Music

Course summary

Music combines practical application with intellectual study and gives you an insight into the world’s greatest art form. You will be studying music from a broad spectrum of culture and tradition, learning about techniques of composition, musical analysis and styles of performance. Students relish the fact that the working pattern and coursework deadlines offer a contrast from their other subjects, and simply that a love of listening to music can be applied in an academic context. Music sits well alongside any combination of subjects and is excellent preparation for any degree. The world’s top universities have long recognised that it requires self-discipline, imagination and intellectual rigour. If you want to take Music to degree level or on to a musical career, this A Level specification establishes a platform for performing, composing, academia or the wider music industry.