Bachelor of Music
University of Cambridge Emmanuel College
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Campus location
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Languages
English
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Earliest start date
Aug 2023
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Introduction
The purpose of the Music Tripos is to furnish students with a sophisticated understanding of music and its cultural context, while helping them to develop fundamental practical and critical skills.
It covers a broad range of disciplines, from the history and analysis of Western music to ethnomusicology, performance studies and music and science, as well as traditional technical exercises in harmony and counterpoint. Since the Music Tripos is very wide-ranging, much of the teaching is co-ordinated between the colleges; besides their supervisions at Emmanuel, students are supervised by members of other colleges in the University.
Students spend their first year taking courses in music history, analysis, and general aspects of the study of music, as well as studying tonal skills, musicianship and keyboard skills. Besides the lectures for each course, this typically involves three to four supervisions a week (harmony and counterpoint, history, analysis, musicology) and two Faculty classes (keyboard harmony, aural training).
The final two years of the degree allow greater choice, with students able to select from a range of more specialized historical, theoretical and practical papers, from performance studies to ethnomusicological subjects, from notation to advanced composition, from popular music to dissertations on subjects chosen by individual students; second- and third-year students also have the opportunity to offer a recital as part of their examination. In the third year courses are typically taught in seminars, rather than through lectures and supervisions.