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Music

SCQF Level 07 (1 courses)

Code Availability Course Name Period Credits
MUSI07001 SS1 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 (47 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 1 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 2 20
MUSI10120 Creative Musicianship and Teaching Practice Not delivered this year 20
MUSI10092 Creative Practice Music Project Not delivered this year 40
MUSI10016 Dissertation in Music Not delivered this year 40
MUSI10072 Film Music post-1950 Not delivered this year 20
MUSI10002 Harmony 3 Not delivered this year 20
MUSI10090 Improvisation as Social Process Not delivered this year 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
MUSI10121 SS1 Music Research Project Full Year 40
MUSI10065 Music Technology Project Not delivered this year 40
MUSI10067 SV1 Music and Human Communication Semester 1 20
MUSI10081 Music and State Socialism in the Twentieth Century 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 Notation and Editing of Early Music Not delivered this year 20
MUSI10086 SS1 Performance 3 Full Year 20
MUSI10076 Physics-based Modelling of Musical Instruments Not delivered this year 20
MUSI10115 SS1 Portfolio of Compositions Full Year 40
MUSI10021 SS1 Recital Full Year 40
MUSI10066 Research Methods in Music Not delivered this year 20
MUSI10099 SV1 Screen Music History: texts and contexts Semester 1 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
MUSI10073 The Kodaly Approach to Music Education Not delivered this year 20
MUSI10110 SV1 The Musical Brain: Reading and Understanding Experimental Research Semester 2 20
MUSI10104 The Musicology of War Not delivered this year 20
MUSI10107 SV1 Three Minute Records: Case Studies in Popular Music Semester 2 20
MUSI10103 SV1 Venice: Music and Culture, 1690-1740 Semester 2 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 1 20
MUSI11071 SV1 Composing for Screen Semester 2 20
MUSI11067 SV1 Creative Coding for Sound Semester 2 20
ARCH11006 Digital Media Studio Project 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 MMus Individual Research Project Not delivered this year 20
MUSI11015 SS1 MMus Research Methods A Semester 2 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 SV1 Music and Human Communication (PG) Semester 1 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 SS1 Perspectives in Musicology Semester 1 20
MUSI11048 Physics-based Modelling of Musical Instruments Not delivered this year 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 SV1 Studies in Popular Music Semester 2 20
MUSI11070 SV1 Venice, 1690-1740: Critical Approaches to Music and Culture Semester 2 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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