Music

Music as a university degree is a wide-ranging discipline that encompasses performance, composition, music technology, analysis, history and the critical and cultural frameworks through which music is understood as both an art and a social practice. At degree level, music study moves well beyond playing or singing to examine how musical works are structured, how they create meaning, how musical traditions have developed across different cultures and periods, and how music functions in relation to power, identity and everyday life. It is a discipline that rewards deep listening, sustained practice and the ability to engage both analytically and creatively with sound.

At the University of Chichester you will study music over three years of full-time study on a programme that balances practical and contextual work, engaging with a wide variety of topics within the field. You will develop performance and composition skills alongside music theory, harmony, analysis and historical study, building the broad musical literacy that a comprehensive music education aims to produce. The programme is taught within a department that takes both the practical and intellectual dimensions of music seriously, and the typical tariff of 136 reflects a programme that expects both musical ability and academic engagement from its students.

Graduates of music programmes pursue careers as performers, composers, music educators, music therapists, music journalists, sound engineers, arts administrators and professionals in the recording and live music industries. Many develop portfolio careers that combine several of these dimensions, reflecting the varied and often non-linear nature of professional music life. Teaching is a significant route, both in schools and in private tuition, and the broad practical and analytical formation provided by a music degree is valued in educational contexts at all levels.

Many graduates go on to postgraduate study in performance, composition, musicology, music technology or music education, deepening their practice or developing specialist expertise in a particular area of musical life.