BMus Music

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BMus Music

  • Objectives This course offers a balance between traditional academic study and the practical work offered by conservatoires. You will study musicology, composition, technology for music, theory and analysis and one optional subject from: Performance, Popular Music in Context or Music in the Computer Age. After that, you will be able to develop a specialism as a composer, performer, or musicologist, or maintain a broad range of subjects, including advanced theory and analysis, or practical topics such as conducting, scoring and arranging and improvisation.
  • Entry requirements Entry Requirements Typically 280-320 points including C in A level Music plus six further units of study (or equivalent). Candidates intending to offer instrumental or vocal performance must have reached at least the Grade 8 standard of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music at entry.
  • Academic title BMus Music
  • Course description Course Structure

    Year 1

    Musicology 1
    Composition
    Technology for Music
    Counterpoint, Harmony and Aural
    Plus one chosen from:
    Performance 1A/B
    Popular Music in Context
    Music in the Computer Age

    Year 2

    Musicology 2
    options drawn from
    Renaissance Music
    Baroque Music
    Classical Music
    Romantic Music

    Late 19th and Early 20th Century Music
    Music since 1945
    Experimental Music
    The Mozart-Da Ponte Operas
    Music and Gender
    Improvisation and the Jazz Ensemble
    Editing and Transcription
    Historical Performance
    Stylistic Composition
    The Composer as Performer
    Music in England and France 900-1450

    Plus one or two core areas chosen from
    Performance
    Composition
    Computer Composition

    Plus a choice of up to three optional modules chosen from
    Theory and Analysis 2
    Scoring and Arranging for Brass Band
    Instrumentation
    Conducting
    Harpsichord Class 1
    Directed Ensembles 1
    Improvisation
    Music and the Moving Image
    Electroacoustic Music in Context

    Year 3

    Musicology 3

    options drawn from

    Renaissance Music
    Baroque Music
    Classical Music
    Romantic Music

    Late 19th and Early 20th Century Music
    Music since 1945 or Music in an Urban Centre

    Plus one core subject at major or minor level chosen from:

    Performance
    Composition
    Musicology
    Computer Composition


    Plus one from Studies in

    Performance
    Composition
    Musicology
    Electroacoustic Music


    Plus a choice of up to three optional modules chosen from

    Music in an Urban Centre
    Opera Class
    Music in the Community
    Theory and Analysis 3
    Work and Professional Practice
    Music, Media and Markets
    Research Project
    Composition
    Performance
    Computer Composition
    Chamber Music
    Project
    Directed Ensembles 2
    Harpsichord Class 2

    Also, Music with History BA, Music with a Modern Language BA, Music with Drama BA, Music with English BA.
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