Music with Teaching Bachelor of Music (with Honours) - MusB (Hon)

The BMus (Hons) Music with Teaching is a three-year, full-time undergraduate programme for students who want to develop as confident, skilled and adaptable musicians first, while also exploring music teaching and facilitation practice as part of a broader professional skillset. It is a linked award that draws substantially on the established BMus (Hons) Music curriculum, enabling students to benefit from the applied performance focus, creative and research-informed study, digital/industry development and collaborative musicianship of the parent programme, while following a focused teaching-related strand. 

The programme combines conservatoire-informed practical performance training with the wider benefits of a university music education. Students build secure technical foundations, creative confidence, critical thinking, collaborative capability and an informed understanding of contemporary musical practice and music industries. Alongside this, they develop teaching-related skills in learner-centred communication, inclusive practice, feedback, progression, one-to-one and group teaching, facilitation, and ethical professional conduct. 

The curriculum is shaped around seven connected programme areas: Performing Music; Understanding and Researching Music; Creating Music; Industry Readiness; Teaching Skills; Preparation and Reflection; and Professional Collaboration. The award remains a music degree first, with teaching operating as a distinctive complementary strand. Students are part of the wider BMus Music learning community, developing performance, musicianship, creative, research and industry skills alongside other musicians, while the teaching modules give them dedicated opportunities to explore how musical knowledge can be communicated, adapted and developed with learners. 

At Level 4, students establish foundations in applied performance, musical grammar, creative musicianship, digital skills for online presence and introductory music teaching. At Level 5, they extend their interpretative, stylistic, creative and professional practice through Applied Performance Practice 2, Creative Musicianship 2, Research Led Practice and Musical Style, Content Creation and Music Enterprise, and One to One and Group Teaching. At Level 6, they consolidate their learning through the Music with Teaching Capstone Project, Industry Portfolio, The Psychology of Music Performance and Outreach & Community Music. 

The industry-readiness strand develops progressively across the degree. At Level 4, Digital Skills and Online Presence for Musicians supports students to acquire foundational digital, media and platform tools. At Level 5, Content Creation and Music Enterprise enables students to create prototype content and explore realistic enterprise thinking. At Level 6, Industry Portfolio supports students to curate, polish and activate launch-ready or professionally credible materials for external-facing contexts, including teaching, facilitation, community music or further-training pathways where appropriate. 

The programme does not confer Qualified Teacher Status. Instead, the teaching focus provides musically grounded preparation for graduates who may wish to progress into postgraduate teacher training, instrumental or vocal teaching, private or peripatetic teaching, workshop leadership, community music or outreach contexts, or wider creative industries employment. Students are introduced to professional responsibility, safeguarding awareness, consent for recorded or observed teaching activity, inclusive practice, ethical communication and appropriate professional boundaries.