Music
The Music papers are taught by the Faculty of Music. The course is intended to deepen your understanding of music and its historical and cultural context, to help you gain fundamental skills in writing and analysing music, and to allow you to continue to develop your practical and performing abilities.
Preliminary Examination to Part I
In the first year you choose two papers from five, topics include Harmony and Counterpoint, Historical Subjects, Historical and Cultural Studies or Analysis.
Part I
In your second year (Part I), you can choose two or three papers from a wide range of options including Composition, Subjects in Music History, Musical Analysis, An Introduction to Music and Science, and Ethnomusicology.
Part II
If you choose to study Music in your final year you can take up to two papers in music, these include further Composition or Performance papers, a Dissertation, papers in Analysis, Topics in Music History.
Music Website
More information on specific papers can be found here.
Colleges that offer Education with Music
Christ's, Churchill, Clare, Downing, Emmanuel, Fitzwilliam, Gonville and Caius, Homerton, Hughes Hall, Jesus, Lucy Cavendish, Magdalene, Queens, St Edmund's, St John's, Selwyn, and Wolfson.