Venues

Merchiston Campus

Content

You will have the opportunity to develop and demonstrate your knowledge and understanding of your creative and scholarly intentions and mindset, with music as the primary medium for exploration and expression across a range of genres, including Classical, Jazz, Contemporary Commercial, Avant Garde and Popular Music styles (including Hip Hop, and Electronic Music).

You will explore music in practical and contextual perspectives and domains, to develop your practical, critical and analytical skills and attributes. You will experience performance in a solo and/or ensemble/band context, depending on your specialism, with accompaniment provision (where appropriate). The practical application of orchestration/arranging and composition is emphasised through collaborative projects and workshops with instrumentalists.

With modules that prepare you for careers in education and community music, the university has one of the few music departments in the country to offer an undergraduate module in Music Therapy.

Entry Requirements

2025 entry requirements:

Standard entry:
4 Highers at ABBB including English or another English based subject.

Widening Access entry:
4 Highers at ABCC including English or another English based subject.

You will be required to submit a showreel/portfolio demonstrating either your composition work or your performance ability. Please visit the university website for further details.