BA (Hons) Music (Songwriting and Production) Bachelor's degree at LIPA

This module is a broad introduction to desktop recording concepts with the aim of providing a solid base for further creative practice at LIPA. Key skills are introduced to develop existing and new abilities.

This module is a practical and theoretical introduction to songwriting with a primary focus on the generation, development and presentation of original songs. It provides you with an understanding of fundamental concepts in songwriting that provides a foundation for further studies and creative practice.

This module provides you with a range of skills to support your development as a musician. These sessions are made up of aural skills seminars to develop your recognition of chords, scales, intervals, melodies and rhythmic patterns. Rhythmic awareness seminars to develop your overall awareness and literacy of rhythm with an introduction to Latin-American and West African percussion. Improvisation workshops where you apply aural and rhythmic awareness skills as you work within Jazz and Popular Mu

Through this module, you bring together elements of what you have learned this year in practical projects. You develop and plan a range of appropriate professional and experimental projects based on your own music-related objectives. These could include songwriting, production, observed band rehearsals and performances. You also learn about how the music industry operates, including copyright and intellectual property, and music contracts and agreements. Your experiences on this module enable yo

In this module, you explore how current popular music is created, mediated and consumed, within the music industry and broader socio-cultural contexts. Focusing on specific examples of current popular music, you become familiar with the relationships between music and its contexts, and the ways in which these relationships are understood, explained and debated. You also develop your research and writing skills and knowledge of academic conventions such as referencing.

This module builds upon your first year study to develop your understanding of the role of a Producer within the wider music industry. Frameworks and strategies for evaluation and planning are supported with further investigation of practical music production skills.

This module builds upon your first year of study to expand your knowledge and practice in the creative application of music and lyric writing techniques. It enables you to further develop your understanding of industry standard creative and working practices as you develop an increasingly critical approach to your own songwriting practice.

In this module you develop a range of music skills designed to enhance and support you in your work, study and development. Varied weekly classes cover applied aural skills, transcribing recorded songs, arranging techniques, music technology and studio induction, music notation software, and choir.

Through this module, you have further opportunities to apply your musical skills to practical projects. These could include collaborations with other subject areas here, playing in a pit band, session playing or developing your own individual project. You identify and plan different musical projects which link to your career ambitions, with your work allowing you to demonstrate your progression as an artist. Through all of this activity, you refine skills which will support you as you embark on

In this module, you analyse the visual aspects of musicians' promotional materials and practices, focusing on examples of image, fashion and style, performance and music video. You become familiar with a range of analytical approaches, and become able to use lenses such as genre, identity and authenticity to analyse and contextualise examples of popular music visuals. You develop your academic skills, becoming more familiar with independent research and academic writing conventions.

Through this module, you explore how you will pursue your career ambitions as a professional musician. You review realistic employment and self-employment opportunities and create a professional portfolio which reflects these, while considering industrial factors, marketing, legal and budgetary considerations. To support your career prospects, you develop appropriate promotional materials. There is additional focus on financial planning and management, along with contracts and copyright and how

In this module, you build on the theoretical knowledge and understanding, and research/writing skills, developed in Popular Music Contexts 1 and 2, to undertake research into an aspect of current popular music that is personally and professionally relevant and useful to you. You carry out independent research using a wide range of sources to write a substantial essay, supported through a series of research and writing skills lectures, and regular individual tutorials.

This module enables you to create music while encountering the role of record producer as you develop professional-level conceptual and practical production skills. You collaborate with performers, engineers, arrangers and programmers as you develop a portfolio throughout the year. It is an opportunity for experimentation, creative problem solving and the setting and attaining of relevant goals.

This module builds upon and applies the songwriting techniques you studied during your first and second year. Over the course of the year, you are required to plan, revise and execute to a professional standard a songwriting-oriented project or projects. Work is supervised by a songwriting tutor and supplemented by visiting A&R workshops and open mic sessions which provides opportunities for professionally focused feedback.