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10. Music is always growing
Music is always growing – new music is being made, performed, recorded and investigated all the time. Studying music at the OU not only allows you to explore this continually developing area, but contribute to it as well. Thus A224 … Continue reading
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8. Music is always changing
Music is always changing – even well-established pieces of music go through striking transformations in the way they are performed, as the following podcast on the Air from J.S. Bach’s Third Orchestral Suite (from the Music Department’s third level undergraduate … Continue reading
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4. Music is creative
Music is creative – you’ll learn about how musicians work creatively with sound, and experience this for yourself. As we mentioned earlier in this series of blogs, you don’t have to be an expert musician to understand more about music. … Continue reading
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3. Music has many forms
Music has many forms, from songs to sound tracks, sonatas to symphonies. Whatever form of music takes your fancy, you’re likely to find it somewhere in our modules. Just as novelists and poets all use the same letters to make … Continue reading
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2. Music is everywhere
Music is everywhere – in our modules you’ll discover how music works and explore what music means and what it does. Music is all around us, all of the time. It isn’t just something which happens in designated spaces like … Continue reading
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1. Music is for everyone
Music is for everyone – you can start studying music with us from scratch. You can begin by looking at our free taster materials on OpenLearn, or sign up for the next presentation of our MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) – From … Continue reading
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10 Reasons to Study Music at the Open University
We’re running a series of short blogs outlining reasons to study music with us. Read these as they come in at https://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/music/ or by following the #10reasonsOUMusic hashtag on Twitter. We provide a wide range of opportunities at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, … Continue reading
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MA in Music taster course….
OpenLearn have just published a free course that allows prospective students a taster of the Music MA. Entitled ‘An Introduction to Music Research’ the 16-hour course draws upon the content of both A873 (MA in Music Part 1) and A874 … Continue reading
Behind the scenes: filming for our MOOC
Recently Naomi Barker and Catherine Tackley spent the day at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) in Manchester filming content for the Department’s Futurelearn Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) From notation to performance: Understanding musical scores. In the first of a … Continue reading
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New undergraduate music module launches this autumn!
The Music Department is delighted to announce the launch of A342, Central questions in the study of music. The 60-credit module will explore the meanings and functions of music across a range of contexts, past and present. Registration is now … Continue reading