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Faculty of Music : Guide to courses
The BMus course is designed to provide students with a perspective for the discipline of music and the specialist knowledge and skills that should prepare them for a professional career in music.
The Bachelor of Music course has as its objectives that graduates:
can demonstrate the professional musical skills and expertise required to enable them to take their place in the community as teachers, performers, composers, music therapists, musicologists, or in a range of occupations requiring musical ability;
can apply critical and analytical skills, an independent approach to knowledge and intellectual understanding of music in a broad and changing range of social and historical contexts;
can communicate effectively as promoters of an informed interest in music and the performance of music among scholars as well as in the wider community; and
have a continuing commitment to music learning informed by current research.
The first two years is common to all BMus students. In second year, students who wish to prepare for a career in music therapy, music teaching or composition follow the course prescribed for that specialisation. BMus(Performance) students are expected to study intensively the instrument with which they completed the entrance requirement without change or interruption for the duration of their course. Those who complete Music Performance 2 with excellent results may then proceed to Music Performance 3 then 4.
All students in the Music Therapy stream receive group tuition over two years in various instruments important to their work, and students in the Performance course pattern are encouraged to take a Second Practical Study (when available).
All other students take the compulsory BMus core and have a wide choice of subject combinations. Those preparing for careers in solo or orchestral performance may give their course an intensively practical orientation; those interested in musicology focus on academic subjects.
All BMus students take an intensive aural training subject, a program of ensemble work, a sequence of theoretical studies, and a comprehensive music literature requirement. In Ensemble they are allocated by the Dean to one or more of the Faculty's performing groups. Currently, these include the Faculty Orchestra, Choir, Chamber Choir, Baroque Ensemble, Contemporary Ensemble, Big Band, Early Music Ensemble and a number of others. These ensembles are dependent on attendance, and full participation is expected.
Attendance at public concerts is also regarded as important, and all BMus students are required to attend and write short reports on a minimum of ten concerts approved by the Faculty each year.
All candidates for the degree shall, during the four years of their studies, complete subjects in another faculty of no less than 25 credit points to a maximum of 50 points approved in advance by the Faculty of Music.
While the Music Therapy course is largely fixed in its structure, there is considerable flexibility for all other students. Beyond the core subjects, students may focus their course according to their aspirations or interests into, at one extreme, an intensively practical study program or, at the other extreme, a largely academic degree.
Students are advised to consider their career interests and make their subject choices accordingly. In preparing for certain careers, the following patterns are recommended.
The first two years of the BMus, irrespective of the specialisation, are listed above. The specialisation years are as follows:
Students preparing for careers as composers or arrangers take Composition 1 in either first or second year, and choose applied electives involving technical skills. Some grounding in aesthetics, art history, mathematics or linguistics might also be desirable. A suggested pattern is:
| Composition stream | ||
|---|---|---|
| Third year | Points | |
| 740-327 Composition 2 | 25.0 | |
| and Electives | ||
| or | ||
| 740-427 Composition 3 | 50.0 | |
| Plus: | ||
| 740-385 Music Techniques 3 | 12.5 | |
| 740-342 Orchestration and Arrangement | 12.5 | |
| 740-308 Ensemble 3-1 | 6.25 | |
| 740-344 Ensemble 3-2 | 6.25 | |
| Elective | ||
| Fourth year | ||
| 740-427 Composition 3 | 50.0 | |
| or | ||
| 740-435 Composition 4 | 50.0 | |
| Plus: | ||
| 740-480 Conducting | 12.5 | |
| 740-386 Music Analysis | 12.5 | |
| 740-404 Ensemble 4-1 | 6.25 | |
| 740-403 Ensemble 4-2 | 6.25 | |
| Elective | ||
| Total Points | 400.0 | |
This course aims to provide specialist education and training in the performance of music principally of the medieval, renaissance and baroque periods on historical instruments and according to historical performance practices, together with the scholarly studies related to the discipline. In addition to this, it shares the common objectives of the Bachelor of Music course.
| Early Music stream | ||
|---|---|---|
| Third year | Points | |
| 740-306 Music Performance 3 | 50.0 | |
| 740-308 Ensemble 3-1 | 6.25 | |
| 740-344 Ensemble 3-2 | 6.25 | |
| 740-385 Music Techniques 3 | 12.5 | |
| Elective | ||
| and | ||
| 740-241 Basso Continuo | 12.5 | |
| or | ||
| 740-239 Performance Practice (Early Music) | 12.5 | |
| Fourth year | ||
| 740-406 Music Performance 4 | 50 | |
| 740-404 Ensemble 4-1 | 6.25 | |
| 740-403 Ensemble 4-2 | 6.25 | |
| Electives | ||
| and | ||
| 740-241 Basso Continuo | 12.5 | |
| or | ||
| 740-239 Performance Practice (Early Music) | 12.5 | |
| Total Points | 400.0 | |
This course is aimed at students who wish to prepare for a career in studio teaching.
| Instrumental/Vocal Teaching stream | ||
|---|---|---|
| Third year | Points | |
| One of: | ||
| 740-306 Music Performance 3 | 50.0 | |
| or | ||
| 740-331 Performance Workshop 1 | 25.0 | |
| 740-488 Performance Teaching 1 | 12.5 | |
| 740-482 Performance Teaching 2 | 12.5 | |
| or | ||
| 740-488 Performance Teaching 1 | 12.5 | |
| 740-482 Performance Teaching 2 | 12.5 | |
| 740-359 Musicological Research Method 1 | 12.5 | |
| Plus: | ||
| 740-385 Music Techniques 3 | 12.5 | |
| 740-386 Music Analysis | 12.5 | |
| 740-308 Ensemble 3-1 | 6.25 | |
| 740-344 Ensemble 3-2 | 6.25 | |
| Electives | ||
| Fourth year | ||
| One of: | ||
| 740-406 Music Performance 4 | 50 | |
| or | ||
| 740-339 Performance Workshop 2 | 25.0 | |
| and music electives | ||
| or | ||
| music electives and | ||
| 740-431 Musicological Research Methods 2 | 25.0 | |
| Plus: | ||
| Electives | ||
| 740-404 Ensemble 4-1 | 6.25 | |
| 740-403 Ensemble 4-2 | 6.25 | |
| 740-426 Work Experience & Career Preparation | 25 | |
| Total Points | 400.0 | |
This course is designed for students seeking careers as music therapists in health or special education. The music therapy course combines training in appropriate musical skills with psychology, physiology, social and clinical studies.
Quota: Owing to the limited availability of clinical placements, a quota of 8 undergraduate students applies for entry to the third year of this course, based on the work in Applied Music Skills - Therapy and academic studies in year 2. Selection is determined at a meeting of the Board of Examiners in early December and students are advised by letter from the Dean whether or not they have been successful.
This course aims to develop students' understanding and knowledge of music, musical scholarship and research methods to prepare them as professional musicologists. Students will complete advanced seminars in music history, theory, research methodology and systematic disciplines such as analysis, aesthetics, historiography and palaeography. A dissertation presenting the results of a substantial project is the culminating point of the course.
Students choose this stream in preparation for careers in music criticism, librarianship, journalism, research, editing, radio and television music programming, or other branches of musicology.
| Musicology/Ethnomusicology stream | ||
|---|---|---|
| Third year | Points | |
| 740-359 Musicological Research Method 1 | 12.5 | |
| 740-385 Music Techniques 3 | 12.5 | |
| 740-386 Music Analysis | 12.5 | |
| 740-308 Ensemble 3-1 | 6.25 | |
| 740-344 Ensemble 3-2 | 6.25 | |
| *Electives | ||
| Fourth year | ||
| 740-462 Dissertation | 50 | |
| 740-431 Musicological Research Methods 2 | 12.5 | |
| 740-404 Ensemble 4-1 | 6.25 | |
| 740-403 Ensemble 4-2 | 6.25 | |
| *Electives | ||
| * Three of the five electives must be chosen from the Academic electives list. | ||
| Total Points | 400.0 | |
Students preparing for careers in solo or orchestral performance should take the maximum number of practical subjects such as Chamber Music and Keyboard Accompaniment. A european language subject may be desirable.
To gain entry into this steam, you must obtain a place in the quota; as a guide this normally means a result no lower than 85% in Music Performance 2. To enter Music Performance 4, a result of no lower than 90% in Practical Study 3 is required (for students who commenced the course prior to 1998).
| Performance | ||
|---|---|---|
| Third year | Points | |
| 740-306 Music Performance 3 | 50.0 | |
| 740-385 Music Techniques 3 | 12.5 | |
| 740-308 Ensemble 3-1 | 6.25 | |
| 740-344 Ensemble 3-2 | 6.25 | |
| Either | ||
| 740-267 Chamber Music 1 | 12.5 | |
| or | ||
| 740-268 Keyboard Accompaniment | 25 | |
| and Electives | ||
| Fourth year | ||
| 740-406 Music Performance 4 | 50.0 | |
| 740-480 Conducting | 12.5 | |
| 740-404 Ensemble 4-1 | 6.25 | |
| 740-403 Ensemble 4-2 | 6.25 | |
| Electives | ||
| Total Points | 400.0 | |
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