Music

Course summary

WHY STUDY MUSIC? Music is a unique and challenging subject. As a Music student, you will be guided to combine emotion with intellect as you learn this language and craft your own responses through performance and composition. The ability to combine creative thought with reasoned arguments, backed up with strong evidence, is one of many facets this course offers, and one which universities (and employers) look for in their applicants. Music can complement a study of medicine or law very well, alongside careers within the music industry or education. CONTENT OF COURSE: This practical course fosters students’ musicianship and shapes their musical identities as researchers, creators and performers. Placing the student’s interests at the heart, they will study music from many varied cultures from around the globe, including an analysis of the folk music of specific countries, the modern fusion of styles between cultures and the varied roles and functions of music throughout the world. Students are encouraged to tailor their course of study to their own tastes and talents, whilst keeping an open mind and embracing music from diverse contexts including music that is familiar them and music that they have previously had no encounter with.