Thinking and acting as a cultural critic, that is to say applying a reflective and critical approach to society through its past and present sound, musical and cultural output, is the main objective which students of the Master Degree in Archaeology and History of Art: Musicology are called upon to achieve. In this way, at the end of their programme, the students will have an active and integrated expert understanding of a corpus of disciplinary and multidisciplinary knowledge (awareness, terminology, issues, methods, conceptual frameworks) which is indispensable in order to become expert in the different fields of musicology. The students can study and analyse a work, a corpus, or a complex issue by calling upon musicological methodologies and improving their critical eye. Students can conduct original and individual research dealing with a significant and varied volume of data in accordance with a systematic and rigorous approach, demonstrating independence in managing a research project and an individual project, and more generally by keeping their knowledge updated. In this way, the CP ARKE/MUSI thereby wishes to train intellectuals in the field of humanities who are actors open to the musical, cultural and socio-professional worlds who are capable of understanding those worlds, providing others the keys to that understanding and integrating into them easily and efficiently.
On successful completion of this programme, each student is able to :
On successful completion of this programme, each student is able to :
1. Think and act as a cultural critic: apply a reflective and critical approach to society through its past and present sound, music and cultural output
2. Mastery of knowledge: attain an active and integrated expert understanding of a select corpus of disciplinary and multidisciplinary knowledge (awareness, terminology, issues, methods, conceptual frameworks) which is indispensable in order to become an expert in the different fields of musicology.
3. Apply disciplinary methodologies: study and analyse a work or an object, a corpus or a complex issue by calling upon musicology methodologies and improving their critical eye.
4. Carry out research using a scientific approach: successfully complete an original, individual research assignment dealing with a significant and varied quantity of data, using a rigorous and systematic approach.
5. Independently manage their work and developmental path: demonstrate independence in managing a research project and an individual project, and more generally by keeping their knowledge updated.
6. Be receptive to the cultural and socio-professional world: Understand the cultural and socio-professional worlds and integrate into them easily and efficiently.
7. If the art and music elective is chosen: this elective centres upon the course’s focus, offering the students a choice of courses allowing them to construct bridges between music and the visual arts. Also, at the end of the art and music elective, the students will have acquired specific theoretical, practical and technical knowledge in the field thanks to the different specialist courses (history of art criticism, history of humanism, art and literature, Bible and culture, art and new media, typology and permanency in mythical fantasy, etc.). As a result of having completed an internship, students will have acquired useful experience of the professional world and practices in the field.
8. If the Management and Music professional focus course is chosen: this professional focus course offers students training which is centred on professions in music. The strong points of this professional focus course are musical management and criticism. It is organised in conjunction with the UCL communication faculty and the IHECS (Institut des Hautes Etudes en Communication Sociale, Brussels). Also, at the end of the Management and Music professional focus course, students will have acquired specific theoretical, practical and technical knowledge in the field thanks to the different specialist courses (analysis of media productions, communication with cultural bodies, sound production, events, European cultural networks, artistic management and criticism, etc.). As a result of having completed an internship, students will have acquired useful experience of the professional world and practices in the field.
9. If the Music and Musicology professional focus course is chosen: this professional focus course offers students the option to follow practical studies in music which relate to interpretation (instrument, voice) or writing (composition, analysis, etc.). This professional focus course is organised in conjunction with theIMEP (Institut Supérieur de Musique et de Pédagogie). Also, at the end of the Music and Musicology professional focus course, students will have acquired specific theoretical, practical and technical knowledge in the field thanks to the different specialist courses (analysis and writing, contemporary language training, computer-assisted music, instrumental acoustics and fracturing, etc.). As a result of having completed an internship, students will have acquired useful experience of the professional world and practices in the field. spécialisée en musique-musicologie
10. If the Interuniversity professional focus course is chosen: This professional focus course offers students the option to study musicology courses in the other two Francophone universities which offer a Master in Archaeology and History of Art: Musicology. At the end of this interdisciplinary professional focus course, students will be able to benefit from expertise which differs from that available in their own university. The complementary nature of this course will enable students to acquire more specialist knowledge in certain specific fields.