Course details

Summary

Expand your musical technique and understanding within your choice of classical or jazz performance, composition, popular music or musicology at New Zealand’s largest tertiary music school.

Musicology Major

Musicology is the academic study of music. Learn more about music's place in the world as you focus on musicology or music education. You will develop your understanding, writing, teaching and learning, critical thinking and analytical skills to prepare you for a wide range of careers in fields such as teaching, journalism, academia or analysis of music.

Degree structure

What you'll be studying

From your first year, you will be immersed in music – how to think and write about music, how it is constructed and how music is both taught and learned. As you progress, you will learn more about music's role in society and politics, discover historical music you may have never heard, and explore music’s role in our modern globalised and media-savvy world. You will also take two General Education courses offered by other faculties from across the University to acquire a broader range of skills and understanding, and to be exposed to cross-disciplinary research.
Further study

The BMus, and associated conjoint programmes, lead into further study options at the School of Music. Our postgraduate degree programmes encourage initiative, critical analysis and independent thought about music in social, cultural and academic contexts as well as creative excellence.

Research programmes

• Master of Music (MMus)
• Doctor of Music (DMus)
• Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA)
• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Taught programmes

• Bachelor of Music (Honours) (BMus(Hons))
• Postgraduate Diploma in Music (PGDipMus)
• Graduate Diploma in Music (GradDipMus)

Jobs related to this programme

• Arranger/composer
• Arts administrator/manager/director
• Conductor
• Music director
• Music journalist
• Performer
• Radio/television/digital media/recording producer
• Sound engineer

Entry criteria

Secondary school qualifications

You need to have one of the following:

International Baccalaureate Diploma with a minimum total score of 24.

General Certificate of Education (GCE) Advanced Level. You must have completed a minimum of three A-Level subjects with at least a 'C' grade or higher. General Studies or similar general papers cannot be included.

GCE ‘A’ Level requirements apply to ‘A’ Level qualifications examined by bodies such as AQA, OCR, Edexcel, WJEC, CCEA, Pearson Education Limited and CIE taken outside of New Zealand.

English language requirements:

IELTS 6.0; TOEFL (iBT) 80; TOEFL (paper-based) 550; CAE or CPE 169; PTE 50; MELAB 80.