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Master of Arts (MA)

The program’s modular strucuture enables full-time students and working professionals alike to study at their own pace while maintaining or building their careers.
Global competitiveness, continuous professional development, self-management, professionalism, and economic performance are considered core objectives in our program with the aim to enhance our graduates’ employability and careers.

Music Management

Contents
  • Orchestra and Concert Stage Venue Management
  • Opera, and Classical Music Festival Management
  • Artist Management
  • Live Music Management: International Popular Music Forms
  • Music for Applied Media: The Creative Process and Business Modus Operandi
ECTS-Points

13

Management and Entrepreneurship

Contents
  • Survey of Business Administration
  • Introduction to Microeconomics
  • Accounting
  • Sponsorships, Funding and Financing
  • Marketing, Sales and PR for Composers and Music-Artist Managers
  • Creative Leadership and Organization
  • Entrepreneurship Fundamentals for Music Professionals
  • Professionalism and Ethics
ECTS-Points

15

Music Markets

Contents
  • International Music Markets
  • Economics and the Music Market
  • Survey of the Classical Music Industry
  • Music Marketing
ECTS-Points

13

Music and Law

Contents
  • Fundamentals of Civil Law: Continental / Europe, Commonwealth / US
  • Entertainment and Contractual Law: Continental, Commonwealth
  • Intellectual Property (IP) Law: Continental, Commonwealth, China
  • Performance and Collecting Rights Societies: PRO's
  • E-Commerce
  • Producing and Presenting Public Music Events
  • Labor Law Survey: Continental, Commonwealth
  • Introduction to International Taxation: Laws, Treaties
ECTS-Points

15

Music and Media

Contents
  • Introduction to Media Theory
  • Music and New Media
  • Music and Print
  • Music and Broadcasting
  • International Press Agencies
  • Music PR
ECTS-Points

13

Music - Aesthetics, Psychology, Sociology and History Survey

Contents
  • Psychology and Music Perception
  • Music Aesthetics, Humanity and Society
  • Western Music History Survey
  • Popular Music Forms, Jazz
  • Global Music: Traditional & Contemporary "World" Music Genres
  • Listening and Analysis
ECTS-Points

10

Production and Distribution

Contents
  • Production
  • Publishing and Licensing
  • Distribution
ECTS-Points

11

Final Course Project

Contents
  • Scientific Research
  • Project Management and Presentation
  • Final Project
ECTS-Points

10

Master Thesis

ECTS-Points

20

Individual lecture titles may be subject to change.

Schedule Music Management 16

Module 1 

 October 09 - 13, 2023

Module 2 

November 27 - December 1, 2023

Module 3 

January 29 - February 2, 2024

Module 4 

March 4 - 8, 2024

Module 5 

April 15 - 19, 2024

Module 6 

June 10 - 14, 2024

Module 7 

October 7 - 11, 2024

Module 8 

November 25 - 29, 2024

Module 9 

January 27 - 31, 2025

Module 10 

March 3 - 7, 2025

Module 11 

April 7 - 11, 2025

Module 12

June 02 - 06, 2025

Module 13

September 15 - 19, 2025

 

Subject to changes

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