BMus Music
Entry requirements
A Level: AAB to include a B in A level Music. See below for full information.. IB: 6,6,5 32 points overall (to include 5 in HL Music). See below for full information.. BTEC: BTEC Extended Diploma: DDM, plus a B in Music. See below for full information.
About this course
Bachelor of Music in Music BMus, a music degree exploring musicology, performance, and composition. Core topics include Research Methods and Fieldwork. Students complete independent study options in their final year through modules such as Composition (Independent Study), Musicology Dissertation (Independent Study), and Solo Performance (Independent Study). The first year covers foundational concepts through compulsory modules such as Music and Ideas I, Music and its Cultures I, Solo Performance, and Techniques of Tonal Music 1. The second year builds proficiency with modules like Analysis of Music, Critical Musicology, Conducting I, and Orchestration I. In the final year, students select advanced and specialised options spanning subjects such as Advanced Jazz Composition, An Introduction to Music Therapy, Arts Management in Practice, and Electronic Music Studies.
Modules
- Music and Ideas I
- Music and Ideas II
- Music and its Cultures I
- Music and its Cultures II
- Solo Performance
- Techniques of Tonal Music 1
- Techniques of Tonal Music 2
- Composing with Technology (semester 1)
- Composing with Technology (semester 2)
- Instrumental Composition (semester 1)
- Instrumental Composition (semester 2)
- Analysis of Music
- Critical Musicology
- Conducting I
- Conducting II
- Orchestration I
- Orchestration II
- Advanced Performance Skills
- British Music Renaissance 1880 - 1914
- Film Music Techniques and History
- Free Composition
- From Glinka to Glazunov
- Introduction to Jazz Styles: 1920 to 1980
- Music Festivals
- Music and Emotion
- Music and Gender
- Music for Games
- Music, Nations and Nationalism 1789 - 1945
- Solo Performance
- The Broadway Musical from Show Boat to Sondheim
- The Hybrid Sound Lab: Acoustic and Electronic Composition
- The Symphony: Prestige and Politics
- Traditional Music in Britain and Ireland
- Composition (Independent Study)
- Musicology Dissertation (Independent Study)
- Solo Performance (Independent Study)
- Special Subject Composition
- Special Subject Musicology
- Special Subject Solo Performance
- Composing for the Creative Industries A
- Composing for the Creative Industries B
- Dramatic Italian Vocal Music: Monteverdi & His Contemporaries
- Advanced Jazz Composition
- Advanced Performance Skills
- An Introduction to Music Therapy
- Arts Management in Practice
- Baroque Analysis
- Beethoven’s Late Style
- Black Music in Britain
- Classical Composition
- Composing for Voice
- Eighteenth Century Counterpoint
- Electronic Music Studies
- Experimental Musics
- Fieldwork Methods
- Gustav Mahler: The Philosophy of Music
- Historically Informed Performance
- Introduction to Sound Recording A
- Introduction to Sound Recording B
- Landscape, Counterpoint and Morality: The British Symphony, 1880–1960
- Love, Death, Religion and Music in the Renaissance
- Music Cognition
- Music Education
- Music in the Weimar Republic and Third Reich
- Sonic Alchemy: Live Electronic and Mixed Music Ensemble
- Sounding Image
- The Blues
- The Sixties
- The Wagner Brand
- Tonality: An Introduction
- The Singers’ Survival Guide: the effects of commercial opera on singing culture in the Later Baroque Period
- Professional Skills
- Professional Skills - Freelance