Modules

Year 0 (Foundation Year) You'll study four core music modules going across music performance, music theory, composition (including music technology) and basic musicology. You'll also study two broad-based modules embedded in our music studios, the library and London cultural life in general. Practical and subject-related skills are developed through class-based tasks, either individually or in groups, (including analytic, listening-based, or discursive exercises), or by setting up and reviewing follow-up tasks undertaken outside of class through workshops where you are given the opportunity to offer peer feedback. You will also have an assigned one-to-one instrumental or vocal tutor, and a personal tutor who will guide your study. This mix of practical and academic support is designed to help you make the leap into higher education with confidence. You will study the following compulsory modules. Introduction to Musicology Foundation for Composition Foundation for Performance Foundation for Music Studies Building Your Research World Reading and Writing Your World Option modules will become available to you should you proceed onto either the BMus Music or BMus Popular Music on successful completion of your foundation year. Year 1 (credit level 4) All BMus Music students take the following modules: Discovering Music Performance: Techniques and Repertoire Composition Materials, Signs and Symbols Critical Approaches to Contemporary Music Year 2 (credit level 5) In your second year, you'll take at least one and up to three of the following compulsory modules: Sounding the 19th Century Aesthetics, Meaning and Culture Music and Identity You'll then use your remaining credits (up to 105 credits or 7 modules, depending on your compulsory modules choices) to select from the below list of optional modules: Performance: Styles and Contexts Techniques of Contemporary Composition Composition: Creative Strategies Electroacoustic Composition Making Experimental Sound Techniques in Jazz and Popular Music Arranging and Composing for the Jazz Ensemble Contemporary Jazz Performance the UK Scene Media Composition Music/Modernities Soviet Music and Politics Music Practice and the Black Atlantic: Britain’s Celebrity Culture Music in Film What is Jazz? Sound as Art Musics of East Asia: Politics, Industry, Creativity Music of Africa and Asia Pitching Creative Businesses: Models, Markets and Meaning Goldsmiths’ Social Change Module The Goldsmiths Elective Year 3 (credit level 6) In your final year, you'll take at least one, and up to two of the following compulsory modules: Performance: Creative Practice Composition portfolio Research Project You'll then use your remaining credits (up to 90 credits or 6 modules, depending on your compulsory modules selection) to choose from the following optional modules: Contemporary Jazz Performance the UK Scene Acoustic Ecology and Field Recording Performing South-East Asian Music Improvisation Creative Orchestration and Arrangement Introduction to Audiovisual Composition Music/Modernities Soviet Music and Politics Music Practice and the Black Atlantic: Britain’s Celebrity Culture Music and Screen Media Advanced Popular Music Studies Fringe and Underground Musics Music in Educational, Community and Therapeutic Contexts Music Workshop Skills Music Teaching Skills DIY Practice and Alternative Sites for Music Live Electronics Work placement You as Your Future: Developing Creative Careers Psychological Approaches to Music Please note that due to staff research commitments not all of these modules may be available every year.