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Qualification
Bachelor of Music (with Honours) - BMus (Hon)
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Location
Main Site
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Study mode
Full time
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Start date
11-SEP-23
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Duration
4 Years
Course summary
Music Education at Aberdeen gives you the brilliant opportunity to learn, compose and perform with world-renowned composers and musicologists, working in all genres, styles and periods, with unrivalled opportunities to grow as a musician and performer and to specialise in the skills to inspire a new generation through music education in schools. Aberdeen is the ideal environment and location in which to study music, with 500 years of outstanding musical history and heritage and a vibrant cultural identity which celebrates the traditional while embracing the modern, playing a huge role in the cultural life of north-east Scotland.Our highly-regarded BMus programme gives the benefit of broad foundation in music before choosing to specialise in teaching in the BMus (Education) programme, or the BMus (Music and Communities) opening opportunities for working with music in non-formal settings. In your first three years of your BMus (Education) programme, you will study performance, composition, theory, musicianship and a broad overview of music history which serves as the foundation for future study and specialising in your final year. You will then combine the study of music with a qualification to teach in Scottish secondary schools, including school placements in your final year. You will graduate perfectly prepared for a career in teaching music, with the additional option of applying your all-round knowledge and transferable skills should you decide to purse an alternative career such as in the media, or the music business.
Application deadline
25 January
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QUALIFICATION TYPE
A level : BBB
Music A Level at a minimum Grade B. English Minimum required: GCSE/O Level English Language AND English Literature at Grade B or above in both; or A Level English at Grade C or above.Mathematics Minimum required: GCSE Mathematics at Grade C or above, or O Level at Grade C or above.A minimum of 3 GCSE passes also required.
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