Overview
The Bachelor of Music prepares musicians to become proactive leaders in their profession, equipping them with the needed skills to thrive in the music and arts industry. Using our core disciplines, this course is for musicians and vocalists looking to build their skills in performance, musicianship, musicology, composition, and business fundamentals, as well as furthering their skills in elective and technology subjects.
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Unlike other Bachelor of Music courses, study at your own pace from anywhere in the world with our industry leading, fully accredited online Bachelors degree.
entry & admissions
Specialisation in Instrumental/Vocal Performance
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Identity Document
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Performance Document : Graded Examination Instrumental Certificate (Highest Level Only) e.g. Grade 8; ATCL etc AND Recorded Audition of 6 - 9 minutes demonstrating at least three contrasting styles. These may be parts of works.
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Music Theory Document : Graded Examination Theory Certificate (Highest Level Only) OR Guild Theory test 1&2
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Education Document: High School Certificate OR Statement about education undertaken
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For non- English speaking country: IELTS or Equivalent English Certificate OR A statement about English competency, including information about previous English study or work usage.
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Recognition of Prior Learning:
Already completed tertiary studies in music or another discipline? We can assess this previous studies for RPL and reduce the duration of your degree.
RPL ensures that you don’t need to repeat units of study that you have already completed elsewhere as part of an accredited program or part of your Professional Experience.
Up to 50% of the degree can be awarded as RPL. We also give recognition to a wide range of studies including Graded Public Exams e.g. AGME, IPVAEB, ABRSM, Trinity College London, vocational studies and other tertiary music studies.
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Fill out our online application form to get started!
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Course Content
Student are informed by music from the past; have the capacity to work creatively, musically and intelligently with the realities of professional practices in the present; and have the facility to respond quickly and meaningfully to the innovations and changes that will characterise their careers in music in the future.
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Graduates will be prepared fully for further higher study or a range of employment contexts.
The AGME aims to be a leader in distance music higher education. It delivers its program to students engaged in on-campus, fully-distance and blended mode of study. This flexible course of study equips graduates with a strong foundation for a lifetime of learning and music making.
AGME has the resources, staff expertise and facilities to create dedicated musicians,
developing and preparing them for entry into a rewarding fulfilling life-time career.
The first year of the program provides a broad introductory level of knowledge and
awareness of music performance, theory and history. The second year builds an advanced framework of knowledge and skills. The final year enables students to choose a specialisation and prepare for entry on a professional basis to workforce engagement and further study.
Course structure
Course Disciplines
Performance
Further enhances students' musical ability through our instrumental teachers as well as giving students the opportunity to perform.
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Includes: Instrumental Lessons, Performance Classes
Musicianship
Equips students with fundamentals of musical construction in the western canon.
Includes: Theory, Aural, Harmony, Composition
Business Fundamentals
Prepare the student to communicate music effectively and to pass on the knowledge and pratise of music.
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Includes: Entrepreneurship, Music Business Finances
Musicology
Explore past and present musical developments and interactions as you discover the history of music and how it applies today.
Includes: Music History, Collaborative Music Studies
Modern Music Creation
Equips students with the fundamentals of technologies used in the 21st Century to create their own compositional expression and exploration.
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Includes: Music Technology, Composition
Learn from the best
prof Andreas Boyde
Professor of Piano Performance
Andreas was born in Oschatz, Germany and He studied in London at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.
His solo recitals in renowned concert venues and appearances as soloist with such orchestras as the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Prague Radio Orchestra, the Miami Symphony Orchestra, the Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra, the Berliner Symphoniker and the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra have secured Boyde’s reputation as an esteemed performing artist. The Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt appointed Andreas Boyde Artist in Residence for the season 2018/19
Paul watt
Professor of Musicology
Paul Watt is Professor of Musicology at the Australian Guild of Music, Melbourne and Adjunct Professor of Music in the University of Adelaide. His research crosses a range of fields including nineteenth-century music, musical biography and criticism, popular music, intellectual history and religious and literary studies. He is the author of two books, Ernest Newman: A Critical Biography (2017) and The Regulation and Reform of Music Criticism in Nineteenth-Century England (2018). His articles have been published in a variety of journals including Music & Letters, the Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle, 19th-century Music and the Yale Journal of Music & Religion. He is co-editor of a number of books including The Oxford Handbook of Music and Intellectual Culture in the Nineteenth Century (with Sarah Collins and Michael Allis, 2020) and the award-winning book, Joseph Holbrooke: Composer, Critic and Musical Patriot (with Anne-Marie Forbes, 2017).
Paul is also the Director of the Street Music Research Unit. The Unit is affiliated with The Busking Project, a non-profit organisation in Berlin, that promotes busking and street performance around the world. Paul also serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Music Research Online, Global Nineteenth-Century Studies, the RMA Research Chronicle and ‘Studies in British Musical Cultures’, a book series published by Clemson University Press.
Simone Maurer
Lecturer - Musicianship & Performance
Having joined the Guild in 2020, Simone lectures for Musicianship, and is Unit Coordinator and lecturer for Music Performance - in addition to providing governance support for various committees. Simone is a classically trained flautist, music performance and psychology researcher, and a Certified Movement Analyst. Simone has a Bachelor of Music with First Class Honours in advanced flute performance from the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, where she was a Griffith Honours College scholar and was awarded both a University and Music medal. She completed an MPhil in Music Studies (Performance) at the University of Cambridge (UK) whilst receiving flute lessons from Michael Cox (Royal Academy of Music, London). Simone is currently a final year PhD researcher in flute performance and music psychology (specifically investigating embodied cognition of performers) at the University of Melbourne, for which she received an Endeavour Postgraduate Scholarship from the Australian Government to study in NYC for one year. This study culminated in a Certification in Laban Movement Analysis from the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies and international registration as a somatic movement educator and therapist. Simone also teaches aural musicianship, music psychology, and dance theory at the University of Melbourne.
International Students
Our completely online delivery method means that our students can study with us from anywhere in the world!
Students will need to meet required audition & academic standards and have an IELTS score of band 6.0 (5.5 considered with extra assessment).
The best part is that your instrumental tuition can be delivered in person in your home country or by LIVE-Online real-time teaching.
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