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Bachelor of Music (Creative Practice)

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Want to take your talent to its fullest potential? Enhance your creative voice with a comprehensive program offering opportunities in music composition, song writing, recording and production.Become a dynamic and versatile artist. Leave your mark on an expanding global industry.

Key details

Degree Type
Bachelor
Duration
3 years full-time
Course Code
354641, 002801F
Intake Months
Jul, Feb
International Fees
$40,500 per year / $121,500 total

About this course

Ignite your sound

Want to take your talent to its fullest potential? Enhance your creative voice with a comprehensive program offering opportunities in music composition, song writing, recording and production.

Become a dynamic and versatile artist. Leave your mark on an expanding global industry.

Study locations

North Terrace

North Terrace Campus

What you will learn

Our Creative Practice degree equips you with the knowledge and skills needed to excel as a music industry professional. You will:

  • produce your own original music and gain industry experience with regular recording and performance
  • have 24/7 access to cutting-edge facilities, including production studios, recording rooms and digital audio laboratories
  • learn an extensive range of stylistic approaches throughout arts history and contemporary sound
  • explore your interests in creating music for film, computer game audio, sound engineering, and live sound design
  • build a strong, adaptable range of skills in musical structure, theory and composition
  • receive mentorship and business coaching from industry professionals.

Career pathways

You might compose award-winning scores for film or computer games. You could fill the audiences for prestigious concert halls, original musical theatre, or major music festivals. Perhaps you'll work behind the scenes, recording and producing with an exciting line-up of fresh artists.




  • Understand how music is made, its history and how it affects us
  • Study at Australia's most distinguished tertiary music school
  • Compose your creative future with academic mentors and award-winning staff

Course structure

The Bachelor of Music provides the intensive professional training required for employment in the music industry. It seeks to provide a challenging and stimulating learning environment in which all students may achieve their full potential in their chosen major. It aims to develop educated, flexible and imaginative graduates who possess the knowledge and skills required to function effectively in a wide range of professional contexts. The program provides students with the option to undertake a major in either Classical Performance, Jazz Performance, Music Education or Creative Practice (a broad area of study that includes courses in music composition, popular music and sonic arts).

The Bachelor of Music is an AQF Level 7 qualification with a standard full-time duration of 3 years.

The Calendar is a comprehensive handbook of the University's academic program rules.