Hi and welcome to the MMus Popular Music Performance programme at ICMP! 

I’m Terrence Gregory, your MMus programme leader, and I’'m thrilled that you’ve accepted your place here with us. 

The ICMP team, tutors and I look forward to working with you, helping you become the musician you aspire to be, and reinforcing and elevating the foundations of your professional career in music. 

I’ve put together a list of resources for you to consider before joining us in September, from equipment lists to recommended reading. You can find this below. 

Have a great summer, and I look forward to meeting you in person soon... 

All the best, 

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Terry Gregory
Programme Leader, MMus Popular Music Performance

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About your MMus Popular Music Performance Degree

The ICMP MMus in Popular Music Performance degree is the perfect course for talented musicians like you who are looking to enhance their studies following an undergraduate music degree. 

This highly personalised and advanced programme combines top-level performance skills, expert musicianship, ensemble studies, instrumental techniques, recording studies and one-to-one instrumental lessons, with rigorous scholarship, innovative academic theory, research, critical reasoning and analysis. 

Building on the foundation of your existing knowledge, skills and experience, this MMus programme will challenge you to move out of your comfort zone while broadening and deepening your musical competency and literacy. You’ll embark on a personal journey that will change the way you see yourself both as a creative musician and as a person, as you continue to invest in yourself and your future in music. 

You will also engage in a range of practical activities, covering the languages of music and scholarship, with plenty of opportunities to play, work, experiment, collaborate, make discoveries, take risks, and build your network of professional industry contacts. 

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Equipment Checklist

Essential​

  • Headphones 
  • Pens, pencils and notebooks 
  • Your instrument 
  • Leads and tuner (guitar/bass)  
  • Sticks, brushes, mallets (drums) 
  • Earplugs 
  • External hard drive or USB drive 
  • Internet access 

Recommended Equipment 

  • A laptop, preferably a MacBook 
  • SM58 microphone (or equivalent) and XLR lead 
  • Sibelius or MuseScore (notation software)  
  • Logic Pro X 
  • An audio interface  

Don’t forget, as an ICMP student you’ll have access to exclusive discounts from leading music manufacturers, so if you’re thinking of buying new gear (from computers to instruments), it’s worth waiting until you start with us. 

 

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Have you confirmed your student finance yet?

Find out more

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Recommended Reading

Books

  • Nelson, R. (2013) Practice as research in the arts. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 
  • Elliot, D. (1995) Music matters. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 
  • Hallam, S. and Gaunt, H. (2012) Preparing for Success: A practical guide for young musicians. London: Institute of Education. 
  • Lee, S. (2017) Scholarly research for musicians. London: Routledge. 

We look forward to meeting you in September... not long now!