BA (Hons) Music Performance and Production

• A Level: Must include passes at A2 in at least one subject.
• BTEC: Extended Diploma (QCF) or Diploma (QCF)
• International Baccalaureate: Diploma with 27 points including a minimum of 15 points at Higher Level.
• Other equivalent qualifications accepted by the university.

Note: We would normally expect you to have Grade C in GCSE English and Maths (See below for accepted equivalences)

English Language Requirements:

• Overall IELTS 5.5 with a minimum of 5.5 in Writing and Speaking; minimum 5.5 in Reading and Listening (or recognised equivalent).

In your first year, you’ll learn basic skills in areas such as musical arrangements and solo and group performance. You’ll become more professional about your music.                                                                           

In your second year, you‘ll pursue your own identity as a songwriter or performer. You’ll also think more about how you’re going to produce your music.

Over the three years, your theoretical studies will include music history, investigations into how technology affects the composition and consumption of music and explorations into how sound connects with the body.

By the third year, you’ll bring all your knowledge together to fashion a professional portfolio in your chosen field ready to present to the music world.

Year 1

• Computer Music 1: Electronic Dance Music 
• Performance Skills 1: Collaboration and Improvisation
• Music Skills 1: Practical Musicianship 
• Contextual Studies 1: History of Music Genre 

Year 2

• Computer Music 2: Music and Moving Image 
• Performance Skills 2: Live Performance 
• Music Skills 2: The Songwriter’s Identity 
• Contextual Studies 2: Music Technology, Industry and Writing 

Year 3

• Staging Philosophies 
• Computer Music 3: Live Electronic Sound 
• Contextual Studies 3: Music, Sound and the Body
• Professional Practice 
• Final Project