Music

About this course

Music at Oxford is one of the most intellectually demanding and wide-ranging undergraduate degrees in the arts. It is built on the conviction that engaging with music seriously means developing multiple interconnected capacities: the ability to listen with analytical precision, to understand the historical and theoretical traditions that have shaped Western and other musical cultures, to work creatively through composition, and to engage with the scholarly and critical debates that surround all of these activities. The degree at Oxford does not separate performance from intellectual inquiry but treats them as complementary modes of engaging with the same deep questions about what music is and how it works. Studying music at the University of Oxford, you will explore music through harmony, counterpoint, and analysis; through music history from the medieval period to the present day; thro

Where its graduates go

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• 32 / 100Artistic, literary and media occupations · 30% of graduatescards →

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