Our degree in folk and traditional music was the first of its kind. The program focuses on traditional music and song. National and international artists teach as resident and guest lecturers on this degree.
Performance and group playing are at the heart of this course, but you will also study the social and cultural context of traditional and folk music, and how music helps to build identity and culture.
As you progress through the degree, you’ll have increasing freedom to choose modules to tailor your learning, including from our Contemporary, Popular and Classical Music degrees.
Our teaching is research-based. Course content may change from time to time in response to developments in the discipline, requirements of external bodies and partners, and student feedback.
Modules
- Educational practice in musicology
- Performance research
- Folklore ensemble
- Traditions of the islands
- Production studio
- Introduction to ethnomusicology
- Understanding the history of music
- Introduction to popular music
- Creative projects
- Fundamentals and applications of music theory
- Applications and structures of music theory
- Fundamentals and structures of music theory
- Themes in musical modernism
- Creating for spaces and places
- Performing early opera
- DJing skills and touring blues
- Modern musical materials
- The practice of music analysis
- Indian music in practice
- Free music practice: experimental pop and interdisciplinary performance
- Applied composition and songwriting in folk, modal and acoustic music
- Case studies of ancient music
- Orchestration
- Jazz today: issues for tomorrow
- Popular music and the media
- Additional performance studies (folk and traditional music)
- Music and Empire
- Professional practice for music
- Community music: theory and practice