Bachelor of Music

Explore your passion for music through a contemporary music degree. The Bachelor of Music equips students with the artistic knowledge, musicianship, technical fluency, creativity, critical listening and analytical skills for the music, creative arts and music education industries. The focus of the course is on popular and contemporary music with an international perspective.

Students study 24 Professional Core music units across the areas of practical performance, music theory, listening skills, arranging, music technology and music history. Popular western music, jazz, electronic music, and non-western ‘world’ music are explored through practice, theory, cultural analysis and critical listening. Cutting-edge music technology underpins units that explore songwriting and arranging techniques. Music cognition is a rapidly emerging field of study that will be explored in the context of developing students’ listening skills and musicianship.