Music BA (Hons)

Overview

Music is a perfect choice if you love classical music and want to develop your skills in performance, composition and musicology.

We’ll give you opportunities to explore areas such as community music and performance.

Our links with Canterbury Cathedral mean you’ll get the chance to play in an incredible historic setting. We also look at the wider creative industries by looking at composition for media, film and games.

Why study Music?

The BA Music programme is a single honours programme designed for students with a background in classical music, and with an interest in the application of skills in the areas of performance, composition and musicology. You can choose from a range of optional modules in order to focus on particular areas including performance, composition and musicology and there are aspects of study which also include popular and commercial music styles.

There will be opportunities to perform, compose and record music using specialist facilities which include performance rehearsal rooms, recording studios, Apple Mac suites and surround sound mixing studios. The University is very well equipped for the teaching of music with buildings including the Maxwell Davies Building, St. Gregory’s Centre for Music and the University’s new Creative Arts building. There are many opportunities for creative collaboration with students on other programmes in the School such as with the Commercial Music and the Creative Music Production & Technology programmes, as well as with Dance, Drama and Performing Arts students.