DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2025/2026

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Music

SCQF Level 07 (1 courses)

Code	Availability	Course Name	Period	Credits
MUSI07001	SV1	Fundamentals of Music Theory	Semester 1	20

SCQF Level 08 (16 courses)

Code	Availability	Course Name	Period	Credits
MUSI08083	SS1	An Introduction to Musical Instruments	Semester 2	20
MUSI08079	SV1	Architectural Acoustics and Spatial Sound	Semester 2	20
MUSI08080	SV1	Composing for Voices and Instruments	Semester 2	20
MUSI08057	SV1	Creative Music Technology	Semester 1	20
MUSI08077	SV1	Creative Musicianship	Full Year	20
MUSI08085	SV1	Introduction to Audio Machine Learning	Semester 1	20
MUSI08069	SV1	Music 1A: Psychology of Music	Semester 2	20
MUSI08076	SV1	Music Analysis	Semester 1	20
MUSI08073	SS1	Performance 1	Full Year	20
MUSI08074	SS1	Performance 2	Full Year	20
MUSI08054	SV1	Sound Recording	Semester 2	20
MUSI08075	SS1	Thinking about Music	Semester 1	20
MUSI08078	SV1	Topics in Popular Music	Semester 2	20
MUSI08084	SV1	Understanding Music History 1: Critical Approaches to Art Music in Europe, c800-1800	Semester 1	20
MUSI08081		Understanding Music History 1: Critical Approaches to Music from the Middle Ages to the Late Eighteenth Century	Not delivered this year	20
MUSI08082	SV1	Understanding Music History 2: The Idea of Western Art Music from Romanticism to the Late Twentieth Century	Semester 2	20

SCQF Level 10 (44 courses)

Code	Availability	Course Name	Period	Credits
MUSI10118	SV1	Acoustics (Level 10)	Semester 1	20
MUSI10111	SS1	Acoustics and Music Technology Undergraduate Dissertation	Full Year	40
MUSI10105		Approaches to Creative Keyboard Practice	Not delivered this year	20
MUSI10114	SV1	Audio Crafting (UG)	Semester 1	20
MUSI10119	SV1	Audio Machine Learning (UG)	Semester 2	20
MUSI10108	SV1	Audio Programming	Semester 2	20
MUSI10109	SV1	Composing for Screen (UG)	Semester 2	20
MUSI10085		Composition 3	Not delivered this year	20
MUSI10037		Composition 4	Not delivered this year	40
MUSI10088		Contemporary Issues in Psychology of Music	Not delivered this year	20
MUSI10100	SV1	Creative Coding for Sound	Semester 1	20
MUSI10092	SS1	Creative Practice Music Project	Full Year	40
MUSI10016	SS1	Dissertation in Music	Full Year	40
MUSI10072		Film Music post-1950	Not delivered this year	20
MUSI10002		Harmony 3	Not delivered this year	20
MUSI10090	SV1	Improvisation as Social Process	Semester 2	20
MUSI10106	SV1	Instrumentation and Timbre	Semester 1	20
MUSI10113	SV1	Interactive Sound Environments	Semester 2	20
MUSI10102	SV1	Jazz Studies: Critical Perspectives on Music and Culture	Semester 1	20
MUSI10101	SV1	Medieval Afterlives: Music and Cultural Imagination	Semester 2	20
MUSI10089		Music Analysis 3	Not delivered this year	20
MUSI10065		Music Technology Project	Not delivered this year	40
MUSI10067		Music and Human Communication	Not delivered this year	20
MUSI10081	SV1	Music and State Socialism in the Twentieth Century	Semester 2	20
MUSI10095	SV1	Music and its Instruments	Semester 1	20
MUSI10038	SS1	Music in the Community 3	Full Year	40
MUSI10039	SS1	Music in the Community 4	Full Year	40
MUSI10116		Music, Racism and Western Ideology	Not delivered this year	20
MUSI10055	SV1	Musical Applications of Fourier Theory and Digital Signal Processing	Semester 1	20
MUSI10097		Notation and Editing of Early Music	Not delivered this year	20
MUSI10086	SS1	Performance 3	Full Year	20
MUSI10076	SV1	Physics-based Modelling of Musical Instruments	Semester 2	20
MUSI10115	SV1	Portfolio of Compositions	Full Year	40
MUSI10021	SS1	Recital	Full Year	40
MUSI10066	SV1	Research Methods in Music	Semester 2	20
MUSI10099		Screen Music History: texts and contexts	Not delivered this year	20
MUSI10117	SV1	Sounding Documentary: voices, texts, contexts	Semester 1	20
MUSI10112	SV1	Soundtracks for Screen (UG)	Semester 2	20
MUSI10083		Special History in Music: Mendelssohn and the making of 19th-century Musical Culture	Not delivered this year	20
MUSI10073	SV1	The Kodaly Approach to Music Education	Semester 1	20
MUSI10110	SS1	The Musical Brain: Reading and Understanding Experimental Research	Semester 2	20
MUSI10104	SV1	The Musicology of War	Semester 1	20
MUSI10107	SV1	Three Minute Records: Case Studies in Popular Music	Semester 2	20
MUSI10103		Venice: Music and Culture, 1690-1740	Not delivered this year	20

SCQF Level 11 (35 courses)

Code	Availability	Course Name	Period	Credits
MUSI11047		Acoustics	Not delivered this year	20
MUSI11076	SV1	Acoustics (Level 11)	Semester 1	20
MUSI11035	SS1	Acoustics and Music Technology: Final Project	Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond	60
MUSI11063	SV1	Audio Crafting	Semester 1	20
MUSI11078	SV1	Audio Machine Learning (PG)	Semester 2	20
MUSI11066	SV1	Audio Programming	Semester 2	20
MUSI11071	SV1	Composing for Screen	Semester 2	20
MUSI11067	SV1	Creative Coding for Sound	Semester 1	20
ARCH11006	SV1	Digital Media Studio Project	Semester 2	20
ARCH11032	SS1	Dissertation for MSc by Research in Sound Design	Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond	100
MUSI11068	SS1	Instrumentation and Timbre	Semester 1	20
ARCH11010	SV1	Interactive Sound Environments	Semester 2	20
MUSI11053	SV1	Introduction to Community Arts Practice: Modes, Methods and Meanings	Semester 1	20
MUSI11051		Introduction to Musicology	Not delivered this year	20
MUSI11006	SS1	MMus Dissertation	Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond	60
MUSI11014		MMus Individual Research Project	Not delivered this year	20
MUSI11015		MMus Research Methods A	Not delivered this year	20
MUSI11030	SV1	MSc by Research in Music - Dissertation	Full Year	140
MUSI11029	SV1	MSc by Research in Music - Portfolio	Full Year	140
MUSI11050		Making sense of popular music	Not delivered this year	20
MUSI11069	SV1	Medieval Afterlives: Critical Approaches to Music and Medievalism	Semester 2	20
MUSI11061	SS1	Music Masters Final Project	Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond	60
MUSI11074		Music and Human Communication (PG)	Not delivered this year	20
MUSI11045	SS1	Music on Screen	Semester 1	20
MUSI11052		Music, Philosophy and Politics	Not delivered this year	20
MUSI11073		Notation and Editing of Early Music	Not delivered this year	20
MUSI11075		Perspectives in Musicology	Not delivered this year	20
MUSI11048	SV1	Physics-based Modelling of Musical Instruments	Semester 2	20
MUSI11077	SS1	Portfolio of Compositions (Level 11)	Full Year	40
MUSI11034	SV1	Postgraduate Musical Applications of Fourier Theory and Digital Signal Processing	Semester 1	20
MUSI11079	SS1	Sound Design Thinking	Semester 1	20
MUSI11065	SV1	Soundtracks for Screen	Semester 2	20
MUSI11072		Studies in Popular Music	Not delivered this year	20
MUSI11070		Venice, 1690-1740: Critical Approaches to Music and Culture	Not delivered this year	20
ARTX11051	SS1	ECA MSc by Research Dissertation	Full Year	180