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Music

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

Music at Cambridge covers many exciting topics, including history, analysis, composition, performance, ethnomusicology, music and science, popular music studies and notation studies.

Learn new approaches to thinking about music across styles and genres and develop your skills in critical thinking, analysis, performance, and composition.

Ways to study this course

Campuses

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

Study options

  • BA (Hons) • Full-time • 3 Years

Start dates

  • 10/2026

Application codes

Course code:
W300
Institution code:
C05

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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 .
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  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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