Music

Course summary

We aim to provide opportunities for you to develop a range of skills, knowledge and understanding in music, embracing creative, interpretative, historical and analytical aspects of the subject. Our course provides a context for personal growth through the diversity of serious study in Music. It promotes academic independence and self-discipline, broadens intellectual and emotional responses, stimulates critical discrimination, and heightens social and cultural awareness. We believe that everyone is capable of being a musician, so we aim to build an aspirational and creative musical environment that is open to all. We want to inspire you to engage confidently and critically with music, thereby developing an independent and lasting love of musical learning. We aim to promote musical awareness, which searches beyond the boundaries of the classroom to connect with the world. We want to foster the exploration of musical opportunities for all – both independent and collaborative – and to encourage you in confident musical risk-taking at whatever level, so that you may discover an independence of musical thought and style that allows you to express your individuality and pursue your ambitions.