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BMus Music
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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.
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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.
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Academic title
BMus Music
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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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