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Music

  • 1 Study option
  • Undergraduate
29 Campuses
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2025-20262026-2027
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Course summary

Our course covers a broad range of music, as well as a great variety of ways of thinking about and understanding music, ranging from medieval plainchant to the blues, and from advanced analysis to the study of music and science. It has a strong academic component, particularly focusing on history, analysis, composition and performance, but also offers a range of other topics.

Ways to study this course

Campuses

  • Sidney Sussex
  • Peterhouse
  • Clare
  • Open application
  • Pembroke
  • Fitzwilliam
  • Christ's
  • Trinity Hall
  • Selwyn
  • Magdalene
  • Wolfson
  • Jesus
  • Corpus Christi
  • Newnham
  • St John's
  • Emmanuel
  • Gonville & Caius
  • King's
  • Robinson
  • Homerton
  • Hughes Hall
  • St Catharine's
  • Trinity
  • Queens'
  • St Edmund's
  • Downing
  • Churchill
  • Murray Edwards
  • Girton

Study options

  • BA (Hons) • Full-time • 3 Years

Start dates

  • 10/2025

Application codes

Course code:
W300
Institution code:
C05

University of Cambridge has participated in the Teaching Excellence Framework. These ratings were awarded in 2023, for four years.

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Application codes

Course code:
W300
Institution code:
C05

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Historical entry grades data BETA

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Date range:
2022-2024

Grades held by accepted students

For University of Cambridge, the top and bottom 5% of student grades have been removed from these calculations. This change helps to remove any extraordinary circumstances that could impact the data. Learn more here .
A*A*A* Most common
  1. A*A*A*
  2. Highest grades
  3. AAA
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Offer rate for UK school & college leavers

57% Students aged 17/18 who applied to this course were offered a place.

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