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Supporting Studies

The components of the Supporting Studies curriculum are designed to enhance musicianship and broaden musical awareness.

AuralTraining
Mandatory coursework focuses on pitch, rhythm, intonation, polyphonic awareness, and texture. Preliminary training is available for students with limited aural training experience.

Keyboard Skills
The curriculum covers score-reading, harmonisation, improvisation, and accompaniment. Preliminary training is available for students with limited keyboard experience.

Conducting
All students are taught the basic elements of baton technique.

Technology
An introductory course for all students covering computer production techniques necessary to the contemporary performer.

Principles of Education and Music in Community
Compulsory components of Year 3. A pass in Principles of Education is a registration requirement for the LRAM diploma.

Preparing for the profession
The Academy’s Business for Musicians module, another mandatory part of the undergraduate training programme, spills over into a series of ‘Into the Future’ seminar days, open to musicians from across the country as well as Academy students. Industry-wide business practitioners present guidance on many career and development-related subjects.

LRAM teaching diploma
The Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music (LRAM) teaching diploma provides a comprehensive, practically-based introduction to the principles of teaching and is available to all students. LRAM registration costs around £100.

ABRSM diplomas
The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM) offers a range of diplomas in Performance, Teaching and Directing. The Academy has historic links with the Board and encourages students to consider taking one or more of the Board’s diploma qualifications in addition to the LRAM. Details of the Board’s diplomas can be obtained from www.abrsm.org

Further Information

Exchanges
The Academy offers its students the chance to study abroad as part of their undergraduate studies. Two types of exchanges are on offer: those run by the European Union under the Socrates- Erasmus exchange scheme, and individual
arrangements with institutions in North America, Australia and Japan, as well as with institutions in Europe which are not members of the Socrates-Erasmus scheme. Exchanges are increasingly popular and provide students with an excellent opportunity to broaden their musical horizons.

Entry to the BMus programme other than inYear 1
In some cases it is possible to enter BMus inYear 2 orYear 3.You will normally be studying on a music degree at another institution, and will have received sufficient credits to allow a transfer to the Academy’s degree programme. Entry will usually be to Year 2, however in exceptional cases entry toYear 3 may be possible. Any transfer must be agreed by your current institution.

Classification of degrees
In awarding degrees, examiners take into account the total number of passes obtained, the standard at which courses have been passed, the distribution of marks, any material improvement or deterioration in a student’s performance during the degree course, as well as additional factors such as illness or other personal circumstances known to them.

Annual Review
Students academic progress is reviewed at the end of each year. Progress depends on amassing the appropriate number of credits and satisfying requirements of attendance. End-of-year interviews are held in June at which the Tutors evaluate the past year with students and discuss the next year’s programme of study. The Academy reserves the right to refuse re-admission on the grounds of a student’s lack of industry.

‘The full range of more conventional musical activity is all there, of course, but the Academy is embracing the new technology and new musical directions to be found in the worlds both of education and the music profession.. the developments at the Academy are many, and would probably have horrified a lot of its denizens of 30 years ago’.
Classical Music, September 2006.
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