BMus (Hons) Music Performance with Foundation Year Bachelor's degree at West London

This module allows you to further develop a range of transferable skills that you will demonstrate in your own subject-specific studies and apply to a final piece of written work at the end of the module. The module is designed for you to further develop your skills in a range of academic, investigative and research techniques including how to evaluate and select evidence appropriate to your discipline from a range of learning resources. The module also aims to develop your critical thinking and

The Personalised Learning module is intended to equip you with the study skills needed to successfully progress onto level 4, the first year of undergraduate study. Tutor group sessions are an integral part of the module, where you will consolidate your learning and frame it in the context of your subject area. The module will focus on various aspects of study skills, such as those skills related to reading and writing, learning approaches, problem-solving techniques, critical thinking, research

This module provides a comprehensive plan of study in order to develop skills as a performing musician in both solo and ensemble environments. You will look at the demands of being a professional musician in terms of expected standards and values, whilst investigating your own creative avenues within the ensemble work, where you will be encouraged to think expansively and with ambition. Individual instrumental classes develop technical and artistic playing across a range of music styles, and the

This module presents the opportunity to transform your existing theoretical knowledge into essential practical skills for your musical career. Through innovative strategies like Froseth Technique and relative-pitch ear training, alongside more traditional approaches, you will acquire invaluable skills that hinge on your musical development both as a performer and lifelong student of music.

Understanding Creative Industries is designed to give you an appreciation and knowledge of the development of the fundamental structures of the global creative industry structures. In doing this, you will obtain a comprehensive grounding in the key skills and knowledge appropriate to building, developing and maintaining a career in your chosen area of the industry. You will also receive a grounding in key figures within the industry and support organisations available to you to help in developin

In this module, you will further develop your solo and ensemble musicianship skills in preparation for performing on stage. You will embark on a series of practical projects which embrace a variety of styles and media. There will be performance opportunities in: orchestra jazz band choir concert series musical theatre.

You will be presented with an overview of concepts and selected works in music history from the birth of opera (around 1600) to post-modernism. You will consider history, aesthetics, musical language and the performance of music through readings and musical works.

Community music comes in many forms; from singing in a choir to exploring new technology and song writing, and has many benefits. You will be introduced to the creation and facilitation of music-based activities for individuals and groups in a wide range of community settings. The module aims to give you a good foundation for becoming a music teacher, music therapist, workshop facilitator or community musician.

This module is designed to develop your skills as an advanced solo and ensemble music practitioner. You will develop your problem-solving skills by focusing on solo and ensemble musicianship on your first study instrument or voice.

As a portfolio musician, you will be expected to arrange material for a variety of instrumental and vocal combinations. This could be anything from a conventional mixed orchestra, to an ad hoc group, like a school choir or band. Or it could be a commission with strict time constraints such as a TV or radio advertisement, or a symphonic piece of work. This module will give you the tools to tackle these real-life musical challenges.

This module looks at the key skills and abilities required for entrepreneurs to develop new business ideas in the creative industries. As new technologies and media converge, the need to understand how new concepts are generated is one of the key tools for contemporary and future creative industry practitioners. Generating successful business ideas is a process of creative thinking and a critical awareness of the business landscape. This module will focus on both the theoretical and practical as

This module aims to develop your critical understanding of the challenges behind solo and ensemble performance through the lens of performance psychology. By understanding the roots of today's performance culture in historical, social and cultural contexts, you will work at developing and enhancing your own effective solo and ensemble live and recorded performance strategies.

This module investigates the ways in which topics in music history have been constructed in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries. You will explore specific musical works alongside musicological responses. These works will be discussed in the context of culture and cultural transfer, race and ethnicity, musical analysis, gender, psychoanalysis, listening, music and the body, music and exoticism, film music, music and religion/spirituality, jazz studies, and music technology and recorded

Research suggests that the majority of musicians earn a significant proportion of their income through teaching and, therefore, knowledge and experience should be considered an important addition to the skill-set. This module provides an excellent opportunity for you to test your potential as a music educator. We intend to give you a flavour of working in education, researching into pedagogical ideas and equipping you with valuable skills that are transferable to your career.

The aim of the module is to foster the skills needed to become a dynamic, creative and engaging team-player, demonstrating leadership and problem-solving qualities as well as an independent, empathic and reflective musician. This module aims to consolidate the range of skills needed for you to engage with the creative industries as an expert and versatile performer.

This module provides you with the experience of undertaking a detailed investigation into a well-defined area of musical knowledge and/or practice, which you will choose yourself. The balance of text and other materials is to be negotiated.