Music

Study mode:On campus Study type:Full-time Languages: English
Local:$ 9 k / Year(s) Foreign:$ 13 k / Year(s) Deadline: Jan 15, 2025
StudyQA ranking:5670 Duration:36 months

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Description

This programme is designed for students who wish to focus on the academic study of music, while retaining the freedom to pursue composition, performance, and music technology. It provides a broad knowledge of the development of Western music through topics such as song, contrapuntal forms, sonata form, the symphony, opera, music-theatre, and film music. This leads to a focussed and in-depth study of the music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries at Level 3. It introduces important methods of analysis, as well as ideas in aesthetics and and the sociology of music. Students will gain skills in writing about music, and are free to take a wide range of practical modules in addition to the core musicology strand.

Practical Music-making

Brunel’s College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences and Arts Centre have a strong tradition of practical music-making and there are a number of ensembles that you can participate in, including the New Music Ensemble, Jazzbridge, Brunel Vox and New Noise. The Arts Centre holds regular lunchtime and evening concerts featuring visiting performers, music students and staff.

Music at Brunel also has a number of artists and ensembles in association: currently these are , and Aims

The course requires students to explore fundamental questions about the nature, structure and meaning of music by analysing and critiquing musical texts, and by considering their social, cultural and political contexts. Developing skills of writing about music is a central aim of the course.

Detailed Course Facts

Application deadline January 15 Tuition fee
  • GBP 9000 Year (EEA)
  • GBP 13000 Year (Non-EEA)
UK/EU students: £9,000 full-time; £6,750 part-time ; £1,000 placement year Start date September 2015 Credits (ECTS) 360 ECTS
Duration full-time 36 months Languages Take an IELTS test
  • English
Delivery mode On Campus Educational variant Part-time, Full-time Intensity Flexible Part-time variant Flexible

Course Content

The degree course is modular. Modules are worth 20 or 40 credits and you must complete 120 credits for each year of your degree programme. All music students take the same modules in Year 1 (Performance I can be taken in a variety of ways and does not necessarily require a solo performance). In years 2 and 3 you will have a wide range of optional modules to choose from; some of these topics can be taken at either Level 2 or Level 3. The final year project requires you to carry out in-depth research on any related topic of particular interest to you.

Typical Modules

Level 1

  • Musicianship (20)

  • Materials of Music (20)

  • Musicology I: histories, forms and structures (20)

  • Sound Recording & Sonic Arts (20)

  • Composition I (20)

  • Performance I (20)

Level 2 Core

  • Musicology II: genres (20)

Level 2 Options

  • Composition II (20)

  • Performance II (Classical or Experimental) (20)

  • Performance II (Popular Music or Jazz) (20)

  • Sonic Arts II (40)

  • Conducting and Realisation (20)

  • Instrumentation and Orchestration (20)

  • Music and Perception (20)

  • Popular Music Studies (20)

  • Stylistic Improvisation (20)

  • Free Improvisation (20)

  • Jazz and Pop arranging (20)

  • Professional Development (20)

Level 3 Core

  • Musicology III: towards the new music (40)

  • Special Project (40)

Level 3 Options

  • Composition III (40)

  • Performance III (Classical or Experimental) (40)

  • Performance III (Popular Music or Jazz) (40)

  • Sonic Arts III (40)

  • Conducting and Realisation (20)

  • Instrumentation and Orchestration (20)

  • Music and Perception (20)

  • Popular Music Studies (20)

  • Stylistic Improvisation (20)

  • Free Improvisation (20)

  • Jazz and Pop arranging (20)

  • Professional Development (20)

English Language Requirements

IELTS band : 6.5 CAE score : 60(Grade C) TOEFL paper-based test score : 580 TOEFL iBT® test : 92

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Requirements

  • GCE A-level BBB, including Music at grade B.

  • BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma DDM in a related subject.

  • BTEC Level 3 Diploma DD in a related subject with an A-level Music at grade B.

  • BTEC Level 3 Subsidiary Diploma D in a related subject with A-levels grade BB including Music.

  • International Baccalaureate Diploma 32 points in Higher Level 5 in Music.

  • Access to Higher EducationDiploma Complete and pass a related subject Access course with 45 credits at level 3 and 15 credits at level 2 with Merits in all units. Applicants who are not taking A-level music or grade 7/8 music but are musically inclined may be asked to take a short test.

All candidates without A-level Music at grade B or equivalent or Grade 8 ABRSM, LCMM or Trinity College will be required to pass a brief entrance test, details of which will be provided upon application.

GCSE Mathematics grade C and GCSE English grade C are also required.

Please check our Admissions pages for more information on other factors we use to assess applicants within our grade range as well as our full GCSE requirements and accepted equivalencies in place of GCSE’s.

English Language Requirements

  • IELTS: 6.5 (min 5.5 in all areas)

  • Pearson: 58 (51 in all subscores)

  • BrunELT: 65% (min 55% in all areas)

Work Experience

No work experience is required.

Related Scholarships*

  • Academic Excellence Scholarship

    "The Academic Excellence Scholarship can provide up to a 50 % reduction in tuition per semester. These scholarships will be renewed if the student maintains superior academic performance during each semester of their 3-year Bachelor programme. The scholarship will be directly applied to the student’s tuition fees."

  • Access Bursary

    Bursary for UK students all subjects where the variable tuition fee rate is payable.

  • Alumni Bursary

    Alumni Bursary for UK Undergraduate students

* The scholarships shown on this page are suggestions first and foremost. They could be offered by other organisations than Brunel University.

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