Music - BMus

Birmingham City University
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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Birmingham

  • Duration

    4 Years

  • Start date

    September

In addition to benefiting from individual tuition, you will enjoy a range of activities designed to develop your artistry, musical fluency and personal and professional awareness.

You will find yourself immersed in masterclasses and performance and composition workshops. Individual ensemble coaching and playing and teaching techniques complete the picture, helping you to become a well-rounded musician.

Top-flight singers and musicians – including soprano Dame Felicity Lott, organist Dame Gillian Weir DBE, cellist Natalie Clein and classical pianist and accompanist Iain Burnside – are among musicians who visit the Conservatoire.

Towards the end of your course, you will carry out a major project, which allows you to explore a specialism and format which matches your professional aspirations. This can be anything connected to music, from performance to business projects and dissertations to multi-media installations.

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Birmingham (West Midlands)
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About this course

Academically, you will explore themes such as musicianship, music history and professional development. As well as getting a thorough grounding in technical and performance skills with an emphasis on harmony and aural training, you will cover topics such as education and outreach work, conducting and world music.

There are variety of extracurricular schemes that take students out of the Conservatoire and into the professional world. Numerous professional engagements for students are administered through the Conservatoire’s External Engagements service, which provides direct experience of paid professional work.

GCSE passes in 5 subjects (grade C or above, including English Language) and 2 passes at A2 Level (each grade E/16 points minimum)

Scottish Certificate of Education/Scottish Qualifications Authority Intermediate/Higher/Advanced Higher in 5 different subjects, of which 3 are at Higher level

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4.5
24/05/2019
About the course: I enjoyed here. The legal knowledge of my course is a great part. The tutors are so supportive and the modules were so beneficial.
Would you recommend this course?: Yes
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2020

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More than 50 reviews in the last 12 months

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Subjects

  • Music Technology
  • Composition
  • Project
  • Music
  • Musicianship
  • Portfolio
  • First Study Performance
  • Professional Portfolio
  • Performance Traditions
  • Contextual Studies

Course programme

Years One to Three
  • First Study Performance, Composition or Music Technology
  • Professional Portfolio
  • Musicianship
  • Performance Traditions
  • Contextual Studies

Year Four
In Year 4 you will be assessed on performance or composition (as appropriate), two projects and some professional development tasks. From early on in the course, you will work towards a major project, which forms an important component of the final year. Allowing for the fact that your ambitions may change during the course of your studies, the major project offers a flexible platform for you to explore a specialism and format appropriate to your professional aspirations. Examples of projects include chamber music, accompaniment, recorded performance and dissertation.
  • Final Recital/ portfolio
  • Final project
  • Optional modules
Course StructureYears one to three

We concentrate on providing you with a thorough grounding in technical and performance/ composition skills, alongside contextual studies, musicianship and professional development activities such as conducting, pedagogy and community music. Each year, you have more choice and opportunities to specialise in your studies.

Professional development is embedded into our core modules, which focus on self-awareness, understanding your strengths and weakness, goal setting and self-motivation.

The Conservatoire participates in a number of exchange schemes with European and US Conservatoires. Provided that you achieve the appropriate levels of skills, you will be encouraged to spend a semester of year three at a partner institution.

Year 4

You will effectively design your own curriculum based on your career aspirations. You will be assessed on performance, composition or music technology (as appropriate) and design your own final project in any area of music you wish. You will take one or more additional modules in professional development, pedagogy or other specialist areas.

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