The Theatre and Film Composition pathways offer a balanced spread of practice-based activities, historical-theoretical studies, and industry-related insights.

Alongside a traditional exploration of compositional practices – through modules such as Composition and Harmony, and Composition and Orchestration – the course provides a unique focus on the relationship between music and narrative, which you will encounter in the modules Music and Narrative: Concepts and Music and Narrative: Case Studies.

This emphasis will allow you to explore music and composition in relation to drama, narration, discourse, images and action; elements that will strengthen and expand your compositional vision and ideas.

The Level 5 and 6 (Year 2 and 3) optional modules will determine your composition specialism and pathway.

The course will give you the opportunity to gain a robust understanding of the dynamics of the creative industries, through modules such as Business Skills for the Music Industry and Promoting your career, as well as develop and discuss your own portfolio of works, which will allow you to promote yourself professionally.

If you choose to pursue a specialism in Film Composition you will have to choose all the Level 5 and 6 optional modules dedicated to this area of composition and vice versa if you would like to pursue Theatre Composition.

You may also want to study optional modules from both the Film and Theatre strands (within the overall 360 credits limit), in order to obtain the generic award of BMus (Hons) Composition.

On graduating with a Composition degree, you could work in the following sectors:

Creative Industry

• Composer
• Arranger
• Orchestrator
• Editor
• Copyist
• Musical Director

Arts Industry

• Arts Management and Organisation
• Performing Arts Producer & Marketing

Education

• Primary / Secondary school teaching
• Private Sector
• Workshop facilitator
• Peripatetic Music Teacher

Creative-related Industry

• Performing Arts Journalism Critics
• Performing Arts Fundraising and Budgeting