Music

The UWCSEA Music course is based on the concept that music is an essential part of the human experience that exists in every known culture. This programme is designed around students’ personal context and individual musical expression, to build a detailed understanding of the multitude of roles that music plays in a global context.

True artists are independent, critical thinkers and the potential for profound understanding is never limited by style, genre, culture or the choice of musical tools. Therefore, this course keeps the practical and personal experience at the centre.

• Engage with music through performance, creation and research.

• Develop independent creative voices by encouraging students to centre the course around the music that matters to them.

• Explore music as a political tool that expresses values and feeds into peace building, sustainability and openness.

• Keep the practical experience at the centre and make sure theory and analysis supports the creation of music rather than serving as a separate skill set.

• Students develop unique and individual musical voices

• Students increase their confidence in engaging with unfamiliar music

• Students understand musical contexts with complexity and nuance

• Students become composers, performers and analytical musicians while staying true to their passion and artistic identity

• Students understand the responsibilities of musicians to celebrate diversity, encourage representation, understand a variety of musical and cultural perspectives and use music to create positive change

• Students embrace, understand and apply the traditional (and universal) systems and processes of music making while developing the confidence to experiment with conventions and take informed risks.