Music

Year 1

Courses are divided into modules. Each year you will normally take modules totalling 120 credits.

• Issues and Topics in Music 1 (15 credits)
• Issues and Topics in Music 2 (15 credits)
• Issues and Topics in Music 3 (15 credits)
• Issues and Topics in Music 4 (15 credits)

You are also required to take 60 credits of optional modules that may typically include:

• Techniques of Composition 1 (15 credits)
• Musical Analysis 1 (15 credits)
• Musical Performance 1 (15 credits)
• Aural Training I (15 credits)
• Writing About Music (15 credits)

Alternatively, you can take up to 30 credits of modules from other Arts & Humanities departments (subject to availability).

Year 2

In your second year there are no required modules.

There are no core modules.

• Musical Analysis 2 (15 credits)
• Composition Studies I (major) (30 credits)
• Composition Studies 2 (minor) (15 credits)
• Techniques of Composition II (15 credits)
• Ethnographic Methods (15 credits)
• Music in Medieval Paris (15 credits)
• Music in Muslim Cultures (15 credits)
• Revolutionary Opera (15 credits)
• Post-war Jazz (15 credits)
• Eighteenth-Century Music (15 credits)
• Between Noise and Sound (15 credits)

You are also free to choose up to 30 of your 120 credits in modules offered by other departments at King's, SOAS, or RAM.

Please note: there are prerequisites for all performance and composition modules.

You may apply to spend the second semester of this year studying abroad at one of our partner universities. Our current partner universities include:

• Hong Kong University
• University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Year 3

You can take 120 credits from the modules list below as well as from second year modules not already taken (see list in Year 2).

There are no core modules in your third year.

In your third year you can continue to pursue a broad programme or study two or three fields in-depth. Your are equred to take 120 credits from a list of options that may typically include:

• Advanced Performance Studies (admission by audition) (45 credits)
• Advanced Free Composition (admission by portfolio) (45 credits)
• Dissertation (30 credits)
• Musical Performance III (15 credits)
• Techniques of Composition III (30 credits)
• Topics in Latin American Music (15 credits)
• Sound studies (15 credits)
• Bach's St Mathew's Passion (15 credits)
• Performance Practice on Record (15 credits)
• Stravinsky (15 credits)
• Contemporary Musicology (15 credits)

You are also free to choose up to 30 of your 120 credits in modules offered by other departments, SOAS or RAM.

Please note: there are prerequisites for all performance and composition modules in year three.

King's College London reviews the modules offered on a regualr basis to provide up-to-date, innovative and relevant courses of study. Therefore, modules offered may change. We suggest you keep an eye on the course finder on our website for updates.