Music, BMus (Hons)

Course summary

This degree provides an exciting, global and interdisciplinary approach to the study of music, blending theory, practice and performance.City’s wide range of ensembles - including classical, contemporary, jazz and world music - conduct regular concerts and a summer festival, providing you with opportunities to perform and discover world-class musicians.

• Learn in a highly energised department, with internationally recognised staff who share your devotion to music

• Study with leading music professionals and performers, many of whom also teach at the leading London conservatoires

• Enjoy 20 hours of 1-2-1 solo instrumental/vocal tuition each year

• Train in facilities that include advanced recording and composition studios, and performance and practice spaces

• Prepare for a range of music-related careers through optional modules in sound recording, music business, music education and more

• Gain exciting new perspectives on music and its relationships with culture, technology and society through a close study of classical, popular and world music

• Follow in the footsteps of students who have undertaken a placement year with Les Miserables, London Philharmonic, and other organisations.

Year 1

• Western Music in Context 1

• Western Music in Context 2

• Critical Listening

• Materials of Tonal Music

• Composition 1

• Performance 1

• Practical Musicianship 1

• Developing Creative and Professional Narratives

• Modern European History

• Analysing Music

• Ensemble Performance

• Practical Musicianship 2

• Global Perspectives: London’s Musical Communities

• Performance 2

• Performance 2A

• Composition: Studio

• Composition: Instrumental and Vocal

• Composition: Moving Images

• Digital Storytelling: Research, Writing, Design

• Fifty Shades of Red. Russia in the Twentieth Century

• The American Century

• Creative Writing Workshop

• Micro-Placement

• Jazz

• Global Popular Musics

• Sound, Music and the Moving Image

• Electronic Dance Music

• Rhythm

• Sound, Art and Technoculture

• Orchestral and Instrumental Studies

• Nineteenth-Century Opera

• The Classical Style: Music, Aesthetics, Society

• Music in East Asia

• Video Game Music

• Major Project: Dissertation

• Major Project: Composition

• Major Project: Performance 3

• Composition: Studio

• Composition: Instrumental and Vocal

• Composition: Moving Images

• Global Perspectives: London’s Musical Communities

• Performance 3A

• Visual Storytelling

• Disruptive Divas, Riot Grrrls and Bad Sistas: A History of Women in Popular Music

• Sound, Music and the Moving Image

• Nineteenth-Century Opera

• Global Popular Musics

• Electronic Dance Music

• Rhythm

• Sound, Art and Technoculture

• Lieder

• Jazz

• Music in East Asia

• Video Game Music

• Romantic Aesthetics

• The Classical Style: Music, Aesthetics, Society

• Micro-Placement

• Industry Projects

• Year Placement: Integrated Professional Training