BA (Hons) Music and Sound Design for Film, Television and Interactive Media with Integrated Foundation Year Bachelor's degree at Royal Holloway, University of London

This module will explore critical approaches to digital culture and its social and artistic impact. The module will explore different digital media (reconstruction, game, animation) and visual forms and styles from diverse cultures and geographies to develop skills in the close analysis of a wide range of digital media. The examples chosen will highlight different uses of digital media in games, education, and heritage, as well as some of the ethical issues raised by 'gamification' and digital c

This core Foundation module offers an inter-disciplinary introduction to a range of concepts of global significance highly relevant for students progressing onto humanities, arts and social science subjects. The lectures, seminars and readings will approach each concept from a variety of humanities, arts and social science perspectives and will involve students exploring different epistemological approaches, including but also beyond, those of their own degree subject.

This module explores the ways in which experiences, identities and social issues are represented in British film. It considers the ways that filmmakers engage with contemporary society and the extent to which films respond to, or act as a catalyst for, social change. Each week we will explore a different topic through the lens of a specific film. We will contextualise the representation offered and consider how it fits within the longer tradition of filmmaking on that subject. Since the very ear

In this module, students closely examine, compare and contextualise a range of texts that deal with the theme of learning. The core texts: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's novel Purple Hibiscus (2003); Willy Russell's play Educating Rita (1980); and Alan Parker's film, Fame (1980), will be accompanied by a range of extracts from a broad variety of text types, from poetry to philosophy to legal documents. Each week, we will consider a key issue raised by the core text under discussion alongside extract

This course aims: 1. to develop basic music-analytical literacy, 2. to introduce basic concepts concerning counterpoint, harmony, melody and form that underpin the analysis of music, 3. to put these concepts into practice in the analysis of pieces from a variety of repertories. The course addresses the contrapuntal, melodic, harmonic and formal elements of tonal music. Weekly lectures, in which students are introduced to analytical concepts and then practise deploying them, through listening, sc

The aim of this course is to develop students' awareness of music theory through practical exercises and musical analysis. Through practical exercises that focus on musical literacy as well as aural awareness, students develop the ability to identify and analyse the musical parameters of metre, rhythm, pitch, harmony, counterpoint and form. In-class exercises may focus on listening, whereas exercises for self-study or small-group work may include written exercises. Tasks set for private study be

This module will provide the opportunity to develop skills in working with music technology, write music to a brief and develop skills in independent creative work. The topics taught will include a selection from: introduction to media, film and game music composition; introduction to non-linear compositional techniques; the basics of digital audio; composing to a brief; interpreting images; and audio engines for games.

This module will: develop your knowledge of a range of fundamental techniques of musical composition with particular focus on structure, harmonic control and the manipulation of rhythmic and melodic material provide an opportunity to practise the art of musical composition and to develop skills in creative work. Developing on areas covered in first-year Composition modules, this module will provide a framework in which you will be introduced to a number of techniques from diverse schools of comp

This module explores ways that electronic media and technology have brought about change in and opened up new possibilities for musical production, consumption, sounds, practices, experience, contexts and meanings. It considers the role of electronic media and technology in preserving and documenting musical culture as well as in changing it, and it examines how developments in electronic media and technology have affected and continue to affect dynamics of power in musical production and consum

This module will explore the practices of the 20th Century Modernist Avant Garde within a digital environment. Whilst there may be some pre-digital analogue elements delivered within the module, the curriculum will focus predominantly on the digital creative outcomes produced whilst working within Logic Pro X. The module will examine the role of sound within abstract film, radio broadcast and gallery installation. Having completed this part of the module, you will have gained both a practical an

With a focus on commercial music, this module will cover the essential techniques necessary to compose music using a computer. This will include strengthening your technical knowledge as well as harmonic, melodic and rhythmic strategies for making compelling music. We will look at methods of programming and designing sounds, combining, for example, the simulation of acoustic ensembles and digital instruments in ways that will prepare you for professional practice. We will look at soundtrack comp

The module will carry on with all the technological and compositional techniques and methods introduced in MU2335 Composing with Technology 1 but take a more in-depth look at them and delve much deeper into the software. We will study compositional and technological techniques from the experimental and electronica fields and from the music to moving-image repertoire, including film, TV, adverts and games etc, and build up knowledge of up-to-date practices and trends to inform work with a view to

This module will examine, through the employment of practical methodologies, the work of significant avant-garde sound/noise practitioners throughout the 20th century analogue and digital eras. It will examine the relationship between significant artworks and the technology of the era. For example, in the acoustic era of music capture, before the electrification of th