Music BA Honours
UCAS Code: W300
(3 Years)
Our degrees are divided into Stages. Each Stage lasts for an academic year and you need to complete modules totalling 120 credits by the end of each Stage.
Please be aware that programme modules do change and therefore may differ for your year of entry.
Stage 1
Compulsory modules
- MUS1012 Understanding Music History
- MUS1011 Understanding World Music
- MUS1020 Music Skills (Common Practice) with Aural
- MUS1022 Counterpoint and Voice Leading
- MUS1058 Performance Studies 1
- MUS1097 Creative Projects
Stage 2
Compulsory modules
Optional modules
You choose 80 credits from the following lists, including at least one historical/cultural module and one applied module. The historical/cultural modules offered change on a yearly basis and always include a range of topics, musical repertoires and musicological approaches. The options available in this current academic year are:
Historical/cultural modules
- MUS2065 Studying Vernacular Musics
- MUS2001 Early Music: Materials, Sources, Contexts
- MUS2002 Modern and Postmodern Musics
- MUS2088 Folk Music Studies: Resources and Research Materials
- MUS2066 Organology: Musical Instruments and Cultures
- MUS2087 Hearing the Individual in Traditional Music
Applied modules
- MUS2012 World Music in Practice I
- MUS2011 Techniques of Counterpoint
- MUS2041 Contemporary Compositional Techniques
- MUS2098 Noises, Sounds, and Gestures: Experimental Improvisation and Electroacoustic Composition
- MUS2045 Indian Music in Practice 1
- MUS2058 Performance Studies 2
- MUS2059 Contemporary Music Practice 1
- MUS3083 Conducting Studies
- MUS3095 Music Enterprise
- MUS3111 Teaching Music in Schools: Issues and Practice
- MUS3112 Tradition, Learning and Community: Folk and Traditional Music
Stage 3
Compulsory modules
Optional modules
You take one of the following optional modules (or pairs of modules):
- MUS3012 Major Specialist Study: Composition
- MUS3013 Major Specialist Study: Dissertation
- MUS3014 Major Specialist Study: Performance
- MUS3015 Major Specialist Study: Project OR
- MUS3023 Independent Composition Project in Post Vernacular Composition AND
- MUS3087 Contemporary Music Practice 2
You choose your remaining modules from the following lists, including at least one historical/cultural module and one applied module to bring your total credits to 120:
Historical/cultural modules
- MUS3001 Early Music: Materials, Sources, Contexts
- MUS3002 Modern and Postmodern Musics
- MUS3030 Twentieth Century Musics and Nationalisms
- MUS3032 Roots of Hip Hop
- MUS3106 Entrez dans la danse: Round Dancing in Brittany
Applied modules
- MUS3044 Indian Music in Practice 2
- MUS3011 World Music in Practice II
- MUS3083 Conducting Studies
- MUS3095 Music Enterprise
- MUS3111 Teaching Music in Schools: Issues and Practice
- MUS3112 Teaching, Learning and Community: Folk and Traditional Music
If you have achieved 60% or higher in Stage 2, you may replace 20 credits from the above list with 20 credits from the following list, provided the area of study (Dissertation, Composition, Performance or Project) is different to the Major Specialist Study:
