Program Overview

Music surrounds us. It has a profound effect on us as individuals and shapes wider society. It's used for personal pleasure, intellectual stimulation, celebration, mourning, and political propaganda.

At Nottingham you’ll explore both how music does this and how your creativity can produce music that people will remember.

All of our students get a common introduction to the basic building blocks of music across styles, genres, cultures and traditions.

You'll then have the freedom to choose. If you want to specialise in musicology, performance, composition or technology you can. Alternatively, explore widely across our diverse mix of modules. Combine Early Music with Race and Musical Theatre or Conducting with Studio Recording. You can build your degree to suit your interests.

We encourage collaboration between students, joining up work across modules and getting involved in staff projects. Recent examples of student projects.

Our facilities support your choices. We have purpose-built spaces to compose, rehearse, perform, record and experiment!

The opportunities to perform are extensive:

Check out the full range of performance possibilities.

Find out more about what it’s like to study in the Department of Music.

“I've always been sceptical of the argument that you should work out exactly what you want to do and tailor your degree towards that. I absolutely loved my degree, but particularly because I was learning all sorts of skills while doing something that I was really interested in.”

Jamie Njoku-Goodwin, BA Music 2012, now Chief Executive of UK Music