Music

Currently, students study a choice of optional modules. King's reviews its options on a regular basis, in order to continue to offer innovative and exciting programmes and this list is therefore subject to change. Please check here for updates, or contact the School/Department for further advice. Throughout the three-years of the course, there is also the opportunity for students to take modules at the Royal Academy of Music as well as a certain number of modules in other Departments and thus profit from the excellent academic resources offered at King's.

You take 120 credits of optional modules from the list.

There are no core modules.

Musical Performance
Musical Analysis
Techniques of Composition (harmony & counterpoint)
Issues & Topics in Music History
Music and Globalisation since 1900
Aural Training
Writing About Music

You take 120 credits of optional modules from the list.

There are no core modules.

Musical Performance
Musical Analysis
Techniques of Composition (Fugue & 19th-century Lieder)
Free Composition

History of Music modules- in any one academic session, several of the following will be offered:

Introduction to Medieval Music I & II
Western Music & Race
Keyboard Music from JS Bach to Beethoven
Wagner
The Symphony from Berlioz to Mahler
Narrative & Lyricism in 19th-century Song
Musical Modernism since 1945
Music & Worship in England 1470-1605
Performance Practice
Early Renaissance Music, 1420-1520
The Jazz Tradition: Fact or Fiction?
Italian Opera in the 19th Century

You can take 120 credits from the modules list below as well as from second year modules not already taken (see list in Year 2).

There are no core modules.

Advanced Performance Studies (admission by audition)
Musical Performance III
Techniques of Composition III
Advanced Free Composition (admission by portfolio)
Dissertation

History of music modules- in any one academic session, several of the following will be on offer:
Sacred Continental Polyphony between Josquin & Monteverdi
Music & Society in France 1789-1870
Mozart in Vienna
Performance Practice on Record
The Beethoven Myth
Opera and Reason
Origins of Twentieth Century Music
Gender and Sexuality in Indian Music
Introduction to 20th-century Opera
The Philosophy & Psychology of Musical Perception
Musical Quality & Musical Taste
The Broadway Musical from Showboat to West Side Story