Classes & activities
Core Modules
Undergraduate students take weekly academic classes in addition to their principal study. The classes are designed to complement and add to every student’s creative development as performers.
Below are the module titles for 2020-2021. For detailed information about Academic Studies, download the BMus course handbook.
BMus Core Modules, Years 1 and 2
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Analytical Skills 1
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Analytical Skills 2
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Performing In Context 1
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Performing In Context 2
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Aural Skills 1
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Aural Skills 2
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Score Reading
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Artist Development
BMus Elective Modules; Year 3 and 4
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Analysis of Post-Tonal Music
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Approaching the Great Luthiers
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Aural Skills, Further
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Baroque Performance on Historical Instruments
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Baroque Performance on Historical Instruments, Advanced
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Compositional Techniques of the Germanic Traditions c.1780-c.1880
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Conducting, Advanced
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Conducting, Intermediate
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Contemporary Music Workshop
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Crossing Cultural Frontiers
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Free Composition for Performers
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Free Composition for Performers, Advanced
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Fugue
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Listening to Mozart, Thinking about Mozart, Playing Mozart
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Maestro: a History of Conducting through Film, Recordings and Marked Scores
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Messiaen in Context
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Methods in the Analysis of Tonal Music, Advanced
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Mozart’s Operas
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Musical Aesthetics and Criticism
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Open Academy
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Open Academy. Advanced
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Performing Baroque Music (with a focus on Handel)
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Performing Experimental Music
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Repertoire Studies
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Research Project
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Silent Film Improvisation
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Song Accompaniment
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Studio Performance
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Worldwide Repertoires
Department Classes
And Activities
Lessons and Repertoire Coaching
Vocal Technique Class
Language Classes and Phonetics
Opera Coaching, Scenes and Stagecraft
Acting and Movement Classes
English Song
French Song
Lieder
Craft of Italian
Oratorio
Performance Platform
Opera Audition Repertoire Class (postgrad only)
Mozart and Handel Arias (postgrad only)
Discovery events
Discovery Events are the perfect way to find out more about the Academy and whether it’s the right place for you.
