Undergraduate Handbook 2026-2027
Music
Programmes
- W300: BA Music
- W302: BA Music (with Year Abroad)
- WV53: BA Music and Philosophy (Last intake of students October 2025)
- W3V5: BA Music and Philosophy (with Year Abroad) (Last intake of students October 2025)
- W3V6: BA Music and Philosophy with Placement Year (Last intake of students October 2025)
- W303: BA Music with Placement Year
Modules
- MUSI1211: Historical Composition Techniques
- MUSI1241: Performance 1: Practice through History (with recital)
- MUSI1251: Introduction to Ethnomusicology
- MUSI1261: Historical Studies 1 (not available in 2026)
- MUSI1271: Composition 1: 20th-Century Innovations
- MUSI1281: Analysis 1: Elements of Western Tonal Theory and Practice
- MUSI1291: Performance 1: Practice through History (with essay)
- MUSI1301: What is the History of Western Music?
- MUSI1311: Study Skills in Music (not available in 2026)
- MUSI2311: Composition 2: New Directions in Art Music
- MUSI2541: Orchestration
- MUSI2581: Conducting
- MUSI2601: Advanced Historical Composition Techniques
- MUSI2611: Analysis 2: Theory and Analysis of Western Music, 1700-1950
- MUSI2641: Creative Music Technology
- MUSI2651: Studies in the History of Opera
- MUSI2661: World Music Traditions (not available in 2026)
- MUSI2671: Studies in Popular Music
- MUSI2691: Defining Music in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
- MUSI2711: Performance 2: Practice as Research
- MUSI2731: Music and Science
- MUSI2751: Topics in the Philosophy of Music
- MUSI2771: The Music of India
- MUSI2791: Music and Place
- MUSI3041: Dissertation
- MUSI3071: Composition 3: Portfolio (single)
- MUSI3312: Composition 3: Portfolio (double)
- MUSI3332: Dissertation (double)
- MUSI3611: Contemporary Music Performance
- MUSI3621: Performance 3: Performance Project (single)
- MUSI3631: Time and Rhythm (not available in 2026)
- MUSI3672: Performance 3: Performance Project (double)
- MUSI3691: Advanced Ethnomusicology
- MUSI3711: Music Theology
- MUSI3721: Studies in Symphonic Analysis
- MUSI3731: Words and Music (not available in 2026)
- MUSI3741: Music and Politics in France, 1789-1815
- MUSI3751: Techniques Portfolio (single)
- MUSI3762: Techniques Portfolio (double)
- MUSI3781: Psychology of Music
- MUSI3821: The Keyboard in Theory, Analysis and Practice, 1700-2000 (not available in 2026)