BA Music
Entry requirements
A level: AAB including A in Music If you are not taking A level Music we will accept AAB in three A Levels plus ABRSM or Trinity Grade 5 Theory and Grade 8 Performance. Other equivalent qualifications and exam boards may be considered on a case by case basis. IB: 35 points including 6 in Music at Higher Level BTEC: DDD in Music. If you are taking a BTEC in a different subject, an additional A Level or equivalent qualification in Music will be required.
About this course
BA (Hons) Music, a music degree exploring academic, historical and practical dimensions of the discipline. Core topics include Critical & Analytical Thinking, Ethics & Professional Practice. The curriculum integrates practical performance, musicology, analysis, and sound technology. The first year introduces foundational concepts through compulsory modules such as Core Skills for Musical Study, Listen to This!: Critical Approaches to Music 1, Creative and Professional Practice 1, and Analyse This!: Critical Approaches to Music 2, alongside various optional choices. The second year continues with compulsory study in Critical Thinking and Listening and Creative and Professional Practice 2, paired with options covering history, conducting, and composition. The final year involves advanced compulsory modules including Extended Recital, Extended Composition Folio, Extended Solo Project, and Creative and Professional Practice 3. Students can further tailor their studies through numerous optional modules spanning specialized repertoire, advanced composition, and media music, with independent projects forming a central component of the final stage.
Modules
- Core Skills for Musical Study
- Listen to This!: Critical Approaches to Music 1
- Creative and Professional Practice 1
- Analyse This!: Critical Approaches to Music 2
- Composition 1
- Developing Themes: Music in the Long Nineteenth Century
- Instrumental Music Education
- Introduction to the Psychology of Music
- Musicians' Health and Wellness
- Music’s Meanings
- Performance and Context
- The Body in Musical Performance
- Women Making Music
- Critical Thinking and Listening
- Creative and Professional Practice 2
- Chamber Music
- Conducting
- ‘Dancing about Architecture’: Writing about Music
- History of African American Music
- Playing with the Past
- Remix
- Sound Studies
- The Uses of Tonality
- Writing and Producing Songs
- Extended Recital
- Extended Composition Folio
- Extended Solo Project
- Creative and Professional Practice 3
- Recital
- Composition Folio
- Solo Project
- Advanced Composition
- Analysing Classical Sonatas
- History of Film Music
- Instrumental / Orchestration, or, The Use of Timbre
- Music Education and Social Justice
- Musical Borrowing
- Solo Voice Ensemble Singing
- Sonic Fictions: Technology, Culture & the Future of Music