2024/25 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue

BA Music (For students entering from September 2024 onwards)

Total credits: 360

Entry requirements:

Entry Requirements are available on the Course Search entry

School/Unit responsible for the parenting of students and programme:

School of Music

Examination board through which the programme will be considered:

Relevant QAA Subject Benchmark Groups:

Music

Programme specification:

The information on this page is accurate for students entering the programme in 2023/2024 or before. For students entering the programme from September 2024 or after, you can find the details of your programme:

BA Music


Our BA Music is a flexible course that enables you to shape your learning around the areas of music that interest and excite you.
The course draws on musics from a range of genres, styles, cultural and social contexts, and geographic locations to explore key concepts, theories and approaches. You’ll develop your skills as a creative, critical and reflective thinker, gaining the tools and experience needed to be an independent worker and musician, ready for life after university. You can personalise your course by choosing optional modules from a broad range of areas – including aesthetics, analysis, contemporary composition, film music, the music business, musicology, music psychology, music technology, performance (solo and collaborative) and popular music – enabling you to shape your degree to fit your interests and ambitions.
You’ll study with academics who are experts in their fields, receive support from a dedicated technical team, and take lessons with a visiting professional specialist if you study solo performance. Across your course, you’ll engage with the latest musical research, explore a range of theoretical, creative and practical aspects of music, and develop a set of valuable musical and transferrable skills. You’ll have opportunities to work independently and collaboratively, developing and applying your skills and knowledge in contexts that extend beyond the university environment. All these elements combine to provide you with an exciting and dynamic educational experience that’s unique to Leeds.

Year1 - View timetable

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

Compulsory modules:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules

Candidates must study exactly 120 credits in Level 1.

Optional modules:

Candidates are required to study 60 credits of optional modules in total. This may include 20 credits of discovery modules.
Candidates may study a maximum of 40 credits from the following optional modules:

Candidates may study a maximum of 40 credits from the following optional modules:

Candidates may study the following 20-credit optional module:

Discovery modules:

Candidates may study up to 20 credits of discovery modules in place of a 20-credit optional module.

Year2 - View timetable

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

We are currently refreshing our courses to make sure students have the best possible experience. Full module details for years 2 and 3 are not yet available. Before you enter years 2 and 3 details of modules for those years will be provided.

Candidates must study exactly 120 credits in Level 2 with no more than 70 credits in either semester.

Compulsory modules:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:
- Researching Music - 20 Credits

Optional modules:

Candidates are required to study 80 credits of optional modules in total. This may include 20 credits of discovery modules.

Candidates are required to study 20-40 credits from the following optional modules (optional list 1).
- Music and Politics - 20 Credits
- Cultures of Performance - 20 Credits
- Sound and Media - 20 Credits
- Musical Meaning - 20 Credits

Candidates may study a maximum of 40 credits from the following optional modules:
- Marketing for Musicians - 20 Credits
- Psychology of Listening and Performance - 20 Credits
- Creating and Producing Music for Screen Media - 20 Credits
- Notations of Music - 20 Credits

Candidates will be required to study a maximum of 40 credits from the following optional modules:
- Aesthetics and Criticism - 20 Credits
- Leading an Ensemble - 20 Credits
- Applied Music Technology - 20 Credits

Candidates may study a maximum of 60 credits from the following optional modules (if you take 60 credits from this basket, you are required to take MUS2132 or 2133 from optional list 1 above):
- Creating Music- 20 Credits
- Performance - 20 Credits
- Opera North: Opera in Practice - 20 Credits

Discovery modules:

Candidates may study up to 20 credits of discovery modules instead of a 20-credit optional module.

Year3 - View timetable

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

We are currently refreshing our courses to make sure students have the best possible experience. Full module details for year 3 are not yet available. Before you enter year 3 full details of modules for that year will be provided.

Candidates must study exactly 120 credits in Level 3 with no more than 70 credits in either semester.

Compulsory modules:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:
- Independent Research Project - 40 Credits
- Music Beyond Graduation - 20 Credits

Optional modules:

Candidates are required to study 60 credits of optional modules in total. This may include 20 credits of discovery modules.

Candidates may study a maximum of 40 credits from the following optional modules:
- Music and Politics - 20 Credits
- Cultures of Performance - 20 Credits
- The Professional Composer - 20 Credits
- Creative Music Technology - 20 Credits
- Advancing Music Psychology - 20 Credits
- Advanced Performance - 20 Credits

Candidates may study a maximum of 40 credits from the following optional modules:
- Sound and Media - 20 Credits
- Musical Meaning - 20 Credits
- Collaborative Performance - 20 Credits
- Critical Theory for Music - 20 Credits
- Analysing Music - 20 Credits
- Digital Marketing for Musicians - 20 Credits

Candidates may study a maximum of 20 credits from the following optional modules:
- Opera North: Opera in Practice - 20 Credits

Discovery modules:

Candidates may study up to 20 credits of discovery modules instead of a 20-credit optional module.

Last updated: 30/08/2024 16:43:44

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