Keele University Prospectus Undergraduate | 2017 | Page 91

Music
Key Information
Why study this course?

Music and Music Technology at Keele were recently rated in the
top 10 in the UK for overall student satisfaction in the National
Student Survey 2014.
Music at Keele offers you exciting pathways through the creation,
performance and study of music across a diversity of styles, periods
and traditions. Alongside opportunities to perform and compose your
own music, you can explore music’s history, aesthetics, theory, analysis,
and social impact. You can combine areas to create an individual degree
that reflects your own musical interests and passions, and you’ll be able
to study components of Keele’s Music Technology programme, where
students work on sound design, music production, sonic arts, software
development and audio-visuals. Music at Keele is a hub of world-class
researchers, composers, performers and musicologists, including
specialists in film and TV music, contemporary music, classical music,
world music and pop. The musical life on campus is extraordinarily rich.
As a Keele music student you’ll have access 24/7 to our purpose-built
practice rooms and studios, and also to an extensive music library.
You’ll have opportunities to play with orchestras, choirs, ensembles
and bands, and to attend amazing concerts, gigs and workshops by
world-leading musicians.

Indicative modules

First year
• Twentieth-Century Musics
• World Musics
• Active Listening
• Introduction to Composition
• Popular Music
Second year
• Stravinsky, Russian Traditions
and Legacy
• Music in German Culture
• Unheard Melodies? Music
in the Narrative Film
• Indian Music
• Music in the Community
Third year
• Dissertation
• Recital
• Composition
• Contextual Studies
• Approaches to Music Analysis
• Music and Literature in the
Long Nineteenth Century

What will this mean
for my future?

Your Music degree from Keele
will prepare you for a wide
range of rewarding career paths.
Many music graduates apply
their transferable creative and
intellectual skills to careers
including media production,
finance and banking, the law,
publishing, broadcasting,
marketing and consultancy.
Keele Music graduates often
continue their studies at PGCE,
master’s and PhD level. You could
also go on to work as a performer,
composer, teacher (at all levels
of education), music therapist,
community musician, private
tutor or sound technician, or in
arts administration, orchestras,
bands, a recording company,
publishing, game design, film,
radio and television.

For more course information please visit

keele.ac.uk/music

Course type

Single honours, dual
honours, minor
For information on dual
honours combinations
please visit www.keele.
ac.uk/ugcourses or page 158

Course duration

Three years or four years
with an International Year
(single honours)

Indicative entry
requirements
BCC

For further information on
entry requirements please
visit www.keele.ac.uk/
entryrequirements

Study abroad
Yes

Daniel Elphick
Music, graduated 2011

I’m currently finishing a PhD
in Musicology at the University
of Manchester. My Keele degree
proved to be the foundation of my
passion for Musicology. Many of
the department staff encouraged
me in my application for a PhD
course, and I s till have regular
contact with them. There are so
many different musical activities
at Keele. Getting involved in the
music-making community on
campus was the best thing about
my undergraduate degree.
Smart minds choose Keele

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