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Bachelor of Music

UWS Course Code: 1659.1

Course Status: CURRENT
This version of the course is available to new and continuing students.


Students should follow the course structure for the course version relevant to the year they commenced. This version applies to students whose commencement year for this course is 2009 or later.

The Bachelor of Music develops innovative, articulate musicians who contribute to the music community and the culture it serves. It offers high-level training in music, music performance, composition, sound technologies, music theory, musicology, arranging music and music analysis. It does this in well-equipped studios, and in a lecture/workshop/tutorial environment. Skills in music performance, composition and sound technologies are augmented by intellectual, theoretical and contextual studies. An active staff of music-academics supports students to develop their individual goals.

Study Mode
Three years full-time or six years part-time.

Head of Program

NameEmail
Dr Diana Blomd.blom@uws.edu.au

Location

CampusAttendanceModeCourse Advisor
Penrith CampusFull TimeInternalIan Stevenson
Penrith CampusPart TimeInternalIan Stevenson

Admission

You will be selected on an interview/audition in which personal aptitude, professional experience and educational qualifications are taken into consideration. After you have applied to UAC you are required to book yourself in for an interview/audition and download a questionnaire at this University’s online audition booking system available at:

UWS Online audition booking system

If you have difficulty in accessing the web, call 1300 897 669. Please bring the completed questionnaire with you to the audition. At your audition you will be asked to perform from two contrasting pieces of music.

Course Structure

Qualification for this award requires the successful completion of 240 credit points.

Full - time

Year 1

Autumn session

101519.1Musics, Histories and Flights of the Imagination
101520.1Basic Composition, Craft and Theory
101525.1Introduction to Music Performance
101526.1Introduction to Sound Technologies

Spring session

101534.1Music: Modernism, Postmodernism and Beyond
101522.1Composition, Craft and Theory
101524.1Free and Notated Music Performance
101538.1Sound Synthesis and the Sound Environment

Year 2

Autumn session

101523.1Cultural Paradigms and Music
101530.1Music Composition: Concepts and Creativity

One sub-major unit

And one elective unit

Spring session

101528.2Modes and Codes in Music Production
101120.2Arranging Musics

One sub-major unit

And one elective unit

Year 3

Autumn session

101532.1Music in Theory and Practice
101152.1Music and Analysis

One sub-major unit

And one elective unit

Spring session

101529.2Music and Meaning
101472.1Music Project

One sub-major unit

And one sub-major or elective unit

Sub-majors

Note: The sub-majors listed below are only available for students enrolled in the Bachelor of Music

All students must complete one of the following sub-majors. One of the other sub-majors may also be completed using elective places.

SM1015.1Composition
SM1016.1Sound Technologies
SM1017.1Music Performance

Note: The sub-majors listed below are only available for students NOT enrolled in the Bachelor of Music

SM1039.1Sound Technology Studies
SM1047.1Music Performance Studies


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