University of Nottingham
| Nottingham’s first civic college was opened in the city centre in 1881, four years after the foundation stone was laid by former Prime Minister, W E Gladstone. An anonymous benefactor had offered £10,000 for a college on condition that a suitable building be erected by the Council and that the college should be provided with £4,000 a year. In 1948, the college was awarded the Royal Charter and became The University of Nottingham, now able to award degrees in its own name. During this period the School of Agriculture was established when the Midland College of Agriculture at Sutton Bonington merged with the University. |
Degree
| Undergraduate | |
| Music BA | Music surrounds us. It has a profound effect on us as individuals and shapes wider society. At Nottingham you’ll learn both how it does this and how your creativity can produce music that people will remember. |
| Music and Music Technology BA | |
| Music and Philosophy BA | If you’re a keen musician who wants to explore the exciting world philosophy offers then this is the course for you. |
| Liberal Arts | To solve its problems depends on a range of knowledge and skills. No one has it all! But the better you can communicate yours, and recognise the value of others’, the more you’ll succeed. |
| Foundation route | The foundation year is for talented UK and EU students who do not meet the usual criteria for our degrees. It is an opportunity for you to develop key skills before progressing to a choice of 22 courses. These skills include communication, critical thinking, teamwork, and digital ability. |
| Gradute | |
| Music MRes | Pursue your own passions and reach professional skill levels with the support of dedicated academics. |
| Music Composition MPhil/PhD | A superb opportunity to develop your own portfolio of compositions in a professional and supportive environment. We welcome a broad range of styles and approaches. |
| Musicology MPhil/Phd | We welcome a broad range of topics for doctoral research. All of our academic staff are internationally recognised scholars in their fields. You are encouraged identify a suitable supervisor to discuss your proposal. |
| Music Performance MPhil/PhD | Through an agreed programme of original research you will: deepen critical engagement with, and understanding of, performance practice explore specific aspects of technique or repertoire. |
| Research | The Department of Music researches in a wide variety of areas. To help focus our research, we have clustered it into four areas: |
| Much of our research explores music and musical culture in a specific time and place; transnational and transcultural exchange; and urban geographies and mobility | |
| We are interested in exploring how music interacts with other art forms, and in applying and developing methodologies from other disciplines. | |
| We are excited by musical creativity in its own right – as performance, composition, improvisation – and in the development of musical communities and networks. | |
| We are interested in the ways in which music has contributed to local, national and international political change, and shaped individual identities. | |
| The Centre for Music on Stage and Screen (MOSS) promotes the interaction of history, theory and practice in the study of opera, ballet, melodrama, film, video and other multi-media performance genres. Based in the Department of Music, it encourages multi-disciplinary and inter-institutional collaboration through a developing programme of academic and practical research activities. |
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