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Music BA Honours (W300)
Bachelor's degree
In Newcastle Upon Tyne ()
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
Develop into an accomplished musician with a broad base of musical and academic training on this rewarding three-year degree.
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Subjects
- IT
- Music
- Performance
- Composition
- Skills and Training
- Management
- IT Management
- Musical
- Project
- Music Theory
Course programme
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
- MUS1058 Performance Studies 1
- MUS1020 Music Theory: Technique and Textures in Common Practice
You take two of the following modules:
- MUS1011 Understanding World Music
- MUS1014 Introduction to Popular Music Studies
- MUS1096 The Traditions of These Islands
You also take one of the following modules:
- MUS1010 Music Theory: Technique and Practice in Studio Production
- MUS1050 Folk and Traditional Textures and Techniques
You choose at least one module from the following list:
- MUS2019 Case Studies in Music Analysis
- MUS2018 Contemporary Musical Materials
- MUS2050 Music Theory 2: Stylistic Analysis and Composition in Folk and Modal Musics
You choose at least two modules from the following list:
- MUS2004 Themes in Musical Modernism
- MUS2081 Music of the Southern States
- MUS2065 Issues in Popular Music Culture
- MUS2088 Folk Music Studies: Resources and Research Materials
- MUS2054 Music and Cultural Theory
- MUS2060 Ethnomusicology
- MUS2075 Baroque Music
You choose at least one module from the following list:
- MUS2007 Early Music in Practice
- MUS2045 Indian Music in Practice
- MUS2017 Historic Techniques of Composition
- MUS2041 Approaches to Notated Contemporary Composition
- MUS2058 Performance Studies 2
- MUS2067 Postvernacular Composition: Commercial Recording as Critical Practice
- MUS2073 New Music in Practice
- MUS2092 Ensemble 2
- MUS2094 Additional Performance Studies (Folk and Traditional Music) 2
You then choose any other two modules from the lists above to make your credits total 120.
Intercalating YearIf you wish to spend a year abroad as part of your degree, you can do so in consultation with and at the discretion of the Degree Programme Director in one of our partner institutions. This is subject to a threshold of at least 60% in the first three semesters of study. If you follow this route, you will transfer to BMus (Hons) Music, W304. The Degree Programme Director will confirm the transfer in each case.
Stage 3 Optional modulesYou will take one of the following Major Specialist Study modules:
- MUS3012 Major Specialist Study: Composition
- MUS3013 Major Specialist Study: Dissertation
- MUS3014 Major Specialist Study: Performance
- MUS3015 Major Specialist Study: Project
You may also opt for a Minor Specialist Study, which must be in a subject area that is substantially different to your Major Specialist Study. You may wish to further develop the various "in Practice" ensemble options from stage 2 as either a specialist study performance or project.
- MUS3016 Minor Specialist Study: Composition
- MUS3017 Minor Specialist Study: Dissertation
- MUS3018 Minor Specialist Study: Performance
- MUS3019 Minor Specialist Study: Project
You choose further optional modules from the list below, totalling 120 credits:
- MUS3024 Music and AIDS
- MUS3026 Music in Early Modern England
- MUS3028 Songs and Struggle
- MUS3029 Popular Music, Politics and Policy
- MUS3030 Twentieth Century Musics and Nationalisms
- MUS3033 Advanced Studies in Salsa Performance
- MUS3093 Folk Ensemble 3
- MUS3095 Music Enterprise
- MUS3111 Teaching Music in Schools; Socio-Cultural Contexts and Approaches to Practice
Careers Music careers
The employability of our graduates is really important to us and you will have access to lots of opportunities to boost your personal and professional development. For example:
- Our student-led Summer Music Festival gives you real world experience of event management and the opportunity to showcase your classical music performance skills in front of a paying audience
- Our music enterprise option provides you with the knowledge you need to start a business in the cultural sector
Our degrees teach you how to be confident, practical, hard working and dedicated. Our graduates go on to careers in a wide range of backgrounds, some becoming professional musicians or closely linked to the music sector, and others taking the skills they have developed and applying them in other careers, such as education, business, media, healthcare, marketing, finance or IT.
Studying music at university is both intellectually and musically demanding, and it is one of the most varied and diverse degree subjects available. It requires you to engage in a broad range of practical and intellectual activities including performance, composition, improvisation, data analysis, research and critical intellectual enquiry.
Music graduates therefore develop a wide range of key skills through both the academic and practical content of their degree, which opens a wide variety of opportunities.
Teamwork and initiative are fostered through participation in music ensembles, and communication skills through performance, presentations and written work.
Flexibility, self-discipline and good time management are all required to attain high technical standards and to balance the demands of study, practice and performance. This wide range of transferable skills means that music graduates can easily move into the career or training pathways that are open to graduates of any discipline; for example:
- management
- accountancy
- law
- events management
- journalism
- IT
Graduates who want to use their music degree in their work often progress to become self-employed musicians, performers, composers, teachers, academics, music therapists, studio managers or sound engineers.
Other opportunities include specialist magazine journalism, music librarianship or music publishing.
Many musicians enter careers that seek graduates of any discipline but offer the opportunity to use the specific skills developed in their studies. Possible occupations include arts administrator, community arts worker, museum curator or film/video production.
Find out more about the career options for Music from Prospects: The UK's Official Careers Website.
Music BA Honours (W300)