12 monthsProgramme duration
24,700 GBPTuition Fee/year
SepStarting Month
Programme overview
Main Subject
Performing Arts
Degree
MA
Study Level
Masters
Study Mode
On Campus
If you’re ready to push your musical expression, creativity and academic thinking to the next level, our MA in Music is for you.
This flexible and diverse programme is perfect for those with a wide range of musical interests and ambitions. You’ll explore your passion in a vibrant, supportive, and forward-thinking community of musicians, educators, and researchers.
Whether you're already experienced or looking to specialise, you can tailor your studies to focus on areas such as:
- Performance
- Music education
- Jazz and popular music
- Studio production
- Music and media
- Composition (notated and electronic)
- Orchestration and arranging
- Music research (historical and contemporary)
With a strong emphasis on choice and personalisation, you’ll shape your own path through a variety of thematic modules. These encourage specialisation, interdisciplinary exploration, and a collaborative ethos.
You’ll gain skills in music research, leadership, and public engagement, preparing you for a wide range of careers in the music industry and beyond.
Our research-led environment will connect you with cutting-edge work from leading scholars - both within the university and from across the wider music world.
Programme overview
Main Subject
Performing Arts
Degree
MA
Study Level
Masters
Study Mode
On Campus
If you’re ready to push your musical expression, creativity and academic thinking to the next level, our MA in Music is for you.
This flexible and diverse programme is perfect for those with a wide range of musical interests and ambitions. You’ll explore your passion in a vibrant, supportive, and forward-thinking community of musicians, educators, and researchers.
Whether you're already experienced or looking to specialise, you can tailor your studies to focus on areas such as:
- Performance
- Music education
- Jazz and popular music
- Studio production
- Music and media
- Composition (notated and electronic)
- Orchestration and arranging
- Music research (historical and contemporary)
With a strong emphasis on choice and personalisation, you’ll shape your own path through a variety of thematic modules. These encourage specialisation, interdisciplinary exploration, and a collaborative ethos.
You’ll gain skills in music research, leadership, and public engagement, preparing you for a wide range of careers in the music industry and beyond.
Our research-led environment will connect you with cutting-edge work from leading scholars - both within the university and from across the wider music world.
Admission Requirements
In order to be considered for an offer for this programme you will need to meet all of the entry requirements. Your application will not be progressed if the information and evidence listed is not provided.
With your online application you will need to provide:
- A copy of your degree certificate and transcripts which show you have achieved a 2:2 honours degree in music or another relevant subject area such as anthropology, cultural studies, film and media studies, history, politics, philosophy, or an equivalent international degree. If your degree certificate or result is pending, please upload any interim transcripts or provisional certificates.
- A copy of your IELTS certificate with an overall score of 6.5 with 5.5 in all subskills, or evidence of an accepted equivalent. Please include the date of your expected test if this qualification is pending. If you have alternative acceptable evidence, such as an undergraduate degree studied in the UK, please supply this in place of an IELTS.
- A personal statement (further guidance below).
- If your intended area of specialism is performance, please provide an unedited recording of a short, recent performance.
If you do not have a degree in a relevant area, or have not achieved a 2:2, your application may be considered if you can evidence a high level of ability in a supporting portfolio (please provide all relevant supporting evidence in your application). Two signed and dated references will be required for applicants who do not have the relevant academic qualifications.
- Candidates are required to submit references or letter(s) of recommendation for acceptance
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