Popular Music Performance BMus
University of West London
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Bachelor of Music - BMus

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SEP-25

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Bachelor of Music - BMus

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This course is a brand-new offering within the London College of Music’s portfolio, and focusses on developing the creative, entrepreneurial, musicianship, and technical skills needed to cultivate a career in the eclectic and diverse field of popular music performance. During the course, you will: - Receive bespoke 1:1 tuition with our team of internationally acclaimed professional performers - Develop your musicianship and interpretation skills - Engage with current theories in historical and ...Read more

This course is a brand-new offering within the London College of Music’s portfolio, and focusses on developing the creative, entrepreneurial, musicianship, and technical skills needed to cultivate a career in the eclectic and diverse field of popular music performance. During the course, you will: - Receive bespoke 1:1 tuition with our team of internationally acclaimed professional performers - Develop your musicianship and interpretation skills - Engage with current theories in historical and social popular musicology and performance practice - Deepen your understanding of today’s popular music industry - Nurture the entrepreneurial skills required for the contemporary musician. Throughout the course, there are opportunities to collaborate and work with students from across LCM’s vast creative community, enhancing your learning experience and developing your network of like-minded industry professionals. Complementing LCM’s existing popular music performance-based degree courses, the BMus (Hons) Popular Music Performance programme provides future popular music professionals with a thorough, industry-facing educational experience. This degree offers you the opportunity to cultivate performance-focussed skills which are vital to you as a contemporary musician. This includes a secure technical foundation, a high level of performing ability, a strong creative drive, an advanced knowledge of musical concepts – including secure music literacy and critical listening skills – as well as an exploration of the placement of popular music as a broader sociological construct. This diverse provision will ensure that you are equipped with a strong, creative, and entrepreneurial drive, and an ability to employ a wide range of employable skillsets. The course’s philosophy takes a developmental and strategic approach focussing on investigation, evaluation, and creation. This begins with a range of subjects designed to develop knowledge of performance, music scholarship, and musical arrangement before shifting to a more critical performance training; engaging with practice research methods as you learn to manage more advanced collaborative performance scenarios. In your final year, you will direct self-guided performance projects that demonstrate your acquisition of industry-standard skills and conceptual considerations. As a graduate from this course, you will be a pioneer and innovator; recognising contemporary industry practices to build, drive, and maintain a career as a versatile and employable musician.

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BBC - ABB Grades / Points required

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112 - 128 Grades / Points required

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Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016):

DMM - DDM Grades / Points required

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Pass Access to HE Diploma (Minimum of 45 credits at level 3)

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University of West London , Ealing

The University of West London (UWL) is situated in the historic London borough of Ealing, a leafy enclave to the west of the city....

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St Mary's Road Ealing London Ealing W5 5RF United Kingdom
Nearest tube station: South Ealing  0.2 miles away Nearest train station: West Ealing  0.6 miles away
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