BMus (Hons) Music

BMus (Hons) Music

Typical Entry Requirements:A level grades ABB (320 points)

Required Subjects: A level Music grade A (or equivalent) required. Normally, applicants taking performance will be required to have achieved grade 7 or 8 ABRSM (or equivalent) in their primary instrument.

English Language Requirements: An IELTS score of 6.5 or equivalent for non-native-English-speaking applicants.

Our Music programmes reflect the diversity of contemporary musical experience, the pluralism of postmodern thinking about music, and the richly varied profile of music as a performance art in today’s world. The three-year BMus programme explores musical repertoires past and present through integrated studies in classical/popular musicology, composition, and performance, with emphases on cultural issues, theory and analysis, music technology and practice-based learning. The four-year BMus programme combines these elements with core components in arts management issues, cultural policy-making, and a professional placement year.

We are distinctive in pursuing all these fields in our teaching and research, resulting in a highly stimulating environment for undergraduate musicians as scholars, performers, composers and future decision-makers in the arts.
We aim to provide you with opportunities to interact with as wide a range of music and music-making as possible. You will gain insight into how you currently operate and how you might wish to develop as a musician. We also ensure your learning remains relevant to the contemporary world.

Performance, composition and the academic study of music have equal status in our Department, so that our programmes are well suited to those aspiring to a professional career in any area of the music industry. The range of subjects is especially broad. Western music from ancient times to the present day forms the backbone of historical and analytical studies, but modules in popular and non-Western music, music technology, film music and jazz are also available. In your second and final years you may specialise in performance, composition, musicology or conducting.

The four-year programme uniquely offers a professional training year, and is designed for students who wish to gain experience in music management or administration.

Our programmes will offer you a high standard of academic and instrumental/vocal tuition. You will participate in a thriving performance environment and have opportunities to work with our artists in residence.

We have excellent performance and learning facilities and you will be able to discuss the latest ideas with visiting leading composers and scholars.

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