BA English and Music
Entry requirements
A level: AAB (specific subject requirements) BTEC: We will consider the level 3 QCF BTEC at Subsidiary Diploma level and above in combination with other qualifications. Please contact the Admissions Office for more information. IB: 35 points overall with 16 at Higher Level including 6 in English at Higher Level and 5 in Music at Higher Level
About this course
BA in English and Music, an English and Music degree exploring literature, culture, performance, and historical and contemporary musical practices. The final year includes a Final Year Project. The first year introduces foundational subjects through Reading Between the Lines, Literature, Culture and Critique, Music and Society, and Materials of Music. The second year continues with modules such as Writing Environments: Literature, Nature, Culture, Body Language: Literature and Embodiment, Researching Music, and Life, Love and Death from Chaucer to Marlowe. Optional choices in the final year allow specialisation in subjects such as Analysing Music, The Supernatural in Opera, Shakespeare, and Crime Fiction Stylistics: Crossing Languages, Culture, Media.
Modules
- Reading Between the Lines
- Literature, Culture and Critique
- Music and Society
- Materials of Music
- Collaborative Performance
- Composition
- Film Music
- The Music Industries
- Creating Music
- Performance Studies
- Studio Recording
- Talking About Pop Music
- Modern Fictions in English
- Race, Writing, Decolonization
- Drama: Text and Performance
- Poetry: Reading & Interpretation
- Writing Environments: Literature, Nature, Culture
- Body Language: Literature and Embodiment
- Researching Music
- Life, Love and Death from Chaucer to Marlowe
- Renaissance Literature
- Modern Literature
- Postcolonial Literature
- The World Before Us: Literature 1660-1830
- Other Voices: Rethinking Nineteenth-Century Literature
- American Words, American Worlds
- Contemporary Literature
- Notations of Music
- Creating and Producing Music for Screen Media
- Marketing for Musicians
- Psychology of Listening and Performance
- Music and Politics
- Cultures of Performance
- Aesthetics and Criticism
- Leading an Ensemble
- Collaborative Performance
- Applied Music Technology
- Sound and Media
- Musical Meaning
- Creating Music
- Performance
- Opera North: Opera in Practice
- Final Year Project
- Analysing Music
- The Supernatural in Opera
- Music and Postcolonial Politics
- Music as Performance: People, Bodies and Instruments
- Composition
- Ensemble Performance
- Performance
- Bowie, Reading, Writing
- Crime Fiction Stylistics: Crossing Languages, Culture, Media
- Digital Discourse: language, social media, AI
- Fictions of the End: Apocalypse and After
- Global African Writing
- Home Bodies: Companion Animals in Contemporary Literature
- Language of the Media
- Postcolonial London
- Refugee Narratives
- Sex and Suffering in the Eighteenth-Century Novel
- Shakespeare
- Telling Lives: Reading and Writing Family Memoir