About Music (ba) in Cardiff University

This flexible and challenging programme will allow you to specialise and develop your own musical interests while acquiring a solid, broad-based education in aesthetics, analysis, composition, ethnomusicology, music history and performance.

As well as the key foundations of an education in music, this programme offers you a flexible and diverse range of modules. You may also be able to study topics in other Schools, subject to availability. If you would prefer to focus solely on music, consider our BMus course (which includes composition and performance as third-year major projects) as an alternative.

You will also be encouraged to join our School-led musical ensembles, representing a wide range of musical repertoires and traditions.

Distinctive features

• You will receive fully-funded instrumental tuition on your principal study instrument if you are taking a Practical Musicianship module.
• The Business of Music modules offer insight into the working world, as well as the opportunity to undertake a short work placement.
• The School hosts regular composition workshops; performance masterclasses; a regular concert series; John Bird lectures presented by visiting academics; and a series of careers in music talks which provide opportunities for contact with active music professionals.
• Opportunity to broaden your study and select modules from other subjects.
• The opportunity to undertake major projects in musicology, analysis, and ethnomusicology in year three and minor projects in composition and performance.
• You will have the opportunity to spend a semester studying abroad in your second year.

Academic qualification equivalents

• Entry requirements for individual programmes will vary, however, a typical offer will range between 78 and 81% in your best four Standard XII subjects (excluding Hindi and P.E).

English language requirements 

• IELTS : 6.5
• TOEFL IBT: 90
• PTE: 62

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Cardiff University Cost of Attendance

The estimated fees for the 2020/2021 academic session are presented in the table below.