Start Date
Mon 22nd September 2025
Attendance
Full-time
Duration
1 Years
Location
Bournemouth Campus
Adult Fee
9250.00
Adult Fee with Concession
9250.00
Music & Sound Production BA (Hons) Top-up
Subject Area
Music
Attendance
Full-time
Duration
1 Years
Location
Bournemouth Campus
Course Overview
Course Overview:
The BA (Hons) Music and Sound Production is a one-year top-up course that provides students with the creative experience and technical knowledge required to build and enhance a career in music production. The course primarily engages the student with technology but is intended to provide opportunities for any suitably qualified candidate with an established interest in writing / producing / collaborating in music production.
This Level 6 programme is an advanced course that moves beyond the FdA content covered at Levels 4 and 5, encouraging you to become owners of your own academic and career journey culminating in the curation of a significant body of assessed work. You will be expected to produce work that is finished to a professional standard, presented in the appropriate formats, and meets the needs of the objectives set.
You will begin your year in the unit ‘Arranging’. Here you will consider the relationships between mixing and orchestration. You will study the ways in which musical elements are balanced against each other to create specific music effects and styles and practice re-arranging / re-mixing music to create new versions. Such practice relates to the frequent requirements of music publishers for different versions of material. In addition to this area of study the unit will teach you how to create parts for session musicians. It is not uncommon for a producer to enhance the work of an artist through the addition of parts such as counter melodies, harmonies, brass and string pads etc. To this end you will learn to create basic parts, fit for modification by the professional musician, using music notation software to meet the needs of the reader and assessment.
You will simultaneously undertake Unit 2 ‘Research Project’. In agreement with your tutor, you will choose an area for close study and develop a full dissertation on the subject in question. The dissertation may be presented in a variety of forms, written work, verbal presentation, audio, visual production etc. This major piece of work may utilise practical skills and experimentation but must conform with the notion of academic rigour. It should be substantial, draw on authoritative research sources (referenced using the Harvard system) and meet the objectives established with your tutor at the start. To this end the student will need to propose a detailed plan, prior to commencement.
Following these two units you will carry out the final unit ‘Final Major Project’. This will be a substantial project of your own choosing which must be agreed with your tutor. It should lead to the creation of your highest quality, exemplar work. The unit will begin with taught sessions on project planning and will incorporate sessions on business planning, event management, rights management, and budget planning. The student’s projects may involve members of the external music community, collaborations with peers, private clients etc, or be completely directed at their own aims for future employment. Delivery will therefore move from the initial model of taught sessions in the early part of the year to regular 1:1 support through tutorials.
Course Content:
The course aims to foster and develop forward thinking, creative individuals ready to play an active role within the music community. You will engage in current social, and cultural contexts and be able to meet the needs of the role that you choose.
The course aims:
To encourage students to develop a comprehensive knowledge and experience of a wide range of techniques that improve their skills in music creation and production.
To engage students in academic research relating to the subject of music and production in a variety of cultural, historical and current contexts.
To foster learners’ creativity by acquainting them with notable practitioners and concepts in music / sound design and providing an opportunity to emulate, experiment and innovate.
To stimulate the student’s technical potential and emotional intelligence through collaboration with other practitioners, in their own, and other disciplines.
To provide students with a range of transferable skills in writing, working in teams, and IT, as a basis for professional activity and future employment.
To develop the student’s ability to solve problems and innovate in the course of their work.
To support students in working sustainably and with awareness of environmental global impact.
This is for students who have completed a Level 5 Music and/or Sound Production course e.g. FdA or HND (or equivalent).
Applicants should have a Level 5 qualification such as a Foundation Degree or an HND in a related subject area.
None required.
Successful graduates can progress to postgraduate study.
£9250 per annum.
Students who are eligible, can apply for a student loan via Student finance login - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) to cover the cost of the tutiton fees.
International Fees
We currently do not offer this course to International applicants due to UKVI regulations.
Course Content:
The course aims to foster and develop forward thinking, creative individuals ready to play an active role within the music community. You will engage in current social, and cultural contexts and be able to meet the needs of the role that you choose.
The course aims:
To encourage students to develop a comprehensive knowledge and experience of a wide range of techniques that improve their skills in music creation and production.
To engage students in academic research relating to the subject of music and production in a variety of cultural, historical and current contexts.
To foster learners’ creativity by acquainting them with notable practitioners and concepts in music / sound design and providing an opportunity to emulate, experiment and innovate.
To stimulate the student’s technical potential and emotional intelligence through collaboration with other practitioners, in their own, and other disciplines.
To provide students with a range of transferable skills in writing, working in teams, and IT, as a basis for professional activity and future employment.
To develop the student’s ability to solve problems and innovate in the course of their work.
To support students in working sustainably and with awareness of environmental global impact.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
· Use a range of established techniques to initiate and undertake critical analysis of information, and to propose solutions to problems arising from that analysis.
· Demonstrate knowledge and critical understanding of the well-established principles of music and sound production, and of the way in which those principles have developed.
· Demonstrate knowledge of how to plan for business as a freelance or employed Sound practitioner
· Demonstrate the ability to apply underlying concepts and principles outside the context in which they were first studied to create new work.
· Collaborate with other creative practitioners demonstrating an awareness of professionalism and subject specific knowledge.
· Effectively communicate information, arguments and analysis in a variety of forms to specialist and non-specialist audiences and deploy key techniques of the discipline effectively
· Evaluate the appropriateness of different approaches to solving problems related to music and sound production and / or work
Awarding Body:
Arts University Bournemouth (AUB)
Curriculum Area:
Creative and Digital Industries - Music
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