Music courses
Whether you’re looking to study for your profession or for purely personal interest, our music courses offer you the opportunity to learn how music is created, study a wide range of styles, and unlock your own creativity. Choose from our range of degrees, diplomas and certificates.
Music
Degrees
- Also known as an undergraduate or bachelors degree.
- Internationally respected, universally understood.
- An essential requirement for many high-level jobs.
- Gain a thorough understanding of your subject – and the tools to investigate, think critically, form reasoned arguments, solve problems and communicate effectively in new contexts.
- Progress to higher level study, such as a postgraduate diploma or masters degree.
- Credits measure the student workload required for the successful completion of a module or qualification.
- One credit represents about 10 hours of study over the duration of the course.
- You are awarded credits after you have successfully completed a module.
- For example, if you study a 60-credit module and successfully pass it, you will be awarded 60 credits.
How long will it take?
Music
Diplomas
- Widely recognised qualification.
- Equivalent to the first two thirds of an honours degree.
- Enhance your professional and technical skills or extend your knowledge and understanding of a subject.
- Study for interest or career development.
- Top up to a full honours degree in just two years.
- Credits measure the student workload required for the successful completion of a module or qualification.
- One credit represents about 10 hours of study over the duration of the course.
- You are awarded credits after you have successfully completed a module.
- For example, if you study a 60-credit module and successfully pass it, you will be awarded 60 credits.
How long will it take?
Music
Certificates
- Widely recognised qualification.
- Equivalent to the first third of an honours degree.
- Study for interest or career development.
- Shows that you can study successfully at university level.
- Count it towards further qualifications such as a DipHE or honours degree.
- Credits measure the student workload required for the successful completion of a module or qualification.
- One credit represents about 10 hours of study over the duration of the course.
- You are awarded credits after you have successfully completed a module.
- For example, if you study a 60-credit module and successfully pass it, you will be awarded 60 credits.
How long will it take?
Why study Music with The Open University?
Our music modules and learning materials are recognised as among the best in the country, offering in-depth and up-to-date study of a wealth of musical styles, historical periods and themes, ranging from medieval to modern film scores.
The benefits of studying music with us are:
- No academic entry requirements, such as A-Level Music or passes in music performance exams.
- The opportunity to develop practical music and performance skills at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.
- Course materials prepared by world-leading experts in European music, ethnomusicology, music and theology, music technology, and film music.
- Music research rated joint first in The Guardian’s analysis of the 2014 Research Excellence Framework.
Careers in Music
The breadth of study and range of musical repertoire and practice explored, combined with clear thinking and communication, make our music courses relevant to a wide range of careers, including:
- Music Teacher
- Arts Administrator
- Sound Recordist
- Events Organiser
Looking for something other than a qualification?
The majority of our modules can be studied by themselves, on a stand-alone basis. If you later choose to work towards a qualification, you may be able to count your study towards it.
All Music courses
Browse all the Music courses we offer – certificates, diplomas and degrees.
See our full list of Music courses
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