怀卡托音乐艺术博士专注于表演和研究。您将沉浸在具有艺术和创造力完整性的音乐作品中。您对这些作品的表演将得到一份书面论文的支持，该论文阐明了您自己的独立研究。如果您对音乐表演充满热情，‖音乐艺术博士（DMA）是您的博士学位。如果您对音乐的兴趣更多在作曲领域
The Doctor of Musical Arts at Waikato focuses on both performance and research. You'll be immersed in musical works that have artistic and creative integrity. Your performance of these works will be backed up by a written thesis that sets out your own independent research.<br><br>If you're passionate about musical performance the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) is the doctoral degree for you. If your interests relating to music are more in the areas of composition, research-based musicology, multimedia work, music technology or electroacoustic music, then consider enrolling in the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) instead.<br><br>While working towards your DMA at Waikato, you'll spend half your time doing performances based on your research, and the other half putting your written thesis together. You'll perform every week, and during these performances you'll demonstrate to your supervisor what you've learned from your research. At Waikato, your DMA supervisors are leading musicians and you'll be able to use a state-of-the art performing arts venue for your practical lessons.<br><br>The Waikato DMA sets you up with the skills you'll need to turn your passion for musical performance into a career, whether that be as a solo artist, a chamber or orchestral musician, an accompanist, recording artist or repetiteur. You might prefer to use the skills you've learned in a different way, and work in either radio or print music journalism. You might also want to share what you have learned during your DMA and take on a teaching role, either as a performer-academic working in the tertiary area or as an instrument or vocal teacher.<br><br>You'll be able to choose a research topic that interests you. Topics previously chosen by students completing a DMA include those focusing on particular composers (such as New Zealand cellist and composer Arnold Trowell and New Zealand composer John Ritchie), a particular aspect of musical composition in performance (such as J.S. Bach's use of the variation form in treating Lutheran chorales), musical education (such as the application of ICT in the music classroom: Tools and trends in the New Zealand secondary classroom from 2007-2009), specific cultural music traditions (such as Kngitanga and Music: An examination of repertoire and composition of Mori waiata and puoro relating to the Kngitanga (King Movement) from 1912 to 2008), and using technology in music (such as a mouse driven interface for virtual stringed instrument controller).