Music
Bachelor's degree
In Oxford
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
Oxford
UCAS code W300 Duration 3 years (BA)
Entrance requirements AAA Subject requirements
Music or ABRSM Music Theory Grade VII or above
ABRSM Grade V keyboard ability or above
(see admissions requirements tab)
Admissions test(s) Performance piece Written work Three pieces
Admissions statistics*
Interviewed: 93%
Successful: 37%
Intake: 71
*3-year average 2017-19
Contact
+44 (0) 1865 286264
Email Music
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Unistats information for this course can be found at the bottom of the page
Please note that there may be no data available if the number of course participants is very small.
Music is everywhere in the world around us; it is part of all of our lives, whether we play it, actively listen to it, or hear it in passing. At Oxford, we study music by reading, listening, performing and composing. We create music in all its aspects – acoustic, electronic, individually and communally, working with world-class professionals and with local communities. We investigate, through analysis, the relationships within a piece of music, and between that piece and its genre and context. Throughout the course, you will be exposed to music of all kinds and in all contexts: Western classical, popular music, musics of other cultures, community music, seeing these musics in terms of their history (and how that history has been shaped over time), social context, and psychology.
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Music has been part of the life of Oxford for more than 800 years. There are around 30 academic staff, of whom 15 give lectures regularly – scholars with distinguished reputations as musicologists, performers or composers. Oxford welcomes visits from numerous speakers and professional performing ensembles autism. I have friends who are playing the Rite of Spring for piano duet for a chamber music exam, who are singing Schubert Lieder for a solo recital, and who are analysing Bach...
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Subjects
- Dance
- History of Philosophy
- Global
- Philosophy
- Teaching
- Psychology
- Supervisor
- Options
- IT
- Composition
- Performance
- University
- Part Time
- Full Time
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- Musical
- Musicology
- Skills and Training
- Historically
Course programme
A typical week- Four to six lectures
- One or two tutorials in college
- Practice, workshops and rehearsals
- More time for independent study in the summer terms
- Four to six lectures
- One or two tutorials in college
- Practice, workshops and rehearsals
- More time for independent study in the summer terms
Tutorials are usually 2-4 students and a tutor. Lecture sizes may vary depending on the options you choose. Compulsory lectures are the largest and will include the full year group of around 70 students, while the smallest lectures, for specialist options, might include fewer than 10 students. Seminars will also usually involve 10-12 students.
Most lectures are delivered by Associate Professors and Professors within the University. Most of these professors are also college subject tutors (although not all college tutors are University lecturers). Each college’s subject tutor is responsible for giving and coordinating tutorials. Many tutors are world-leading experts with years of experience in teaching and research. Some teaching (mostly at tutorial level) may also be delivered by postgraduate students, who are usually studying at doctoral level. To find out more about how our teaching year is structured, visit our Academic Year page.
Academic YearCourse structureYEAR 1COURSES
Six subjects are taken (two chosen from a list of options)
- Compulsory:
- Special topics, for example: Machaut’s songs; Historically informed performance; Schubert’s last decade; Psychology of everyday musical experience; Global hip hop
- Musical analysis and critical listening
- Techniques of composition and keyboard skills
- Options:
- Foundations in the study of music
- Foundations in ethnomusicology
- Composition
- Performance
- Extended essay
ASSESSMENT
Three written papers and one ‘take-away’ paper, a practical examination and a recital/portfolio of compositions/essay
YEARS 2 AND 3COURSES
Eight subjects are taken (six chosen from a list of options)
- Compulsory
- Topics 1 (three from a range of historical and critical fields, eg in 2018-19: Sacred Renaissance polyphony on the Continent; History and philosophy of music education; Bach’s keyboard music)
- Topics 2 (three from a range of historical and critical fields, eg in 2018-19: 18th-century opera; Modernism in Vienna, 1900- 1935; Scenes and subcultures in the 20th century)
- Optional topics studied
- Musical analysis and criticism
- Musical thought and scholarship
- Techniques of composition
- Solo performance
- Orchestration
- Dissertation
- Composition portfolio
- Edition with commentary
- Analysis portfolio
- Music ethnography
- Chamber music performance
- Choral conducting
- Choral performance
- Recording and producing music
- Special topic papers. Some recent examples include: Music perception; Music in Scandinavia; Women composers; Dance music; Lieder; Music and society in England, 1851–1914; Music in the community
ASSESSMENT
Final University examinations: three or more written papers (two compulsory and one chosen from three options) and a combination of take-away papers, portfolio submissions, recitals and practical tests, depending on the options chosen
YEAR 1COURSES
Six subjects are taken (two chosen from a list of options)
- Compulsory:
- Special topics, for example: Machaut’s songs; Historically informed performance; Schubert’s last decade; Psychology of everyday musical experience; Global hip hop
- Musical analysis and critical listening
- Techniques of composition and keyboard skills
- Options:
- Foundations in the study of music
- Foundations in ethnomusicology
- Composition
- Performance
- Extended essay
ASSESSMENT
Three written papers and one ‘take-away’ paper, a practical examination and a recital/portfolio of compositions/essay
YEARS 2 AND 3COURSES
Eight subjects are taken (six chosen from a list of options)
- Compulsory
- Topics 1 (three from a range of historical and critical fields, eg in 2018-19: Sacred Renaissance polyphony on the Continent; History and philosophy of music education; Bach’s keyboard music)
- Topics 2 (three from a range of historical and critical fields, eg in 2018-19: 18th-century opera; Modernism in Vienna, 1900- 1935; Scenes and subcultures in the 20th century)
- Optional topics studied
- Musical analysis and criticism
- Musical thought and scholarship
- Techniques of composition
- Solo performance
- Orchestration
- Dissertation
- Composition portfolio
- Edition with commentary
- Analysis portfolio
- Music ethnography
- Chamber music performance
- Choral conducting
- Choral performance
- Recording and producing music
- Special topic papers. Some recent examples include: Music perception; Music in Scandinavia; Women composers; Dance music; Lieder; Music and society in England, 1851–1914; Music in the community
ASSESSMENT
Final University examinations: three or more written papers (two compulsory and one chosen from three options) and a combination of take-away papers, portfolio submissions, recitals and practical tests, depending on the options chosen
YEAR 1YEAR 1YEAR 1COURSES
Six subjects are taken (two chosen from a list of options)
- Compulsory:
- Special topics, for example: Machaut’s songs; Historically informed performance; Schubert’s last decade; Psychology of everyday musical experience; Global hip hop
- Musical analysis and critical listening
- Techniques of composition and keyboard skills
- Options:
- Foundations in the study of music
- Foundations in ethnomusicology
- Composition
- Performance
- Extended essay
ASSESSMENT
Three written papers and one ‘take-away’ paper, a practical examination and a recital/portfolio of compositions/essay
COURSES
Six subjects are taken (two chosen from a list of options)
- Compulsory:
- Special topics, for example: Machaut’s songs; Historically informed performance; Schubert’s last decade; Psychology of everyday musical experience; Global hip hop
- Musical analysis and critical listening
- Techniques of composition and keyboard skills
- Options:
- Foundations in the study of music
- Foundations in ethnomusicology
- Composition
- Performance
- Extended essay
COURSES
COURSESSix subjects are taken (two chosen from a list of options)
- Compulsory:
- Special topics, for example: Machaut’s songs; Historically informed performance; Schubert’s last decade; Psychology of everyday musical experience; Global hip hop
- Musical analysis and critical listening
- Techniques of composition and keyboard skills
- Compulsory:
- Special topics, for example: Machaut’s songs; Historically informed performance; Schubert’s last decade; Psychology of everyday musical experience; Global hip hop
- Musical analysis and critical listening
- Techniques of composition and keyboard skills
- Special topics, for example: Machaut’s songs; Historically informed performance; Schubert’s last decade; Psychology of everyday musical experience; Global hip hop
- Musical analysis and critical listening
- Techniques of composition and keyboard skills
- Special topics, for example: Machaut’s songs; Historically informed performance; Schubert’s last decade; Psychology of everyday musical experience; Global hip hop
- Musical analysis and critical listening
- Techniques of composition and keyboard skills
- Options:
- Foundations in the study of music
- Foundations in ethnomusicology
- Composition
- Performance
- Extended essay
- Options:
- Foundations in the study of music
- Foundations in ethnomusicology
- Composition
- Performance
- Extended essay
- Foundations in the study of music
- Foundations in ethnomusicology
- Composition
- Performance
- Extended essay
- Foundations in the study of music
- Foundations in ethnomusicology
- Composition
- Performance
- Extended essay
ASSESSMENT
Three written papers and one ‘take-away’ paper, a practical examination and a recital/portfolio of compositions/essay
ASSESSMENT
ASSESSMENTThree written papers and one ‘take-away’ paper, a practical examination and a recital/portfolio of compositions/essay
YEARS 2 AND 3YEARS 2 AND 3YEARS 2 AND 3COURSES
Eight subjects are taken (six chosen from a list of options)
- Compulsory
- Topics 1 (three from a range of historical and critical fields, eg in 2018-19: Sacred Renaissance polyphony on the Continent; History and philosophy of music education; Bach’s keyboard music)
- Topics 2 (three from a range of historical and critical fields, eg in 2018-19: 18th-century opera; Modernism in Vienna, 1900- 1935; Scenes and subcultures in the 20th century)
- Optional topics studied
- Musical analysis and criticism
- Musical thought and scholarship
- Techniques of composition
- Solo performance
- Orchestration
- Dissertation
- Composition portfolio
- Edition with commentary
- Analysis portfolio
- Music ethnography
- Chamber music performance
- Choral conducting
- Choral performance
- Recording and producing music
- Special topic papers. Some recent examples include: Music perception; Music in Scandinavia; Women composers; Dance music; Lieder; Music and society in England, 1851–1914; Music in the community
ASSESSMENT
Final University examinations: three or more written papers (two compulsory and one chosen from three options) and a combination of take-away papers, portfolio submissions, recitals and practical tests, depending on the options chosen
COURSES
Eight subjects are taken (six chosen from a list of options)
- Compulsory
- Topics 1 (three from a range of historical and critical fields, eg in 2018-19: Sacred Renaissance polyphony on the Continent; History and philosophy of music education; Bach’s keyboard music)
- Topics 2 (three from a range of historical and critical fields, eg in 2018-19: 18th-century opera; Modernism in Vienna, 1900- 1935; Scenes and subcultures in the 20th century)
- Optional topics studied
- Musical analysis and criticism
- Musical thought and scholarship
- Techniques of composition
- Solo performance
- Orchestration
- Dissertation
- Composition portfolio
- Edition with commentary
- Analysis portfolio
- Music ethnography
- Chamber music performance
- Choral conducting
- Choral performance
- Recording and producing music
- Special topic papers. Some recent examples include: Music perception; Music in Scandinavia; Women composers; Dance music; Lieder; Music and society in England, 1851–1914; Music in the community
COURSES
COURSESEight subjects are taken (six chosen from a list of options)
- Compulsory
- Topics 1 (three from a range of historical and critical fields, eg in 2018-19: Sacred Renaissance polyphony on the Continent; History and philosophy of music education; Bach’s keyboard music)
- Topics 2 (three from a range of historical and critical fields, eg in 2018-19: 18th-century opera; Modernism in Vienna, 1900- 1935; Scenes and subcultures in the 20th century)
- Compulsory
- Topics 1 (three from a range of historical and critical fields, eg in 2018-19: Sacred Renaissance polyphony on the Continent; History and philosophy of music education; Bach’s keyboard music)
- Topics 2 (three from a range of historical and critical fields, eg in 2018-19: 18th-century opera; Modernism in Vienna, 1900- 1935; Scenes and subcultures in the 20th century)
- Topics 1 (three from a range of historical and critical fields, eg in 2018-19: Sacred Renaissance polyphony on the Continent; History and philosophy of music education; Bach’s keyboard music)
- Topics 2 (three from a range of historical and critical fields, eg in 2018-19: 18th-century opera; Modernism in Vienna, 1900- 1935; Scenes and subcultures in the 20th century)
- Topics 1 (three from a range of historical and critical fields, eg in 2018-19: Sacred Renaissance polyphony on the Continent; History and philosophy of music education; Bach’s keyboard music)
- Topics 2 (three from a range of historical and critical fields, eg in 2018-19: 18th-century opera; Modernism in Vienna, 1900- 1935; Scenes and subcultures in the 20th century)
- Optional topics studied
- Musical analysis and criticism
- Musical thought and scholarship
- Techniques of composition
- Solo performance
- Orchestration
- Dissertation
- Composition portfolio
- Edition with commentary
- Analysis portfolio
- Music ethnography
- Chamber music performance
- Choral conducting
- Choral performance
- Recording and producing music
- Special topic papers. Some recent examples include: Music perception; Music in Scandinavia; Women composers; Dance music; Lieder; Music and society in England, 1851–1914; Music in the community
- Optional topics studied
- Musical analysis and criticism
- Musical thought and scholarship
- Techniques of composition
- Solo performance
- Orchestration
- Dissertation
- Composition portfolio
- Edition with commentary
- Analysis portfolio
- Music ethnography
- Chamber music performance
- Choral conducting
- Choral performance
- Recording and producing music
- Special topic papers. Some recent examples include: Music perception; Music in Scandinavia; Women composers; Dance music; Lieder; Music and society in England, 1851–1914; Music in the community
- Musical analysis and criticism
- Musical thought and scholarship
- Techniques of composition
- Solo performance
- Orchestration
- Dissertation
- Composition portfolio
- Edition with commentary
- Analysis portfolio
- Music ethnography
- Chamber music performance
- Choral conducting
- Choral performance
- Recording and producing music
- Special topic papers. Some recent examples include: Music perception; Music in Scandinavia; Women composers; Dance music; Lieder; Music and society in England, 1851–1914; Music in the community
- Musical analysis and criticism
- Musical thought and scholarship
- Techniques of composition
- Solo performance
- Orchestration
- Dissertation
- Composition portfolio
- Edition with commentary
- Analysis portfolio
- Music ethnography
- Chamber music performance
- Choral conducting
- Choral performance
- Recording and producing music
- Special topic papers. Some recent examples include: Music perception; Music in Scandinavia; Women composers; Dance music; Lieder; Music and society in England, 1851–1914; Music in the community
Please note that the courses listed above are illustrative and may change. A full list of current options is available on the Music website.Music websiteASSESSMENT
Final University examinations: three or more written papers (two compulsory and one chosen from three options) and a combination of take-away papers, portfolio submissions, recitals and practical tests, depending on the options chosen
ASSESSMENT
ASSESSMENTFinal University examinations: three or more written papers (two compulsory and one chosen from three options) and a combination of take-away papers, portfolio submissions, recitals and practical tests, depending on the options chosen
The content and format of this course may change in some circumstances. Read further information about potential course changes.
The content and format of this course may change in some circumstances. Read further information about potential course changes.
The content and format of this course may change in some circumstances. Read further information about potential course changes.
The content and format of this course may change in some circumstances. Read further information about potential course changes.
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