Course

Bachelor of Music

Approved Abbreviation: BMus

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Western Sydney University Course Code: 1659.1

AQF Level: 7

CRICOS Code: 065052F

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Students should follow the course structure for the course version relevant to the year they commenced. This version applies to students whose commencement year for this course is 2009 or 2010.

Units may be revised or replaced to ensure students are provided with up to date curriculum throughout their studies, and this may result in a new course version. Refer to the Check My Course Progress page in MySR for the most up to date information for your course.

The Bachelor of Music develops innovative, articulate musicians who contribute to the music community and the culture it serves. It offers high-level training in music, music performance, composition, sound technologies, music theory, musicology, arranging music and music analysis. It does this in well-equipped studios, and in a lecture/workshop/tutorial environment. Skills in music performance, composition and sound technologies are augmented by intellectual, theoretical and contextual studies. An active staff of music-academics supports students to develop their individual goals.

Study Mode
Three years full-time or six years part-time.

Admission

You will be selected on an interview/audition in which personal aptitude, professional experience and educational qualifications are taken into consideration. After you have applied to UAC you are required to book yourself in for an interview/audition and download a questionnaire at this University’s online audition booking system available at:

Online audition booking system

If you have difficulty in accessing the web, call 1300 897 669. Please bring the completed questionnaire with you to the audition. At your audition you will be asked to perform from two contrasting pieces of music.

Course Structure

Qualification for this award requires the successful completion of 240 credit points.

Full-time

Year 1

Autumn session

101519

Musics, Histories and Flights of the Imagination

101520

Basic Composition, Craft and Theory

101525

Introduction to Music Performance

101526

Introduction to Sound Technologies

Spring session

101534

Music: Modernism, Postmodernism and Beyond

101522

Composition, Craft and Theory

101524

Free and Notated Music Performance

101538

Sound Synthesis and the Sound Environment

Year 2

Autumn session

101523

Cultural Paradigms and Music

101530

Music Composition: Concepts and Creativity

One sub-major unit

And one elective unit

Spring session

101528

Modes and Codes of Music Production

101120

Arranging Musics

One sub-major unit

And one elective unit

Year 3

Autumn session

101532

Music in Theory and Practice

101152

Music and Analysis

One sub-major unit

And one elective unit

Spring session

101529

Music and Meaning

101472

Music Project

One sub-major unit

And one sub-major or elective unit

Optional elective units available to all students

102248

Music and Wellbeing

102281

Popular Music Communities

Sub-majors

Note: The sub-majors listed below are only available to students enrolled in the Bachelor of Music

All students must complete one of the following sub-majors. One of the other sub-majors may also be completed using elective places.

SM1015

Composition

SM1016

Sound Technologies

SM1017

Music Performance

Note: The sub-majors listed below are only available to non-Bachelor of Music students but restrictions apply

SM1039

Sound Technology Studies

SM1047

Music Performance Studies

SM1065

Musicology

Sub-major elective spaces

Elective units may be used toward obtaining an additional approved sub-major (40 credit points).

Search for sub-majors

Western Sydney University offers sub-majors in a range of areas including Sustainability and Indigenous Studies.

Indigenous Australian Studies Sub-major

Indigenous Australian Creative Expressions Sub-major

Indigenous Economics Sub-major

Business Sustainability Sub-major

Students can apply for an elective major or sub-major via MySR.

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