Music (with Foundation Year) BA

Course Overview - Music (with Foundation Year) BA

Your Arts and Humanities Foundation Year will help prepare you for the BA Music. Music surrounds us. It has a profound effect on us as individuals and shapes wider society. Its used for pleasure, intellectual stimulation, celebration, mourning, wellbeing and as a vehicle for identity and politics. At Nottingham, you’ll explore both the power that music has and how your creativity can produce music that people will remember. 

First, through a range of engaging modules spanning the arts and humanities, you will undertake a preparatory Foundation Year. Here you will develop k...

Course Information

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Study Mode

Full-time

Duration

4 Years

Start Date

21/09/2026

Campus

University Park Campus

Course Address
University Park
Nottingham
NG7 2RD

Application Details

Course Code

W30F

Institution Code

N84

Points of Entry

Foundation

Entry Requirements

UCAS Tariff

Not Accepted

Scottish Higher

B,B,B,C,C

Plus two Advanced Higher Subjects with grades BC Including Music. If no Music then Grade 5 Theory ABRSM, LCM, Trinity or Rockschool may be accepted in place of Music.

Access to HE Diploma

D:15,M:18,P:12

12 Level 3 credits should be from Music and achieved at Distinction. ABRSM Grade 5 Theory must also be achieved

International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme

24

or 544 in 3 Higher Level Certificates including Higher Level 4 in Music. If no Music Grade 5 Theory ABRSM, LCM, Trinity or Rockschool may be accepted in place of A level music.

Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)

DMM

in Music or other subject combination provided Music requirement is met.

Leaving Certificate - Higher Level (Ireland) (first awarded in 2017)

H2,H2,H2,H3,H3

including Music. If no Music Grade 5 Theory ABRSM, LCM, Trinity or Rockschool may be accepted in place of A level music.

GCSE/National 4/National 5

GCSE English grade 4 (alpha grade C)

Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)

DM

and grade C in A Level Music. Music alternative must be provided if not studying A Level Music

Scottish Advanced Higher

B,C

Including Music plus BBBCC at Higher Level. If no Music then Grade 5 Theory ABRSM, LCM, Trinity or Rockschool may be accepted in place of A level music.

Cambridge International Pre-U Certificate - Principal

M2,M3,P1

Including M3 in Music. If no Music Grade 5 Theory ABRSM, LCM, Trinity or Rockschool may be accepted in place of A level music.

Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Certificate (first teaching from September 2016)

M

and A Level grades BC including Music. Music alternative must be provided if not studying A Level Music

A level

B,C,C

Including Music or Music Technology. Grade 5 Theory ABRSM, LCM, Trinity or Rockschool may be accepted in place of A level music.

WJEC Level 3 Advanced Skills Baccalaureate Wales

B

plus two A levels grades CC including Music or Grade C plus two A levels grades BC including Music. If no Music Grade 5 Theory ABRSM, LCM, Trinity or Rockschool may be accepted in place of A level music.

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