BA Music and English Literature
Entry requirements
A level: AAB (Music, and Creative Writing, English Language and Literature, or English Literature)
About this course
BA in English Language and Literature and Music, combining literary analysis with musical composition and performance. Core topics include research methods. The programme includes practical ensembles such as the Jazz Ensemble, Symphony Orchestra, and Gamelan Ensemble, and has established links with Welsh National Opera and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Cardiff.
Modules
- Reading Up Close
- Ways of Reading: Literature, Culture, Theory
- Writing at University and Beyond
- Composition 1A
- Techniques in Jazz and Popular Music
- Composition 1B
- Elements of Tonal Theory
- Writing About Music
- Music as Culture
- Case Studies in Music History
- Practical Portfolio I
- Practical Musicianship 1
- From Palaces to Proms: A History of Performance Practices (1700-1890)
- The Business of Music 1
- Composition 2A
- Orchestration
- Reading Film Sound
- Music in France Since 1900
- Formal Functions in the Classical Tradition
- Composition 2B
- Studio Techniques 1
- The Business of Music 2
- Practical Portfolio 2
- Practical Musicianship 2
- Seen and Unseen: Tracing the (In)visible in Film and Visual Culture
- Shakespeare's Worlds
- Twentieth-century Literature: Conflict, Crisis, Experimentation
- Feminisms
- Literature, Science and Environment
- Uncanny Encounters: Gothic and Culture from the 1760s to the Present
- Victorian Worlds: Forms of Transformation
- Contemporary Literature and Culture: States of Emergency
- Eighteenth-century and Romantic Poetry and Prose
- Britain and Beyond: Literatures of the Medieval World
- Race, Empire, Nation
- A History of Books from Parchment to Pixel
- Literature for All
- Literature and Science
- Dissertation
- Gender and Monstrosity: Late/Neo Victorian
- Utopia: Suffrage to Cyberpunk
- Postcolonial Theory
- Military Masculinities in the Long Nineteenth Century
- Island Stories: Literatures of the North Atlantic
- American Poetry after Modernism
- John Milton
- Apocalypse Then and Now
- Activist Poetry: Protest, Dissent, Resistance
- Visions of the Future: Climate Change & Fiction
- Romantic Circles: Collaboration, Radicalism and Creativity 1770-1830
- Shakespeare's Fractured Britain
- Visions of Past and Future in Children’s Books
- The Medieval Supernatural: Death, Demons and Ghosts
- Literature and Psychology: To Freud and Beyond
- 'And the Winner is...' The Role of Literary Prizes
- Cinema Across Asia
- Sound Encounters in the Medieval World
- Whodunnit? British Crime Fiction: Text, Screen and Sound
- Ensemble
- The Birth of Modernism
- Jazz, Culture and Politics
- Studio Techniques 2
- Women in 19th Century Music
- Beethoven: Style, Form and Culture
- Practical Portfolio 3
- Practical Musicianship 3
- Composition 3
- Extended Written Project