2024/25 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue

MArts, BA Music and Music Psychology (Integrated Masters) (For students entering from September 2024 onwards)

Total credits: 480

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 from September 2024. For students who entered the programme before September 2024, you can find the details of your programme: MArts, BA Music and Music Psychology (Intergraded)

Our unique MArts, BA Music and Music Psychology is the only course of its type in the country. As an Integrated Masters course, you’ll study for four years and graduate with both a masters (MArts) and bachelors (BA) qualification in music and music psychology.

The core of the course balances modules focused on music psychology with those drawing 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, musician and music psychologist, ready for life after university. The first two years maintain a dual core of music and music psychology, with the proportion of credits taken in music psychology increasing in the final two years. You can personalise your course in all years by choosing optional modules from a broad range of areas – including aesthetics, analysis, contemporary composition, film music, the music business, musicology, 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 research, explore a range of theoretical, creative and applied aspects of music and music psychology, and develop a set of valuable subject-specific and transferrable skills. You’ll have opportunities to work independently and collaboratively, developing 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 is unique to Leeds.

Year1 - View timetable

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Compulsory modules:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules

Optional modules:

Candidates must study exactly 120 credits overall.  

Candidates are required to study 40 credits of optional modules in total. This may include 20 credits of Discovery modules.  

Candidates may study a maximum of 20 credits from the following optional modules: 

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

Discovery modules:

Candidates may study 20 credits of Discovery modules in place of a 20-credit optional module.

Year2 - View timetable

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We are currently refreshing our courses to make sure students have the best possible experience. Where there is no module code link below the full module details are not yet available. Before you are required to enrol on a module full details will be provided.

Compulsory modules:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:
- Researching Music  - 20 Credits
- Psychology of Listening and Performance  - 20 Credits
- Therapeutic Applications of Music - 20 Credits

Optional modules:

Candidates are required to study 40 credits of optional modules in total. This may include 20 credits of Discovery modules. 

Candidates must study exactly 120 credits overall.  



Candidates are required to study 40 credits of optional modules in total. This may include 20 credits of Discovery modules. 

Candidates may study a maximum of 20 credits from the following optional modules: 
- Music and Politics - 20 Credits
- Cultures of Performance - 20 Credits
- Marketing for Musicians - 20 Credits
- Creating and Producing Music for Screen Media - 20 Credits
- Notation Studies - 20 Credits

Candidates may study a maximum of 20 credits from the following optional modules: 
- Sound and Media - 20 Credits
- Musical Meaning - 20 Credits
- Aesthetics and Criticism - 20 Credits
- Leading an Ensemble - 20 Credits
- Collaborative Performance - 20 Credits
- Applied Music Technology - 20 Credits

Candidates may study a maximum of 40 credits from the following optional modules: 
- Opera North: Opera in Practice - 20 Credits
- Composing New Music - 20 Credits
- Performance - 20 Credits

Discovery modules:

Candidates may study 20 credits of Discovery modules in place 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. Where there is no module code link below the full module details are not yet available. Before you are required to enrol on a module full details will be provided.

Compulsory modules:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:

- Researching Music Psychology - 40 Credits
- Music Beyond Graduation - 20 Credits
- Advancing Music Psychology - 20 Credits

Optional modules:

Candidates are required to study 40 credits of optional modules in total. This may include 20 credits of Discovery modules.

Candidates must study exactly 120 credits overall.

Candidates are required to study 40 credits of optional modules in total. This may include 20 credits of Discovery modules.

Candidates may study a maximum of 20 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
- Advanced Performance - 20 Credits
- Opera North: Opera in Practice - 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

Discovery modules:

Candidates may study 20 credits of Discovery modules in place of a 20-credit optional module.

Year4 - View timetable

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

We are currently refreshing our courses to make sure students have the best possible experience. Where there is no module code link below the full module details are not yet available. Before you are required to enrol on a module full details will be provided.

Compulsory modules:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules

Optional modules:

Candidates must study exactly 120 credits overall. This may include 30 credits of Discovery modules.

Candidates may study a maximum of 30 credits from the following optional modules:

Discovery modules:

In exceptional circumstances and following discussion with the programme leader candidates may take 30-credits of Masters modules from elsewhere in the university.

Year5 - View timetable

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