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Bachelor of MusicUWS 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
Location
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
| 101519.1 | Musics, Histories and Flights of the Imagination |
| 101520.1 | Basic Composition, Craft and Theory |
| 101525.1 | Introduction to Music Performance |
| 101526.1 | Introduction to Sound Technologies |
Spring session
| 101534.1 | Music: Modernism, Postmodernism and Beyond |
| 101524.1 | Free and Notated Music Performance |
| 101538.1 | Sound Synthesis and the Sound Environment |
Year 2
Autumn session
| 101530.1 | Music Composition: Concepts and Creativity |
One sub-major unit
And one elective unit
Spring session
| 101528.2 | Modes and Codes in Music Production |
One sub-major unit
And one elective unit
Year 3
Autumn session
One sub-major unit
And one elective unit
Spring session
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.
Note: The sub-majors listed below are only available for students NOT enrolled in the Bachelor of Music