Developed to respond to the growing demand for flexible music and audio professionals, the course is focused on equipping you with an exceptional range of intellectual, technical and creative skills.
This degree has a unique focus to help you understand the relationships between music, sound and other forms of digital media. For example, film, games, web-based applications, and novel modes of performance.
- Learn in a highly energised department, with internationally recognised staff who share your devotion to music
- Train in facilities that include advanced recording and composition studios, and performance and practice spaces
- Study music, recording, studio production techniques, composition, interactive music, acoustics and psychoacoustics, audio arts, sound synthesis, and digital signal processing
- Participate in music-making activities, including student ensembles, regular concerts and summer music festival
- Learn in a stimulating research-led environment with world-leading studios and recording facilities
- Develop up-to-date technical skills in digital and audio technologies
- Follow in the footsteps of students who have undertaken a placement year with Les Miserables, London Philharmonic, and other organisations
Course Details - Modules
In year 1, you are exposed to a wide range of concepts and ideas surrounding the theory and practice of music, sound and technology. Five core modules provide comprehensive grounding in sound recording, acoustics, digital audio, media and critical theory, contextual studies and critical listening in order to form a platform for more specialist topics in years 2 and 3.
Core modules include:
- Practical Musicianship 1
- Critical Listening
- Sound Design
- Sound Recording and Studio Techniques 1
- Music, Sound and Technology
In year 2, you develop advanced skills in recording and audio programming, while applying these skills towards the creation of innovative new work. A spread of electives across sound studies, critical and media theory, music in popular culture, western music, applied music studies and composition allows you to enhance their understanding in specialist areas and tailor their studies to particular strengths and interests.
Core modules include:
- Practical Musicianship 2
- Sound Recording and Studio Techniques 2
- Interactivity for Music and Sound
Elective modules include:
- Work Placement
- Composition (Studio)
- Composition (Instrumental)
- Composition (Moving Images)
- Performance 2A
- Global Perspectives: London’s Musical Communities
- Fifty Shades of Red. Russia in the Twentieth Century
- The American Century
- Web Creation and Digital Storytelling
- Creative Writing Workshop
- Interdisciplinarity and Collaborative Process
- Global Popular Musics
- Sound, Music and the Moving Image
- Electronic Dance Music
- Rhythm
- Sound, Art and Technoculture
- Orchestral and Instrumental Studies
- Performance Practice
- Nineteenth-Century Opera
- Lieder
- Principles of Music Education
Your final year places core emphasis on the role of sound and music in moving image and web applications. You will also choose from a broad range of elective modules. The major project forms a focal point for the final year of the degree, allowing you to devise and realise a large-scale individual project as the culmination of their studies.
Core modules include:
- Major Project: Music, Sound and Technology
- Major Project: Dissertation
- Major Project: Composition
- Sound and Image Interaction -Mastering Advanced Production
Elective modules include:
- Web Creation and Digital Storytelling
- Composition (Studio)
- Composition (Instrumental)
- Composition (Moving Images)
- Global Perspectives: London’s Musical Communities
- Performance 3A
- Fifty Shades of Red. Russia in the Twentieth Century
- The American Century
- Creative Writing Workshop
- Place and Space
- Disruptive Divas, Riot Grrrls and Bad Sistas: A History of Women in Popular Music
- Sound, Art and Technoculture
- Global Popular Musics
- Interdisciplinarity and Collaborative Process
- Sound, Music and the Moving Image
- Electronic Dance Music
- Rhythm
- Orchestral and Instrumental Studies
- Performance Practice
- Nineteenth-Century Opera
- The Classical Style: Music, Aesthetics, Society
- Lieder
- Principles of Music Education
- Sensing Music
Course Details – Assessment Method
Assessment is by a combination of projects, practical and creative work, and examinations throughout your degree. Marks obtained in all years contribute to the final degree awarded.
Your project and practical work account for over half the final mark.
Most modules contain an assignment in the form of:
- An extended written or practical project submitted some weeks following the conclusion of the lecture series.
- A written or practical coursework assignment, in the form of a seminar presentation, a short essay, or creative and technical tasks completed before the end of the lecture series.
- For some modules, assessment is based solely on a portfolio submission.
The assessment weighting for year one is 10%, year two is 30% and year 3 is 60%
Course Details – Professional Bodies
The Joint Audio Media Education Services
How to Apply
26 January This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.
Application Codes
Course code:
W3W7
Institution code:
C60
Campus Name:
Main Site
Campus code:
Points of Entry
The following entry points are available for this course:
Year 1
Year 2
Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry (Year 2 and Beyond)
Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry are not listed for this Course.
International applicants
Standard Qualification Requirements
Access to HE Diploma in Music or Music Technology
Preferably including Music Technology and Mathematics or Physics.
typically ABB
preferably including Music, and Maths or Physics.
preferably including Music, and Maths or Physics.
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