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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 (25 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
MUSI08067 Composition 1 Not delivered this year 20
MUSI08030 Composition 2 Not delivered this year 20
MUSI08057 SV1 Creative Music Technology Semester 1 20
MUSI08077 SV1 Creative Musicianship Full Year 20
MUSI08064 Festivals Not delivered this year 20
MUSI08059 Maths for Music Technology II: Mathematical Applications in Acoustics and Music Technology [MFM II] Not delivered this year 20
MUSI08069 SV1 Music 1A: Psychology of Music Semester 2 20
MUSI08060 Music 2A: Music and Ideas from the Middle Ages to Viennese Classicism Not delivered this year 20
MUSI08061 Music 2B: Music and Ideas from Romanticism to the Late Twentieth Century Not delivered this year 20
MUSI08076 SV1 Music Analysis Semester 1 20
MUSI08070 Music Analysis 2 Not delivered this year 20
MUSI08073 SS1 Performance 1 Full Year 20
MUSI08074 SS1 Performance 2 Full Year 20
MUSI08048 Performance and Keyboard 1 Not delivered this year 20
MUSI08049 Performance and Keyboard 2 Not delivered this year 20
MUSI08054 SV1 Sound Recording Semester 2 20
MUSI08029 Style Studies 2 Not delivered this year 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 (51 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
MUSI10087 Algorithmic Composition Not delivered this year 20
MUSI10020 Applied Keyboard Skills Not delivered this year 20
MUSI10105 SS1 Approaches to Creative Keyboard Practice Full Year 20
MUSI10114 SV1 Audio Crafting (UG) Semester 1 20
MUSI10108 SV1 Audio Programming Semester 2 20
MUSI10094 Beethoven: Man, Music, Myth Not delivered this year 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 SV1 Film Music post-1950 Semester 1 20
MUSI10075 SV1 Film Music to 1950 Semester 1 20
MUSI10002 SV1 Harmony 3 Full 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 Medieval Afterlives: Music and Cultural Imagination Not delivered this year 20
MUSI10089 SV1 Music Analysis 3 Semester 2 20
MUSI10065 Music Technology Project Not delivered this year 40
MUSI10067 Music and Human Communication Not delivered this year 20
MUSI10081 Music and State Socialism in the Twentieth Century Not delivered this year 20
MUSI10096 Music and Technoscience: Cultural and Historical Perspectives Not delivered this year 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 SV1 Music, Racism and Western Ideology Semester 1 20
MUSI10055 SV1 Musical Applications of Fourier Theory and Digital Signal Processing Semester 1 20
MUSI10097 SV1 Notation and Editing of Early Music Semester 2 20
MUSI10004 Orchestration 3 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
MUSI10098 Sonic Structures Not delivered this year 20
MUSI10117 Sounding Documentary: voices, texts, contexts Not delivered this year 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
MUSI10050 Special History in Music: Wagner - Music, Philosophy and 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 The Musicology of War Not delivered this year 20
MUSI10107 Three Minute Records: Case Studies in Popular Music Not delivered this year 20
MUSI10103 Venice: Music and Culture, 1690-1740 Not delivered this year 20

SCQF Level 11 (42 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
MUSI11066 SV1 Audio Programming Semester 2 20
MUSI11071 SV1 Composing for Screen Semester 2 20
MUSI11064 Compositional Practice Not delivered this year 20
MUSI11067 SV1 Creative Coding for Sound Semester 1 20
ARCH11006 SV1 Digital Media Studio Project Semester 2 20
ARCH11257 Digital Media Studio Project (Online Distance Learning) Not delivered this year 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 SV1 MMus Individual Research Project Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond 20
MUSI11014 SV1 MMus Individual Research Project Full Year 20
MUSI11003 MMus Portfolio of Compositions Not delivered this year 60
MUSI11015 SV1 MMus Research Methods A Semester 1 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 Medieval Afterlives: Critical Approaches to Music and Medievalism Not delivered this year 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 SV1 Music, Philosophy and Politics Semester 2 20
MUSI11019 Non Real-Time Systems Not delivered this year 20
MUSI11073 SV1 Notation and Editing of Early Music Semester 2 20
MUSI11075 SV1 Perspectives in Musicology Semester 1 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
MUSI11055 Practice of Composition for Screen Not delivered this year 20
MUSI11058 Principles of Composition for Screen Not delivered this year 20
ARCH11009 Sonic Structures Not delivered this year 20
ARCH11012 Sound Design: Final Project Not delivered this year 60
MUSI11065 SV1 Soundtracks for Screen Semester 2 20
MUSI11049 Special Project: Musical Acoustics and Audio Signal Processing Not delivered this year 20
MUSI11072 SV1 Studies in Popular Music Semester 2 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
Key
Available to all students - SV
Not available to visiting students - SS
Part-year visiting students only - VV
 
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