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Music BMus(Hons)

University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom
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Course Overview

Our Music degree will allow you to develop a wide range of creative abilities, whilst deepening your understanding of music and how it works. Youll be able to explore different styles, genres, and traditions, develop as a performer, and create your own music. You'll choose from a range of modules on subjects like popular music, experimental music, film and stage music, world music, music analysis, and early music, and can choose to keep your music studies broad or to specialize as a composer, musicologist, or performer. Youll study in state-of-the-art professional-standard facilities, with access to a range of rehearsal spaces, industry-standard recording studios, two dedicated concert halls, and a large selection of equipment and instruments for you to use. Youll work with experienced tutors, internationally recognized researchers, and visiting industry professionals, including our team of leading instrumental and vocal teachers.

General Eligibility

A Level - BBB-BBC

BTEC - DDM-DMM

Part Time Work Details

20 Hours of Work permit weekly for international students.

What You'll Study

1 Year 1

Core modules:

  • Performance Skills 1

  • Introduction to Music Research

  • Introduction to Analysis

  • Composition 1

Option modules:

Choose one from a list which may include:

  • Technology for Music

  • Desktop Music Production 1

Plus one from a list which may include:

  • Solo Performance 1

  • Stylistic Composition

  • Songwriting 1

2 Year 2

Option modules:

Choose at least two from a list which may include:

  • Scoring the Silver Screen: The Musicology of Film and Television

  • Music On Stage: Opera and Musical Theatre from Orfeo to Matilda (Year 2)

  • Singers and their Songs: Music, text and Performance Before 1600 (Year 2)

  • Popular Music Studies

  • Historical Performance (Year 2)

  • Experimental Music (Year 2)

  • Music In Vienna 1770-1830 (Year 2)

  • Explorations in World Musics (Year 2)

  • Empirical Musicologies: Data-Driven Approaches to Musical Study (Year 2)

Plus choose up to four from a list which may include-

  • Composition 2

  • Techniques of Music Analysis (Year 2)

  • Desktop Music Production 2

  • Solo Performance 2

  • Performance Skills 2 (Major)

  • Performance Skills 2

  • Scoring and Arranging for Brass Band and Symphonic Wind Orchestra

  • Orchestration (Year 2)

  • Music in Educational Contexts

3 Year 3 – optional placement year

Placement Year

4 Year 4

Core modules:

  • Applied Music Research: Investigating Culture and Creativity

  • Work and Professional Practice in Music

Option modules:

Choose up to four from a list which may include:

  • Final Year Project

  • Music On Stage: Opera and Musical Theatre from Orfeo to Matilda 2 (Final Year)

  • Singers and their Songs: Music, text and Performance Before 1600 (Final Year)

  • Advanced Composition

  • Music in the 21st Century

  • Composition Practice

  • Music, Gender and Identity

  • Experimental Music (Final Year)

  • Techniques of Music Analysis (Final Year)

  • Explorations in World Musics (Final Year)

  • Solo Performance 3

  • Performance Skills 3 (Major)

  • Performance Skills 3

  • Orchestration (Final Year)

  • Music in Vienna 1770-1830 (Final Year)

  • Historical Performance (Final Year)

  • Composing Music for Film and Videogames B

  • Empirical Musicologies: Data-Driven Approaches to Musical Study (Final Year)

Language Requirement

  • IELTS6.0
  • TOEFL78
  • PTE58
  • Duolingo79

The minimum for IELTS is 6.0 overall with no element lower than 5.5, or equivalent.

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