BA Single Honours
UCAS Code - W300
Degree Programme - BA Single Hons (Music)
Year 1 - No. of Music Credits - 80
Year 2 - No. of Music Credits - Minimum 100 credits
Year 3 - No. of Music Credits - Minimum 100 credits
“I decided to study Music at Cardiff as a number of friends who had previously studied at the School highly recommended it, and they have all gone to have successful careers within the field."
- Ciara Read (Colorado, USA)
If you decide to opt for this route you will be required to complete a minimum number of credits per academic year in the School of Music.
Download the 2012-13 Module Catalogue (PDF)
| Year 1 |
- The Full Works (t)
- Composition 1a
- Ethnomusicology I: Music in Human Life
- From Page to Stage
- Practical*
- Repertoire Studies*(t)
- A History of Popular Music
- Elements of Tonal Music I* (t)
- The History of Musical Instruments
- Elements of Tonal Music II* (t)
- Composition 1b
* = Compulsory for BMus (t) = taught in small groups |
| Year 2 |
Year 3 (Final Year) |
- Composition II
- Harmonic Practice 1750-1900
- Orchestration I
- From Worksongs to Bebop
- Russian Music up to 1914
- Analysing 20th Century Music
- Music and Idea
- Performance Practice
- Formal Functions in the Classical Tradition*
- Studio Techniques I: MIDI and Synthesisers
- French Music and National Identity
- Orchestration II
- British Music in the 20th Century
- Opera from Handel to Weber
- Introduction to Schenkerian Analysis
- Jazz in the Modern World
- Ethnomusicology II
- Issues in Popular Music
- Practical Musicianship II
- Style Wars in Baroque Music
* = Compulsory for BMus |
- Composition III (1-1)
- Recital (1-1)
- Project in Music Analysis (1-1)
- Composition (1-1)
- Project in Ethnomusicology (1-1)
- The Birth of Modernism
- Nineteenth Century Italian Opera
- The Romantic Opera
- Studio Techniques II
- 20th Century Contrapuntal Practice
- The Birth of Modernism
- Polish Music and the Search for Identity
- Innovation and Tradition in French Music
- Idea of Absolute Music
- Stravinsky & the Twentieth Century
- Notation and Editing of Early Music
- The Culture of Beethoven
1-1 = one-to-one teaching |
