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Music at Birmingham has evolved throughout the past century to give you unparalleled facilities, opportunities and student experience - blending tradition with fearless exploration of contemporary developments.
Your undergraduate Music degree will encompass musicology, performance and composition, with opportunities to specialise in one of these disciplines. In addition, all undergraduate students receive a scholarship for lessons for up to two instruments (including voice) at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire or through the Centre for Early Music Performance and Research.
Three GCE A levels (including International A Levels)
The International Baccalaureate Diploma
SQA Highers and Advanced Highers (many programmes will accept Highers without additional Advanced Highers)
The Cambridge Pre-U (minimum three separate subjects)
A mix of A levels and Cambridge Pre-U subjects (minimum three in total)
The Irish Leaving Certificate Higher Level
The European Baccalaureate
Welsh Baccalaureate Advanced Skills Challenge Certificate (the grade required will be the same as from an A level and must be combined with 2 A levels.)
20 Hours of Work permit weekly for international students.
Compulsory modules
Music and its Cultures I ( 20 credits) and II (20 credits)
Music and Ideas I (10 credits) and II (10 credits)
Tonal Harmony and Counterpoint I (10 credits) and II (10 credits)
Solo Performance (20 credits)
Paper Composition (10 credits)
Studio Composition (10 credits)
Critical Musicology (20 credits)
Analysis of Music (20 credits)
You can apply to study abroad for a year in an approved university around the world. If you achieve a grade of 2.1 or above in your first year then you will be invited to apply for a Year Abroad in your second year. If your application is successful, you will go abroad in your third year and return to us for your final year. Find out more.
Compulsory module
Students may take two Independent Study modules OR one Special Subject module.
Students may also take 60 credits of independent study if they wish (one Special Subject and one Independent Study module). NB You may not take the same Special Subject and Independent Study other than Musicology If Special Subject and Independent Study are taken in Musicology, topics must be well contrasted.
Independent Study in Musicology, Studio Composition or Paper Composition (20 or 40 credits)
In order to undertake a programme of study here at the University, you will need to demonstrate that you have a suitable level of English proficiency.
You can demonstrate your level of English with IELTS/TOEFL/PTE or alternative qualifications. The sections below will tell you what grades you need in these qualifications for the subject area you want to study.
English tests/qualifications normally need to have been taken within two years of the start date of your programme.
For those joining us for 2022, we will accept the following additional tests as evidence of English language proficiency:
TOEFL Home Edition
IELTs Online
PTE Academic Online
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