CertHE Music Courses

You'll develop and advance your musical, technical and creative abilities. Evolving your performance and composition skills, you’ll also examine key cultural concepts around music, learn to mix and record, and have the chance to collaborate with your peers. 

Modules could include:

Musicianship & Performance

This module aims to develop your skills in performance practices and musicianship. You will explore the biomechanical, physiological and psychological demands of musical performance while developing your listening skills, aural skills, creative interpretation and stylistic understanding of music. 

Composition & Creativity

This module offers you a chance to try your hand at three contrasting creative scenarios, each supported by analysis of current and past examples. In doing so, you will develop your analytical, compositional and creative skills. 

Expanding Musical Vocabularies 

This module will introduce you to a range of musical terms, theories, techniques and notations before helping you to apply them in creative and practical scenarios. 

Specialist Music Practice 1 

In this module, you will increase your knowledge and skills in your area of specialist practice and develop co-creation, collaborative and communication skills through collective music making and studio practice sessions.

Music and Sound: Context and Cultures 

You’ll examine key concepts and debates in music and sounds studies whilst thinking critically about the relationship between music, sound, and culture. 

Studiocraft 

You'll learn to record, edit, mix and master audio in a recording studio environment using microphones, audio interfaces, mixing desks and digital audio workstations (DAWs). 

With technical and artistic guidance from staff and specialists, you will become equipped with foundational knowledge, skills and experience in music and sound theory, music production, sound design and electronic music.  

You’ll receive small-group tuition to help you identify and work on your specialist creative practice, while gaining practical experience using industry-standard software and hardware tools and techniques. 

Modules could include: 

Designing Sound 

You’ll be immersed in the creative possibilities of sound design for different visual media, including film, TV, animation and games. Over the course of the module, you will be introduced to new concepts, techniques and workflows and encouraged to explore the ways in which audio can be sculpted to create new sonic forms. 

Electronic Music 

In this module you will develop a theoretical and practical understanding of contemporary electronic music tools, techniques and creative practices. 

Expanding Musical Vocabularies

This module will introduce you to a range of musical terms, theories, techniques and notations before helping you to apply them in creative and practical scenarios. 

Specialist Music Practice 1 

In this module, you will increase your knowledge and skills in your area of specialist practice and develop co-creation, collaborative and communication skills through collective music making and studio practice sessions. 

Music and Sound: Context and Cultures 

You’ll examine key concepts and debates in music and sounds studies whilst thinking critically about the relationship between music, sound, and culture.