Music Production and Musical Theatre (with Foundation Year) BA (Hons)

This is a four year degree taught at our Hope Park campus. The Foundation Year aims to develop your skills so that after a year, you will be equipped with the necessary skills needed for studying the full BA Hons degree programme.MUSICAL THEATREThe growth in importance and popularity of Musical Theatre in the last few years is staggering – being of significant importance to the economies of most of the UKs major cities. This trend of increasing revenue, performances and size of audiences continues to grow year-on-year and has significant impact on a regional, national and global level.This new programme will allow the study of Musical Theatre from a performative, compositional as well as directorial/production vantage points.On this course you will study the creative, conceptual interactions that exist between words, music and movement, underpinning the threefold performative relationships between music, dance and acting that communicate and express the art form.This course will allow you to develop your:• performative skills across dance, singing and acting• ability to analyse past works of Musical Theatre• capacity to compose an original piece of Musical Theatre• techniques of direction and producing works of Musical Theatre• knowledge of the business management of Musical Theatre.MUSIC PRODUCTIONThe study of Music Production gives you the opportunity to investigate the creative, technical and theoretical exploration of one of the most mysterious art forms. All while being exposed to aspects of the music business and industry, as well as its many historical and theoretical concepts.Drawing on the diverse musical heritage of Liverpool, students of Music at Liverpool Hope explore the production of musical performance and composition of music across a broad range of topics and genres, such as popular, classical, jazz and electronic. Your studies will focus on music production and will be underpinned by technical, theoretical and historical areas of enquiry, led by staff with a broad range of teaching, professional and research specialisms.