Music (Performance)

Postgraduate

In Leeds

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    Leeds

  • Start date

    Different dates available

This exciting four-year degree allows you to specialise in performance and spend your third year studying in a conservatoire, music college or university abroad.
You’ll focus on solo and ensemble performance, but you’ll also study music from a variety of critical approaches. You can pursue your own interests by choosing optional modules, exploring areas such as musicology, analysis, aesthetics, composition, the psychology of music, or music technology.
Through music in psychology or politics, from baroque to pop, you’ll be able to study music from different cultures and periods. At the same time, you’ll develop your practice as a creative and individual performer, enhanced by your experience at one of a range of institutions in Europe or elsewhere in the world.
You’ll develop a wide range of experience and valuable skills in a vibrant, diverse city with an exciting musical and cultural scene.
Specialist facilities
At the heart of the School of Music is the Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, a beautiful performance space which hosts a large and varied programme of concerts in term time. The entire concert programme is free to students.
The School of Music has its own purpose-built building complete with rehearsal, performance and practice spaces, a lab for studying the psychology of music and four lecture theatres. There are also studios for sound recording, software development and computer music composition – we have a wide range of professional recording equipment and up-to-date music software to help you with your studies. In addition, our instrument collection includes a specially commissioned gamelan, historic and modern keyboard instruments and a large selection of orchestral and world percussion.
Music at Leeds.
Leeds offers a fantastic variety of opportunities to get involved with music and performance that go far beyond the School of Music ensembles

Facilities

Location

Start date

Leeds (North Yorkshire)
Maurice Keyworth Building, The University Of Leeds, LS2 9JT

Start date

Different dates availableEnrolment now open

About this course

Entry requirements
A-level: AAB
Other course specific tests:
Normally students will have taken Music, but if you have not (especially if it isn’t taught at your school or college), you should have at least one essay-based subject, as well as a minimum ABRSM Grade 8 Distinction practical qualification and evidence of musical literacy (e.g. Grade 5 music theory or equivalent).
Select alternative qualification
Access to HE Diploma
BTEC
Cambridge Pre-U
International Baccalaureate
Irish Highers (Leaving Certificate)
Scottish Highers / Advanced Highers
Other Qualifications

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Subjects

  • Psychology
  • Music Technology
  • Composition
  • Sound
  • University
  • School
  • Technology
  • Music
  • Aesthetics
  • Musicology

Course programme

Throughout the programme, you’ll benefit from individual tuition from a specialist teacher in your instrumental/vocal lessons, and coaching in ensemble performance. In your first year you’ll study core modules that introduce you to theoretical, historical and social aspects of music; you can also choose from optional modules introducing you to composition, music technology or psychology, as well as discovery modules.

In your second year, half your time will be spent studying solo and ensemble performance which will prepare you for the following year, when you’ll study in a conservatoire, music college or university abroad. You’ll also develop in other areas, choosing from topics reflecting the diverse research interests of our tutors. In addition, you’ll choose options including analysis, aesthetics and criticism, musicology, music technology, composition and music psychology.

The year abroad can focus almost exclusively on intensive performance study. However, if you’re studying in English you may also choose some academic modules, and if you’re in Europe, you can improve your language skills.

When you return to Leeds for your final year, you’ll focus on specialist solo performance to prepare for a recital, and you’ll demonstrate the skills you’ve acquired when you produce a dissertation on a topic of your choice. It is possible to continue to choose from specialist studies, and you will have the chance to perform in the School’s ensembles.

Course structure

These are typical modules/components studied and may change from time to time. Read more in our Terms and conditions.

Modules Year 1

Compulsory modules

  • Understanding Music 20 credits
  • Music in History and Culture 20 credits
  • Music Research Skills 20 credits
  • Performance 20 credits
  • Ensemble Performance 20 credits
  • Studying in a Digital Age (Music) 5 credits
Optional modules
  • Composition 20 credits
  • Sound, Technology, and Music 20 credits
  • Introduction to the Psychology of Music 20 credits
Discovery modules
  • Discovery modules 20 credits

Year 2

Compulsory modules

  • Ensemble Performance 20 credits
  • Performance 40 credits
  • Music in Context 20 credits
Optional modules
  • Interpreting Music 20 credits
  • Composition 20 credits
  • Notation and Editing 20 credits
  • Aesthetics and Criticism 20 credits
  • Music Technology Skills and Techniques 20 credits
  • Music in Practice 20 credits
  • The Psychology of Listening and Performance 20 credits
  • Music Students into Schools 20 credits
Discovery modules
  • Discovery modules 20 credits

Music (Performance)

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