Objectives
This course develops key critical and analytical skills in the study of music as a vibrant form of social and cultural practice, and offers the opportunity to focus on specific topics within the subject, such as performance, historical musicology, gender and politics, analysis, and composition. In the third year you can choose to specialise, for example, by opting to write a dissertation, working for a composition portfolio or offering two performance recitals.
Course description
BA Music
Programme
Year one
Your understanding of the discipline is consolidated and deepened with core courses in Interpreting Tonal Music, Opera, Introduction to Early Music, Innovation in Twentieth-Century Music, and Critical Thinking. There is the option of taking a Performance module.
Year two
The emphasis in years two and three is on choice. You can develop or extend your expertise by choosing from some of the following modules: Composition, Performance, Critical Thinking, Narrative and Emotion, Opera and Politics, Creative Orchestration, Notation and Transcription, Twentieth-Century Studies, Performance and Performers, Beethoven and Schubert, Classical Music and Society after 1945, Film Music, Jazz, Medieval Studies, Romanticism, and Popular Music.
Year three
The final year allows you to specialise even further, by writing a dissertation on a subject of your choice, or by taking double modules in Performance or Composition. You can also take additional modules in areas such as Analysis, Editing, Sound Technology and Recording, Popular Music in the Cinema, the String Quartet, Gender and Culture, Messiaen, and Scandinavian Music.
