Course Content
Year 1
- Performance Skills 1
- Introduction to Music Research
- Introduction to Analysis
- Composition 1
Final Year
- Applied Music Research: Investigating Culture and Creativity
- Work and Professional Practice in Music
Year 1
Choose one from a list which may include:
- Technology for Music
- Desktop Music Production 1
Plus one from a list which may include:
- Solo Performance 1
- Stylistic Composition
- Songwriting 1
Year 2
Choose at least two from a list which may include:
- Scoring the Silver Screen: The Musicology of Film and Television
- Music On Stage: Opera and Musical Theatre from Orfeo to Matilda (Year 2)
- Singers and their Songs: Music, text and Performance Before 1600 (Year 2)
- Popular Music Studies
- Historical Performance (Year 2)
- Experimental Music (Year 2)
- Music In Vienna 1770-1830 (Year 2)
- Explorations in World Musics (Year 2)
- Empirical Musicologies: Data-Driven Approaches to Musical Study (Year 2)
Plus choose up to four from a list which may include-
- Composition 2
- Techniques of Music Analysis (Year 2)
- Desktop Music Production 2
- Solo Performance 2
- Performance Skills 2 (Major)
- Performance Skills 2
- Scoring and Arranging for Brass Band and Symphonic Wind Orchestra
- Orchestration (Year 2)
- Music in Educational Contexts
Year 3
- optional one-year (48 weeks) work placement after the second year can be completed in the UK or abroad
Final Year
Choose up to four from a list which may include:
- Final Year Project
- Music On Stage: Opera and Musical Theatre from Orfeo to Matilda 2 (Final Year)
- Singers and their Songs: Music, text and Performance Before 1600 (Final Year)
- Advanced Composition
- Music in the 21st Century
- Composition Practice
- Music, Gender and Identity
- Experimental Music (Final Year)
- Techniques of Music Analysis (Final Year)
- Explorations in World Musics (Final Year)
- Solo Performance 3
- Studies in Performance
- Performance Skills 3 (Major)
- Performance Skills 3
- Orchestration (Final Year)
- Music in Vienna 1770-1830 (Final Year)
- Historical Performance (Final Year)
- Composing Music for Film and Videogames B
- Empirical Musicologies: Data-Driven Approaches to Musical Study (Final Year)
