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    Programme objective and career opportunities

    Educational objectives.

    The degree programme will help you to expand, consolidate and professionalize your music theory skills and your artistic, intellectual and social potential. You will be capable of independently describing and depicting the history of composition through to the present day. You will have developed a critical and artistic understanding of theory and the ability to make practical use of the piano. In an artistic, education policy and creative industry landscape that is changing rapidly, you will be capable of putting independent ideas and artistic approaches and methods to use in unconventional ways and expanding your expertise.

    Degree title:

    Master of Arts ZHdK in Composition and Theory, Major in Theory

    Degree title:
    Master of Arts ZHdK in Composition and Theory with a Major in Theory

    Potential areas of employment.

    Music theorists are practical all-rounders and experts at the same time. They have their own independent, analytical and creative approach to music and as such make ideal candidates for numerous professional fields: in arrangement/composition, ensemble conducting of historical and new music, accompaniment, activities in libraries and publishing work within the areas of notation, reconstruction and editing; holding composition or listening courses, etc.