This is a really challenging course but also an enormously rewarding one. Studying A level Music provides students with the opportunity to really understand how music works both by making it and by analysing it. Students learn how Music in its many forms has evolved, and

Our A level courses are delivered by a well established, highly skilled team of subject specialists. We would be delighted to show you around the department, discuss course content, explain how we support students' learning  - in and beyond the classroom, and talk about the wider musical opportunities available at

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Vaughan Williams is probably one of the UK's best loved and best known composers. His musical language draws on the English choral tradition, the long standing craft of the art song, and the evocative compositional language of French Impressionism. 'On Wenlock Edge' (1909) is a deeply

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