Music

What you will study

The Bachelor of Music is a four year, full time degree.

As a Music student at UNSW you will complete the following:

• core courses in music performance, musicianship and musicology
• your choice of specialist music stream from the options below
• extensive training in ensemble skills and professional practices
• 'free elective' courses that give you the flexibility to combine your music studies with complementary areas

Music streams

Music Creative Practice:

Intensive training in performance or composition in a self-selected musical style or tradition, including classical, jazz and world music.

Music Inquiry:

Intensive training in historical musicology, ethnomusicology or the psychology of music. Music Inquiry enables students to develop excellence in theoretical and critical subjects, music from various styles, genres and cultures, and in a comprehensive range of ensemble practices.

Sonic Arts:

Focuses on the use of sound as a means for a broad-range of creative investigations and applications. Students gain foundational skills and knowledge in sound recording and processing, post production techniques, digital sound manipulation, acoustics, and psychoacoustics in preparation for advanced applications of sound in various media and genres, such as, film and video production, sound installations, sound art, and electronic-based composition.

Music Pedagogy:

Offers extensive pre-professional training in musicianship, musicology, ensemble performance, pedagogical methods, and educational and motivational psychology specifically for studio music teaching. This stream requires the study of leading pedagogical practices through lectures, seminars, workshops, observation and practice.

Assignments and self-directed projects will provide opportunities for developing teacher modelling skills and best practices for the studio-teaching environment.

Graduates in all four major streams may also continue with study in music education.