Overview

This programme at the University of Leeds offers a flexible route through the study of music, drawing on genres, styles, and cultural contexts from around the world to explore key musical concepts and theories. Students develop as creative, critical, and reflective thinkers, gaining the skills to work independently as musicians once they graduate.

What You'll Learn

• Collaborative performance and the skills needed for successful group music-making

• Thematic exploration of music across historical, contemporary, Western, and global contexts

• Musicological, practice-based, and empirical research methods

• Optional specialisms such as composition, film music, music business, music psychology, and music technology

• How musical practice reflects and shapes society

• Applying musical knowledge and expertise beyond university study

• An independent research project exploring an area of music of the student's own choosing

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, students will be able to critically analyse and interpret music from a wide range of traditions and contexts. They will be able to apply appropriate research methods to musical questions, whether musicological, practice-based, or empirical. Students will also be able to work effectively and professionally in collaborative musical settings, and to design and carry out independent research into an area of music that reflects their own interests and ambitions.