Music

Course summary

Studying Music in the Sixth Form gives you the opportunity to engage with a wide variety of music, including classical, popular, jazz, film, and music for the theatre. Specific set works from these musical genres are studied across the year, both from an analytical perspective and also in terms of wider musical and historical context. You might learn about the building blocks of a successful musical, or why the shower scene in Hitchcock’s Psycho was made so effective by Bernard Herrmann’s score. You will gain a greater understanding of core Western Classical Music and the influence it has had over the centuries, with focus on genres such as Baroque concerto, comic opera, and Romantic piano repertoire. A significant percentage of the course is dedicated to solo or ensemble performance, with a further unit focusing on composition or compositional techniques, and this broad range demonstrates a skill set that is always in great demand by employers and educational institutions.