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Programme Requirements for 2026/27 Session


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B.Mus. with Year Abroad Full-time

Year: 4
2026/27 Session

Students must take 40 credits of independent study selected from the modules below. Core modules: Students may take two Independent Study modules OR one Special Subject module. Core modules: Students may also take 60 credits of independent study if they wish (one Special Subject and one Independent Study module). NB You may not take the same Special Subject and Independent Study other than Musicology If Special Subject and Independent Study are taken in Musicology, topics must be well contrasted.

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 provided annually by the Department of Music up 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.

Students should aim for an even balance of credits between semesters. They may not take more than 40 credits of performance-based modules. Optional Modules: Students taking 40 credits of Independent Study: Optional Modules: Choose TWO modules in Semester 1 and TWO modules in Semester 2 Optional Modules: Students taking 60 credits of Independent Study Please note that this will imbalance your credits per semester to 70/50 or 50/70. Choose ONE module in Semester 1 and TWO modules in Semester 2 Optional Modules: OR Optional Modules: Choose TWO modules in Semester 1 and ONE module in Semester 2 Optional Modules: It may also be possible to take one or two 10+10 year-long modules if there is space. Please note that this may imbalance your credits per semester to 70/50 or 50/70. Optional Modules: Students choose additional Level H modules provided annually by the department. The following is an indicative list from Music:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
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 Studio Composition I 10 32382 10 Semester 1
LH Studio Composition II 10 32384 10 Semester 2
Advanced Jazz Composition 10 40186 20  
Anglican Church Music 1830-1960 09 20852 20 Semester 1
Dramatic Italian Vocal Music: Monteverdi & His Contemporaries 10 28315 20 Semester 1 or 2
LH Advanced Performance Skills 09 34895 20 Semester 2
LH An Introduction to Music Therapy 10 28317 20 Semester 2
LH Arts Management in Practice 09 26092 20 Semester 2
LH Baroque Analysis 09 34898 20 Semester 2
LH Beethoven’s Late Style 10 31901 20 Semester 1
LH Black Music in Britain 09 37022 20 Semester 1
LH Brahms 10 17953 20 Full Term
LH British Music Renaissance 1880 - 1914 09 21890 20 Semester 2
LH Classical Composition 10 30764 20 Semester 2
LH Eighteenth Century Counterpoint 10 19889 20 Semester 1
LH Electronic Music Studies 10 29010 20 Semester 1
LH Experimental Musics 09 37029 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 From Glinka to Glazunov 10 17935 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 Landscape, Counterpoint and Morality: The British Symphony, 1880–1960 10 28180 20 Semester 1
LH Local Musicking in Asia 10 30114 20 Semester 2
LH Love, Death, Religion and Music in the Renaissance 10 29026 20 Semester 2
LH Minimalism 10 30107 20 Semester 1 or 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 Scholarship and Bibliography 09 34905 20 Semester 1 or 2
LH Music and Emotion 10 30766 20 Semester 2
LH Music and Gender 09 37031 20 Semester 2
LH Music and Globalisation 10 28581 20 Semester 1
LH Music in Britain 1870–1914 09 37043 20  
LH Music in the Weimar Republic and Third Reich 10 23585 20 Semester 1
LH Music, Nations and Nationalism 1789 - 1945 10 26801 20 Full Term
LH Music, Protest and Social Activism 10 30113 20 Semester 1 or 2
LH Notation and Editorial Practice 09 29153 20 Semester 1
LH Ralph Vaughan Williams and his World 10 31927 20 Semester 2
LH Sound Recording and Sound Design 10 31899 20 Semester 1
LH Sounding Image 10 28347 20 Semester 1
LH Stravinsky 09 25133 20 Semester 2
LH Studies in Performance Practice 10 27209 20 Semester 2
LH The Blues 09 24206 20 Semester 1
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 Perception of Sound and Music 10 30108 20 Semester 1 or 2
LH The Romantic Piano: Chopin and his Legacy 10 28177 20 Semester 1
LH The Sixties 09 24205 20 Semester 1
LH The Symphony: Prestige and Politics 10 37045 20 Semester 1
LH The Wagner Brand 10 37047 20 Semester 2
LH Tonality: An Introduction 09 22594 20 Semester 1
LH Vienna: Study of a Musical City 10 37659 20 Semester 1
The Singers’ Survival Guide: the effects of commercial opera on singing culture in the Later Baroque Period 09 25274 20 Semester 2

Students may also apply to undertake a Professional Skills module at level H. If successful this will be taken in place of one of their semester 1 taught modules. The placement can be taken either during the summer vacation (part-time or full-time) or during semester 1 part-time only). The placement must be completed prior to the Christmas vacation. Students who undertook a Professional Skills module at level I will not be able to undertake a Professional Skills module at level H.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Professional Skills 09 36876 20 Semester 1
LH Professional Skills - Freelance 09 37013 20 Semester 1