Music

Department of Music

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Studying Music at Royal Holloway provides the opportunity to expand your knowledge of music from a variety of practical, historical, global and contemporary standpoints. You can develop your skills in performance, music history and theory, composition, world music and music technology, all within a framework that rewards serious intellectual engagement with various forms of music in the many spaces that it occupies in today's world.

Our nationally and internationally-renowned Music Department is one of the UK's largest. Our teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels has been consistently at the forefront of the discipline.

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We were rated top department in the UK in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise and awarded the highest grade of 5* in the two previous assessment exercises (1996 and 2001).  We were rated 5th in the 2010 Music Department rankings in both The Times and The Independent.

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