Today, music is the third largest industry in the UK with a wide range of opportunities, employing an estimated 130,000 full-time equivalent personnel.

Subject Overview

Students follow the Edexcel specification. The AS/A2 course combines musical analysis, harmony (Bach style) and counterpoint, composing, performing, and listening and appraising

Teaching Approaches

Most lessons will contain practical elements, e.g. composition, where you develop your creative ability to develop musical ideas.

Higher Education Opportunities

Whatever your interest, there are jobs in teaching or music therapy, production, promotion, management, as well as performance.

Supportive Material

BBC Radio 3
A History of Western Music, Norton

Teaching staff: Sonja Freter