BA (Hons) Music (Contemporary Pop Voice & Performance) Bachelor's degree at LIPA

This module enables you to develop specific vocal skills and techniques. One-to-one weekly vocal lessons run for twenty-four weeks and are enhanced by weekly workshops in vocal repertory for singers.

This module provides vocal students with movement and dance skills to enhance their performance. Weekly commercial dance classes and vocal a cappella group rehearsals enhance singers' performance skills.

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 helps you to further develop specific vocal skills and techniques as well as general performance related skills. One-to-one weekly vocal lessons run for twenty-four weeks and are supported by vocal repertory workshops for vocalists.

This module provides vocal students with further movement and dance skills to enhance their performance. These weekly commercial dance classes and vocal group rehearsals provide you with an outlet for combined vocal and dance performances.

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.

This module focuses on the further development of the individual performer on their vocal specialism. It builds upon and applies the skills and technique from your first and second year. Over the course of the year, you are required to plan, execute and evaluate performance-led projects, leading to a final performance. One-to-one hour long vocal lessons continue on a weekly basis. Vocal repertory workshops support student projects.

This module builds upon and applies the skills and technique from your first and second year. Over the course of the year, you are required to plan, execute and evaluate performance led projects, leading to performances of devised pieces.

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 Studies 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.