Music (BA)

Entry Requirements

• A-level: AAB-BBB, with an A or a B in Music.
• WBQ: Pass in the core and grades AA or AB at A-level.
• Int Bacc: 32 points, including 6 at Higher Level Music.

Curriculum

Year 1

• The Full Works 
• Composition 1a
• Ethnomusicology I: Music in Human Life
• Practical Musicianship I
• Repertoire Studies
• A History of Popular Music
• Elements of Tonal Music I
• The History of Musical Instruments
• Elements of Tonal Music II 
• Composition 1b
• Fundamental Acoustics

Year 2

• Composition II
• Harmonic Practice 1750-1900
• Orchestration I
• Russian Music up to 1914
• Analysing 20th Century Music
• Music and Idea: from Enlightenment to Romanticism
• Performance Practice
• Formal Functions in the Classical Tradition
• Studio Techniques I: MIDI and Synthesisers
• French Music and National Identity 1848-1902
• Orchestration II
• British Music in the 20th Century
• Opera from Handel to Weber
• Introduction to Schenkerian Analysis
• Jazz in the Modern World
• Ethnomusicology II: Music in Cross-Culture Perspective
• Issues in Popular Music
• Practical Musicianship II
• Contrapuntal Practice 1750-1900)

Year 3 (Final Year)

• Dissertation (1-1)
• Project in Music Analysis (1-1)
• Project in Ethnomusicology (1-1)
• Practical Musicianship III (Ensemble)
• Practical Musicianship IV (Performance)
• Composition IV
• The Birth of Modernism
• Nineteenth Century Italian Opera
• The Romantic Opera and the New German School
• Studio Techniques II: Audio and Hard Disk Recording
• 20th Century Contrapuntal Practice
• The Birth of Modernism
• Innovation and Tradition in French Music
• Idea of Absolute Music
• Wagner and Romantic Opera
• Notation and Editing of Early Music