Music: Advanced Performance

University of British Columbia

Canada, Vancouver

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University of British Columbia

Canada , Vancouver

Key Facts

Program Level

Bachelor

Study Type

Full Time

Delivery

On Campus

Application Fee

CAD 125

Campuses

Vancouver

Program Language

English

Start & Deadlines

Next Intake Deadlines15-May-2023

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Duration 4 year(s)

Tuition Fee

CAD 42,543 / year

Next Intake 15-May-2023

Music: Advanced Performance

About

You can study intense specialization in a single field.

Students admitted to the Bachelor of Music program may follow one of four streams: General Studies, Advanced Performance, Scholarship, or Composition. Every stream includes four years of private lessons in an instrument or voice, along with ensemble performance (4 years), music scholarship (3 years), and non-music electives (4 years). The distribution of required and elective courses, in Music and in other subjects, is different for each stream. If you can meet the highest standards of performing ability, you may select a Major in Advanced Performance. You can specialize in a standard orchestral instrument, opera, voice, piano, guitar, harpsichord, or organ.

Campus features

The School of Music offers cutting-edge performance facilities like the Gessler Multimedia Teaching Studio and the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, recently named one of the world's greatest concert halls.

Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

Study music theory and technology, musicianship, and more alongside four years of private instruction in piano, opera, a standard orchestral instrument, voice, guitar, harpsichord, or organ.

Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Year 4

MUSC 120 - History of Music I
An overview of Western music from antiquity through the Middle Ages and Renaissance, providing a framework for understanding musical styles and practices, and examining selected compositions in greater analytical and historical depth.
MUSC 119 - Introduction to Music Technology
Practical and theoretical training in technologies that support current artistic and academic practice, such as MIDI, podcasts/videocasts, websites, social media, and software for score notation, music education, and basic audio/video editing.
MUSC 105 - Aural Skills I
Sight singing; melodic and harmonic dictation; rhythm production; error detection; tuning; perception of harmony, form, and tonality; improvisation in set idioms. Restricted to B.Mus. students.
MUSC 193 - Music Performance (Major)
Private instruction, vocal or instrumental.
MUSC 100 - Principles of Musical Form
Fundamental materials and processes of music - rhythmic, melodic, textural and harmonic - and how they create small-scale structures in a variety of styles. Compositional and analytical applications.

MUSC 220 - History of Music III
The development of Western music from circa 1800 to circa 1900.
MUSC 200 - Chromatic Harmony and Voice Leading
Harmonic and linear functions of common chromatic chords; mixture; chords and progressions of linear origin; tonal plans. Compositional and analytical exercises.
MUSC 205 - Aural Skills III
Continuation of MUSC 106. Restricted to B.Mus. students.
MUSC 201 - Musical Forms
Study of various forms in tonal music and the rhythmic, melodic, textural, and harmonic processes that create them on small and large scales. Compositional and analytical exercises.
MUSC 207 - c Composition II
Continuation of MUSC 107.

MUSC 300 - Compositional and Analytical Approaches to Post-Tonal Music
Concepts essential to understanding and performing art music, since 1900, in which functional triadic harmony is absent or subsidiary to other musical processes. Detailed consideration of works of major composers up to the present, through analysis, composition, and musicianship exercises.
MUSC 333 - Accompanying on the Harpsichord I
Basic techniques and styles of continuo playing. Open to keyboard players with no previous harpsichord experience.
MUSC 336 - Opera Theatre Techniques I
Performance techniques associated with the musical theatre of various historical periods. Basic dance. Most operatic excerpts will be in English.
MUSC 394 - Music Performance (Major)
Private instruction, vocal or instrumental.
MUSC 349 - Keyboard Harmony and Transposition
Designed for the keyboard performance major and keyboard concentrator in General Studies.

MUSC 413 - Contemporary Art Music: Theory and Analysis
A technical approach to the diverse concert-music repertoire since 1950, including orchestral, chamber, solo, and electro-acoustic genres. Applicable theories of pitch and rhythm, with reference to composers' own writings.
MUSC 415 - Imagining Musical Performances
How performance and analysis engage the musical imagination, as complementary activities; how analytical observations can stimulate performance, and vice versa. Selected topics, with special emphasis on temporal factors.
MUSC 444 - Establishing a Career in Music
Best practices of the contemporary busines of music, focussing on understanding present market conditions, and on targeting specific opportunities through grant-writing, resumأ©s, press kits, publicity, recordings, and marketing. Restricted to fourth-year B.Mus. students.
MUSC 509 - c Advanced Orchestration and Arranging
MUSC 494 - Music Performance (Major)
Private instruction, vocal or instrumental.

Disciplines

School of Music

Requirements

Entry Requirements

Graduation from a university-preparatory program at a senior secondary school: General Secondary Education Certificate (Tawjihi). Certificates must be official. Photocopies are acceptable if certified by school principal, head, or counsellor. Notarized copies are not acceptable.

Career

A UBC education will introduce you to people and ideas from around the world, open doors to new opportunities, and take you places you never imagined. You'll graduate not only with expertise in your chosen field, but with the skills you need to continue growing, learning, and evolving with your career over time.

UBC stories

"I went to UBC to get the performance skills to perform the music I wanted to create in a professional manner. It also taught me that I didn't want a career in the typical classical musical world that most instrumentalists go to after graduation. I wanted to choose my own musical path."
Cris Derksen, Cello Performance Read the full story

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Fee Information

Tuition Fee

CAD 42,543

Application Fee

CAD 125

How to Apply

As you complete the online application, keep the following tips in mind:

Start early and take your time. Once you begin the application, you will be able to save it and return to it later – but only up until the deadline. Once you have submitted your application to UBC, you will not be able to edit it. Since the online application can sometimes time out if left open for too long, we recommend working on your personal profile questions outside of the application (where you can run them through a spell-checker) then copy and paste them into your application.
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Tell us your full academic history. It’s important to include all of the high schools, colleges, and/or universities you have attended. Don’t leave anything out!
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