
Mark Thursby
Senior Lecturer in Popular Music
Popular Music (Top-Up) BA (Hons)
UCAS Code:
W342
Level:
Undergraduate
Duration:
Full Time: 1 year
Part Time: 2 years
Starting:
September
Fees UK:
Full Time 22/23: £9,250 Part Time 22/23: £1,500 (per 20 credits)
Fees International:
Full Time 22/23: £14,500
Location:
Waterside Campus, Development Hub
For questions regarding study and admissions please contact us:
study@northampton.ac.uk
0300 303 2772
This course is subject to validation for 2022 entry
Our Popular Music (Top-Up) BA (Hons) allows you to choose your own focus within popular music. Blend a mix of practical music-making, with more traditional academic studies, or learn something new.
Choose to produce your own EP, perform at gigs, analyse and critically reflect on your own practice, record other artists, write a dissertation, compose/produce music for media, understand music philosophy, and delve into music education.
With strong ties to both the local music scene and industry, as well as nationally, we offer you the chance to network with industry insiders and develop your own network of fledgling professionals.
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Senior Lecturer in Popular Music
A trained, versatile musician, pianist and composer-producer. Specialising in pattern recognition within music, analysis, composition-production, there is a mathemusic and technological aspect to his work. Having produced a number of radio programmes about music he has also written a chapter on the Audio Object for Routledge. A Ricordi Prize Winner for Best Composition and Schillinger Prize Winner, he’s worked with notable performers as well as collaborated with artists and film directors. His music has been performed in concerts and festivals in Britain, on BBC national radio and Resonance FM, as well as on the European continent and in Australia.