Venues

Merchiston Campus

Content

Year 1:
Music in the Community; Popular Music History; Music Technology; Performance Studies (principal study); Options (Recording; Ensemble Performance; Language and Structures of Music).

Year 2:
Performance Studies; Music Technology; Music Business; Popular Music Culture; Options (Recording; Ensemble Performance; Score Writing; Jazz Improvisation; Language and Structures of Music; Acoustics; Music in the Community).

Year 3:
Music, Creativity and Communication; World Music; Music Business; Options (Performance Studies; Music Software Applications; Jazz Improvisation; Music for the Screen; Popular Music Analysis; Recording; Music Therapy; Interactive Music Modelling; Electroacoustic Composition; Instrumental/Vocal Teaching).

Year 4:
Major Music Project; Fast Track Entrepreneurship; Options (Performance Studies; Interactive Music Modelling; Dissertation; Music and Aesthetics; Instrumental/Vocal Teaching; Jazz Improvisation; Sound Synthesis; Music Psychology and Studio Professional Practice and Accreditation).

Entry Requirements

2021 entry requirements:
4 Highers at ABCC including Music at A and English or another English based subject at B.

Entry requirements are the same for Standard and Widening Access entry.

Interview and audition forms part of the application process. ABRSM Grade 5 standard Theory.