Programme Requirements for 2025/26 Session


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B.A. Music and Mathematics with Year Abroad Full-time

Year: 4
2025/26 Session

Choose 60 credits from the following:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Differential Equations 06 27143 20 Semester 2
Combinatorics and Communication Theory 06 19601 20 Full Term
Graph Theory 06 19592 20 Full Term
LH Algebra & Combinatorics 2 06 27142 20 Semester 2
LH Linear Algebra & Linear Programming 06 28512 20 Full Term
LH Linear Programming 06 24561 10 Semester 2
LH Multivariable and Vector Analysis 06 35172 20 Semester 1
LH Research Skills in Mathematics 06 23753 20 Full Term
LH Statistics 06 27147 20 Semester 2
Mathematical Finance 06 20444 20 Full Term
Number Theory 06 22498 20 Full Term
Numerical Methods & Programming 06 27145 10 Semester 1
Real & Complex Analysis 06 27146 20 Full Term

Students must take a 20 or 40 credits independent study module selected from among the following modules: Students may take one Independent Study OR one Special Subject OR one of each if not in the same discipline.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Musicology Dissertation (Independent Study) 10 22642 20 Full Term
LH Paper Composition (Independent Study) 10 22643 20 Full Term
LH Solo Performance (Independent Study) 09 22028 20 Full Term
LH Special Subject Musicology 10 23477 40 Full Term
LH Special Subject Paper Composition 10 23479 40 Full Term
LH Special Subject Solo Performance 10 23480 40 Full Term
LH Special Subject Studio Composition 10 23478 40 Full Term
LH Studio Composition (Independent Study) 10 22644 20 Full Term

In addition to the independent study module(s), students choose additional Level H modules from the Department of Music to the relevant credit value for their respective programme, to a combined total of 120 credits.

Availability of particular modules varies from year to year and is subject to timetabling constraints and other conditions. Please contact the Department for further details. 

Module Title Code Credits Semester
Composing for the Creative Industries A 10 39775 10 Semester 1
Composing for the Creative Industries B 10 39776 10 Semester 2
LH Conducting I 10 31913 10 Semester 1
LH Conducting II 10 31915 10 Semester 2
LH Orchestration I 10 31919 10 Semester 1
LH Orchestration II 10 31921 10 Semester 2
LH Studio Composition I 10 32382 10 Semester 1
LH Studio Composition II 10 32384 10 Semester 2
Dramatic Italian Vocal Music: Monteverdi & His Contemporaries 10 28315 20 Semester 1
LH An Introduction to Music Therapy 10 28317 20 Semester 2
LH Black Music in Britain 09 37022 20 Semester 2
LH British Music Renaissance 1880 - 1914 09 21890 20 Semester 2
LH Classical Composition 10 30764 20 Semester 2
LH Composing for Voice 09 38734 20 Semester 2
LH Electronic Music Studies 10 29010 20 Semester 1
LH Fieldwork Methods 10 39405 20 Semester 1
LH Film Music Techniques and History 09 30260 20 Semester 1
LH Film Music Techniques and History (Sem 2) 09 34409 20 Semester 2
LH Gustav Mahler: The Philosophy of Music 09 30834 20 Semester 1
LH Introduction to Jazz Styles: 1920 to 1980 10 27205 20 Semester 1
LH Introduction to Sound Recording A 10 39756 10 Semester 1
LH Introduction to Sound Recording B 10 39757 10 Semester 2
LH Local Musicking in Asia 10 30114 20 Semester 2
LH Music Cognition 10 31917 20 Semester 1
LH Music Education 09 31052 20 Semester 2
LH Music Festivals 10 29056 20 Semester 2
LH Music and Emotion 10 30766 20 Semester 1
LH Music and Gender 09 37031 20 Semester 2
LH Music in the Weimar Republic and Third Reich 10 23585 20 Semester 1
LH Musicology Dissertation (Independent Study) 10 22642 20 Full Term
LH Paper Composition (Independent Study) 10 22643 20 Full Term
LH Postsocialist Music and Ethnography 10 31925 20  
LH Professional Skills 09 36876 20 Semester 1
LH Solo Performance (Independent Study) 09 22028 20 Full Term
LH Sound Studies 09 38731 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject Musicology 10 23477 40 Full Term
LH Special Subject Paper Composition 10 23479 40 Full Term
LH Special Subject Solo Performance 10 23480 40 Full Term
LH Special Subject Studio Composition 10 23478 40 Full Term
LH Stravinsky 09 25133 20 Semester 2
LH Studies in Performance Practice 10 27209 20 Semester 2
LH Studio Composition (Independent Study) 10 22644 20 Full Term
LH The Broadway Musical from Show Boat to Sondheim 10 29015 20 Semester 1
LH The Broadway Musical from Show Boat to Sondheim (Sem 2) 10 34404 20 Semester 2
LH The Romantic Piano: Chopin and his Legacy 10 28177 20 Semester 1
LH The Sixties 09 24205 20 Semester 1
LH The Wagner Brand 10 37047 20 Semester 1
LI Music for Games 10 40438 20 Semester 2
LI Traditional Music in Britain and Ireland 10 40439 20 Semester 1

Students who have taken LI 37673 Sustainable Development: Climate, Culture, Society and Policy cannot take the LH version of this module.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Sustainable Development: Climate, Culture, Society and Policy 09 38933 20 Semester 1