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University of Huddersfield

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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.
• 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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