BA (Hons) Music Course

Program Overview

This program offers a comprehensive music education through a blend of theoretical and practical courses. Students develop skills in creating both live and recorded music, along with a deep understanding of music theory, techniques, and history. The program culminates in a substantial project in the student's chosen area, preparing them for various careers in the music industry.

Program Outline

Outline:

• Year 1
• Creating Recorded Music: Work with fellow musicians to fully realize a musical recording.
Learn collaboration, songwriting, instrumental works, electronic tracks, and more.
• Creating Live Music: Channel creativity into a live music event.
Collaborate with music and music production students to create a unique event. Develop skills in project management, repertoire development, and artistic presentation.
• Core Music Techniques: Develop proficiency in music theory, notation, harmony, melody, rhythm, and listening skills.
Form a portfolio for assessment from tasks across various musical styles and techniques.
• Applied Music Skills: Gain an in-depth understanding of music structure and harmonic principles.
Analyze structural and harmonic perspectives and develop crucial listening skills for practical musicianship.
• Music, Criticism, and Culture: Explore the significance of music in daily life, political movements, and cultures.
Learn to ask critical questions and apply ideas from core literature to contemporary case studies.
• Music and its Histories: Study narratives that characterize histories of music across different periods, technologies, and styles.
Explore these while pursuing specialist studies relevant to your degree pathway.
• Year 2
• Individual Creative Project: Bring your individual project to life with support from experts.
Plan, execute, and complete a performance, composition, recording, songwriting EP, educational practical project, or piece of sound design.
• Collaborative Creative Project: Explore key methods used in creative industries to organize and manage complex projects.
• Specialist Music Skills: Develop core music research skills and specialist techniques useful in various applications.
Hone practical skills through focused study.
• Music and Its Objects: Examine how music has been shaped by instruments, technologies, sound recordings, and notations.
Develop a critical approach to thinking about these, deepening your understanding of your own music-making activities.
• Case Studies in Contemporary Practice: Interrogate the concepts, methods, philosophies, and motivations that underpin diverse practices such as performances, compositions, installations, community projects, music therapy, industry-related practices, and music psychology.
Benefit from sessions with leading practitioners as you prepare your critique of a chosen case study.
• Professional Music Skills: Prepare for your music career by exploring roles, discovering what professionals do, and maximizing future employment opportunities in a vibrant and growing sector.
Gain an in-depth understanding of your chosen field and prepare for your next steps as a professional.
• Year 3
• Major Project (Music): Carry out a substantial piece of work in your chosen area.
This could be a large-scale live performance, an original album, a critical dissertation, a portfolio of compositions, music for film or game, or a cutting-edge research project. Receive support, facilities, expertise, planning, and management skills.
• Working in Music: Gain essential insight into your future career through a placement or freelance experience.
Explore performing on stage or in the studio, working in broadcast or live events, or teaching. Start gaining professional experience in your chosen career.
• Questioning Music: Challenge assumptions about music and its value.
Develop transferable skills and prepare for a range of career paths.
• The Future of the Arts: Reflect on the environmental cost of arts and culture engagement.
Equip yourself with skills and understanding to shape the arts practices of the future.

Careers:

• Performers
• Conductors
• Orchestral players and managers
• Producers
• Audio engineers
• Live sound engineers
• Music therapists
• Teachers
• Journalists

Other:

• Students will have the opportunity to work at live events in and around Hull.

UK:

• Tuition fees: £9,250 per year
• The amount you pay may increase each year, in line with inflation - but capped to the Retail Price Index (RPI).

International:

• Tuition fees: £16,500 per year

Additional costs you may have to pay:

• Books (you can borrow books on your reading lists from the library, but you may buy your own)
• Optional field trips
• Study abroad (incl.
travel costs, accommodation, visas, immunisation)
• Placement costs (incl.
travel costs and accommodation)
• Student visas (international students)
• Laptop (you’ll have access to laptops and computers on campus, but you may want your own)
• Printing and photocopying
• Professional-body membership
• Graduation (gown hire and photography)

• You can take out a tuition fee loan to cover the full cost of your course.
One you’ve successfully applied for this, you don’t need to do anything else – the money is sent straight to us.
• You can also take out a maintenance loan of up to £10,227 a year to cover your living costs, depending on your household income.
• Remember, you won’t start paying your loans back until you’ve left University and earn more than £25,000 per year.