Music With a Year of Study Abroad | Bachelor's degree | Art & Design | On Campus | 4 years | Cardiff University | United Kingdom

This flexible and challenging program allows you to specialise and develop your musical interests while developing a solid, broad-based education in aesthetics, analysis, composition, ethnomusicology, music history and performance. As well as the key foundations of an education in music, this program offers you a flexible and diverse range of modules. You may also be able to study topics in other Schools, subject to availability. If you would prefer to focus solely on music, consider our BMus course (which includes composition and performance as third-year major projects) as an alternative. You will spend the third year of this four-year course studying abroad, taking modules in music and other subjects where available. At your host university, you will learn different perspectives and approaches to studying music. You will complete your studies in Cardiff in the fourth year. Distinctive features You will receive fully-funded instrumental tuition on your principal study instrument if you are taking a Practical Musicianship module. The Business of Music modules offer insight into the working world, as well as the opportunity to undertake a short work placement. The School hosts regular composition workshops; performance masterclasses; a regular concert series; the John Bird lectures presented by visiting academics; and a series of careers in music talks which provide opportunities for contact with active music professionals. Opportunity to broaden your study and select modules from other subjects. The opportunity to undertake major projects in musicology, analysis, and ethnomusicology in year four and minor projects in composition and performance. You will spend your third year studying abroad, returning to Cardiff in your fourth year to complete your studies. The modules shown are an example of the typical curriculum and will be reviewed prior to the 2020/21 academic year. The final modules will be published by September.