The Master of Music Practitioner Studies provides a secure foundation for students' research into their own practice as performers, teachers, creators, therapists and community musicians. The Master of Music Practitioner Studies is a flexible program, with four short residential courses. It is offered on a distance-learning basis to students anywhere in the world. This course addresses issues including how music is learned, how it affects those who listen to or participate in it, the role it plays in the human life cycle, and why music has significance for individuals and societies. These themes are related to music performance, music pedagogy, music medicine, social anthropology and psychology. The program combines distance learning as well as more traditional textbook reading, alongside four short residential which permit intensive practical work.