussion, instruments, movements, gestures, dance), traditional dance or excerpt of a choreography, spoken word piece, simple ensemble piece (instrumental, vocal). The material used with the corresponding source information (e.g. sheet music, spoken piece, choreographic sketch, music selection) and steps of the lesson planning (course plan) are to be brought to the entrance examination in triplicate in written form. The teaching rehearsal is to be reflected on afterwards
B - Audition Instrument/Performance Voice
Examination requirements Recital Singing:
Examination requirements Audition Instrument:
C - Pedagogical-practical entrance examination
Examination requirements General musical aptitude: All applicants take an examination on percussion aptitude, which is determined by participation in an ensemble class under the direction of a teacher. Contents include question and answer games, imitation and coordination exercises.
Examination requirements practical aptitude voice:
All applicants take a practical aptitude test for voice:
D - Dance Practice (general dance aptitude in the group and solo study)
Examination requirements general dance aptitude in the group: participation in a dance technique class (contemporary), examination in the group under the guidance of a teacher with the following elements, among others: Guided warm up, implementation of given movement material in the square and through the space, rhythmic exercises, contact and spatial orientation exercises, variation and interpretation of movement material and improvisation. (Duration approx. 45-60 minutes.)
Examination requirements Solo study: Performance of a prepared, individually designed movement/dance study on a freely chosen topic, e.g. presentation of a movement research or dance movement scene, with movement material to be chosen by the candidate. The study can be designed with or without music and/or include other elements supporting or sustaining the performance (text, image, object, etc.). (Duration: minimum three to maximum five minutes.) This is followed by a short discussion on intention, process, if necessary a spontaneous task on what has been shown and questions on previous experience in dance.
E - Music theory and ear training
Examination of basic knowledge of general music theory (written and oral) including an aural test.
Requirements in the written part of the examination (approx. 60 minutes):
Requirements in the oral part of the examination (5-10 minutes):
You can find an exam example as well as further help for preparation HERE.
F - German language skills
After passing Partial Examination A, you will be admitted to Partial Examinations B-D (possibly in a different order). The repetition of the sub-examinations A-C in case of failure is not permitted. The admission examination can only be repeated in its entirety and only in the next academic year. The admission examination can be repeated an unlimited number of times.
Dates & time schedule
The dates of the admission examination as well as important deadlines can be found in the current schedule.
Time schedule:
Deviating examination method
Please note that the University Mozarteum Salzburg offers various support options for the admission examination and during your studies if you have a disability or a chronic illness.
If this applies to you and you would like to take advantage of counselling, please contact Claudia Haitzmann: claudia.haitzmann@moz.ac.at or +43 676 88122 337.
Students of the Master's programme are recommended to complete a semester abroad. Semesters 2 and 3 of the degree programme are particularly suitable for this. In addition to the subject-specific competences, the following qualifications can be acquired through a study period abroad:
The recognition of examinations taken during studies abroad as compulsory subjects, elective subjects or free elective subjects is carried out by the Director of Studies. The documents required for the assessment are to be submitted by the applicant immediately after the stay abroad.
Details at International Affairs
The Master's examination (= the Master's degree) consists of the following parts:
Here you can find more information about starting your studies: