Course Modules

This third-year module is intended to give you an insight to the role of a ‘Swing’ within a Musical Theatre performance context. It will encourage you to develop an exploration of performance styles in practical work and to encourage a […]

This module provides you with an opportunity to select an area or areas of study of your choice in singing, instrumental study, dance (including choreography), acting, comedy or magic and to develop this over an extended period into a self-devised

This module brings together the practical and theoretical skills a composer needs for completing and presenting compositions. It gives you a forum to demonstrate the musical and lyric writing skills and techniques developed during the course and leads to projects

This module provides you with the opportunity to select an area of study in performance and to develop this over an extended period. Performers are supported in their conception and progression and are required to present a longer and more

You will have an opportunity to select an area of study of your choice over an extended period, to research and present their findings in written form.

This module develops competency in business planning with the imaginative use of physical and creative resources. You will examine examples of business projects in commercial and publicly funded music, different marketing models, as well as consider the evolving management cultures

This module explores the development of opera from its innovation in the early 1600s through into the 20th century. You will consider the social and political context in which they were conceived, as well as examine relationships between communication, structural

This module will focus on the development of professional standards in articulating an identified project, presenting and researching information and on the need to work to rigorous deadlines and wordage limits in producing written work. The importance of funding criteria

This module develops your skills in the physical projection of musical expression which will prove invaluable in supporting your performance practice. The ideas and concepts and the inherited behavioural codes which lie behind our instinctive interpretation of movement and gesture

This module sets out to enrich your performance practice with a lively sense of an appropriate performance context for opera and operetta, and develops your scholarly interest in the social context that can help inform this.