BA Music
Entry requirements
Scottish Higher: Standard Entry Requirement: ABBB to include English or a literary subject* Minimum Offer Entry Requirement: ABCC to include English or a literary subject* A level: BBC to include English or a literary subject* Irish Leaving Certificate: H2/H2/H2/H3 at Higher Level to include English or a literary subject* IB: Award of Diploma with 29 points overall including three Higher Level subjects at 6,5,4 to include English or a literary subject* at grade 5. T Level: Grade Merit T Level must be completed in a English/literary subject or an A Level in an English subject may be required. Please contact ugadmissions@napier.ac.uk to check if you meet the subject specific requirements. * Literary subjects accepted are: Modern Studies, History, Psychology, Sociology, RMPS, Theology, Media Studies, Philosophy, Politics, Geography, Latin, Classics, A Level Government and Politics, A Level Classical Civilisation, A Level Drama.
About this course
BA (Hons) in Music. Core topics include Systems Design, Research Methods, and Entrepreneurship. The programme includes an undergraduate module in Music Therapy and collaborative projects involving instrumentalists. Modules in Recording Studio Theory and Practice are offered across two levels of the course.
Modules
- Contextual Studies: Sampling Musical World
- Technologies: Making Music with Technology
- Introduction to Musicology
- Score Interpretation
- Organising Sound
- Performance Studies: Integrated Musicianship
- Introduction to Musicology 2
- Recording Studio Theory and Practice 1
- Contextual Studies 2: Music in its Social and Cultural Context
- Performance Studies: Interpretive Musicianship
- Composition, Signs, and Meaning
- Music Technology and Live Performance
- Composition and Orchestration
- Music Industries
- Applied Musicology
- Recording Studio Theory and Practice 2
- Lyrics: Words and Melody
- Music and Praxis
- Contextual Studies: Research in Music
- Interactive Music Environments and Systems Design
- Contexts of Music Education
- Contexts of Practical Musicianship: Technique and Applications
- Music and Modernisms 1890-1945
- Introduction to Music Therapy
- Lyrics: Narratives and Prosodies
- Music Software Applications
- Contexts of Practical Musicianship: Creative Parameters
- Music Industries: Entrepreneurship
- Major Music Project
- Contexts of Practical Musicianship: Identity, Persona and Promotion
- Practical Musicianship: Improvisation
- Music Research Project
- Contexts of Music Education: Project
- Contexts of Practical Musicianship: Live Performance
- Music Psychology
- Music and Modernisms 1945-1990