Programme Content Students attend fortnightly tutorials in the Department of Music in composition, instrumentation and critical analysis in addition to a weekly class in studio techniques and film and television composition. In the Department of Drama, students engage in regular practical work associated with current department projects, and attend appropriate drama-related classes involving the provision of music tracks for theatre and a series of exercises, projects and productions on broadcast quality video and 16mm film. This in turn entails exploration of conventions and genres as well as mastery of technical processes. Students who successfully complete the taught programme and do not continue to the final submissions may be eligible for the award of a Diploma. A good Honours Degree or equivalent from an overseas University or a Conservatoire.
Every student is allocated a supervisor who has a pastoral as well as an academic role.
All candidates are initially registered for the MLitt. The postgraduate community has made a substantial contribution to published scholarship, yielding such items as a Musica Britannica volume, entries for the revised New Grove Dictionary and a major article in the Galpin Society Journal . The Music Department is home to a large community of postgraduate composers. Many of our postgraduate composers have achieved distinction through commissions and broadcasts in the UK and abroad. Recent student successes include commissions from the Bath Festival, Apartment House, the English Chamber Orchestra and the Arts Council of Wales, and performances at the National New Composers' Forum by the English Northern Philharmonia, at the Cheltenham Festival, by the Beethoven Academy Orchestra in Amsterdam, and broadcasts on Radio 3 and Belgian and Norwegian radio.