# Diploma in Music

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# Diploma in Music

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- Course code: D-MUSIC

This course is available to domestic students only

Duration

1 year full time

Mode (Location)

On campus (Parkville)

Intake

February, July\
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Fees

Commonwealth Supported Places (CSPs) available\
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Entry requirements

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Entry schemes

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### How to apply

## How to apply

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### Overview

**Please note that this course is only available to applicants who are currently admitted to a University of Melbourne degree.**

You’ve been accepted to your undergraduate degree at the University of Melbourne and chosen to study a concurrent diploma. Now all you need to do is apply.

#### APPLICATION DEADLINES

For more information please see the Students [concurrent diploma](https://students.unimelb.edu.au/your-course/concurrent-diplomas) web page.

#### APPLICATION CHECKLIST

- Apply online at [my.unimelb](https://my.unimelb.edu.au) using course code D-MUSIC
- Complete a [Course Planning Document/Map](https://students.unimelb.edu.au/your-course/concurrent-diplomas/apply-for-a-concurrent-diploma/course-map)
- Attend appointment with a [Stop 1 course planning advisor](https://students.unimelb.edu.au/myuniapps/student-services-appointments)
- Upload your approved course plan to your application
- If applying for Practical Music 1, prepare and submit your [recorded audition](https://vcamcm.slideroom.com/#/Login).

**Please note: you must apply and pass an audition to enter the practical music stream.**\
 Entry into the subject [MUSI10220 Practical Music 1](https://handbook.unimelb.edu.au/subjects/MUSI10220) is by audition only for Diploma in Music students. Note the close date for Practical Music 1 is earlier than for the diploma.

#### AUDITION REQUIREMENTS

- Applicants should prepare 2-3 pieces or movements of no longer than 15 minutes demonstrating their skill on the instrument they wish to study
- Select each piece from the Western Art Music repertoire (except for electric guitar and bass)
- Pieces should be of contrasting style, period and composer (e.g. works from the Baroque, Romantic and 20th century repertoires)
- Recordings must be made in one take, unedited video

**Percussion applicants should prepare the following (total duration not more than 20 minutes):**

one piece for snare drum; and- one piece for timpani; and
- one piece for 2-mallet keyboard; and
- one short piece, excerpt, etude, or warm-up exercise, for 4-mallet keyboard.

If access to all the required percussion instruments is not possible, please contact Brent Miller brent.miller@unimelb.edu.au.

Repertoire presented at AMEB Grade 7 standard for instrumentalists and Grade 5 for singers, generally makes for a competitive audition. These standards are given as an indication only, to guide your choice of audition repertoire. AMEB examinations are not a pre-requisite for entry to Practical Music 1.

#### PLACEMENT INTERVIEWS

All successful Wind, Brass, String and Percussion students must meet with the respective Head of Area prior to the start of Semester to discuss ensemble placements - this is an essential component to undertaking Practical Music 1. Similarly, successful Keyboard and Voice students will need new student interviews. The Heads of Instrument Areas are listed on our [Faculty website](https://mcm.unimelb.edu.au/instrument-areas), and you will be contacted only after receipt of your successful audition notification regarding this requirement. [Submit audition application via SlideRoom](https://vcamcm.slideroom.com/#/Login). There are no additional costs in submitting an application.

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