Music

Music is a discipline that encompasses the performance, creation, history, theory, and critical understanding of one of the most universal forms of human expression. Studying music at degree level means engaging seriously with all these dimensions, developing your own musical practice while also building the intellectual frameworks needed to understand how music works, how it has changed across time and cultures, and what it means in the social and cultural contexts in which it is heard and made.

At the University of Southampton, this part-time degree provides a broad musical education across all forms and styles, with the opportunity to specialise in areas including music performance, history, composition, and technology. You will develop the skills and experience needed for a successful career in and around music, whether that career takes you into performance, composition, research, education, or one of the many adjacent professional roles in the music and creative industries. Southampton's vibrant musical life provides a supportive environment for musical development alongside rigorous academic study.

Music graduates pursue careers across a wide range of musical and broader creative contexts. Performance, composition, music education, arts administration, music journalism, music technology, and roles in the music and entertainment industries are all natural directions. The critical and analytical skills that music study develops are also valued in many careers beyond the arts: journalism, communications, education, and the cultural sector all benefit from graduates who can think carefully about creative work and communicate their ideas with clarity.

Postgraduate study in music, musicology, composition, or music technology is available for those who wish to develop specialist expertise.