BMus Honours
UCAS Code - W302
Degree Programme - BMus Hons
Year - 1-3
No. of Music Credits - 120 credits per year
“During my studies at Cardiff I was fortunate to have regular one-to- one vocal training by a professional vocal tutor. I could not have asked for better training or a more enthusiastic tutor."
- Rhiannon Owen (Porthcawl, South Wales)
Download the 2012-13 Module Catalogue (PDF)
There are a number of compulsory modules that BMus students must complete throughout their studies; these are identified by an asterisk in the tables below.
120 Music credits must be completed each academic year, and these must be selected from those offered within the School. A selection of the current modules available in Music are detailed below; these are subject to change each academic year as we continue to refine the programme:
| Year 1 |
- The Full Works (t)
- Composition 1a
- Ethnomusicology I: Music in Human Life
- From Page to Stage: Dramaturgy in Musical Theatre
- Practical Musicianship I*
- 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
- Fundamental Acoustics
* = Compulsory for BMus (t) = taught in small groups |
| Year 2 |
Year 3 (Final Year) |
- Composition II
- Orchestration I
- Practical Musicianship II
- Russian Music up to 1914
- Analysing 20th Century Music
- Music and Idea: from Enlightenment to Romanticism
- Performance Practice
- Formal Functions in the Classical Tradition*
- Studio Techniques I: MIDI and Synthesisers
- Orchestration II
- British Music in the 20th Century
- Opera from Handel to Weber
- Introduction to Schenkerian Analysis
- Jazz in the Modern World
- Ethnomusicology II: Music in Cross-Culture Perspective
- Issues in Popular Music
- Practical Musicianship II
- Style Wars in Baroque Music
- Music for the Masses
- Contrapuntal Practice 1750-1900
* = Compulsory for BMus |
- Composition III (1-1)
- Recital (1-1)
- Project in Music Analysis (1-1)
- Composition (1-1)
- Project in Ethnomusicology (1-1)
- Dissertation
- Practical Musicianship III (ensemble)
- The Birth of Modernism
- Nineteenth Century Italian Opera
- The Romantic Opera
- Studio Techniques II
- 20th Century Contrapuntal Practice
- The Birth of Modernism
- Innovation and Tradition in French Music
- Stravinsky & the Twentieth Century
- Notation and Editing of Early Music
- The Culture of Beethoven
- Fugue
1-1 = one-to-one teaching |
