BPA Music (4 years)Our BPA is a comprehensive educational program that nurtures both the practice and the performance aspect of music. It is an amalgamation of various musical practices, critical thinking; contemporary theory with performance, composing, administration and production experience, that will help the students launch their professional career with a distinctive approach.
This undergraduate course will prepare the student with a strong base in the theories of performance, the nuances of the classical, folk and contemporary music, the rudiments of production and presentation along with rigorous insight into the global music field. They will be exposed to the practical and theoretical practices of performing arts across cultures.
Our faculty consists of leading musicians and allied arts experts who encourage students to think about dance beyond performance and focus on music-making in a creative environment. Students learn to support their practice with research in music arranging, composing, performance, therapy, pedagogy, art administration, and study music in its historical, social, cultural and digital contexts.
Students get a chance to work closely with experienced teachers, professional musicians and composers in classes with live/recorded music. Moreover, they can refine their practice in well-equipped studio. As an extension of the learning received during the current crisis, the students will also learn the use and control of digital media to promote and present the performing arts.
This course aims to build and expand the knowledge of music through its physical, intellectual, and exploratory dimensions. Moreover, it will help students understand themselves and their unique artistic voice by emphasizing practical and theoretical lessons. In turn, this will enable students to make informed choices as holistic artists.
CareersThis program creates innumerable feasible career options by empowering a young aspirant to become independent, thoughtful musician with the necessary skills to emerge as performer, teacher, composer, arranger, content writer, administrator, music therapist, artistic director, researcher, resource person, author or consultant.
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Core | |||||||
Basic Performance Techniques: Hindustani and Western Classical Music -I | Basic Performance Techniques: Hindustani and Western Classical Music –II | Raga, Rhythm & World Music Studies -I | Raga, Rhythm & World Music Studies –II | Raga, Rhythm & World Music Studies -III | Raga, Rhythm & World Music Studies –IV | Stage performance and Viva-Voce | Stage performance and Viva-Voce |
Creative Synergies | Study of musical acoustics and its implications in Music. | Contemporary Percussion- I | Contemporary Percussion- II | Music Composing and Arranging- I | Music Composing and Arranging- II | Stage performance and Viva-Voce | Stage performance and Viva-Voce |
Solo Percussion-I | Solo Percussion-II | Music Therapy- I | Music Therapy- II | Orchestra and Band Percussion-I | Orchestra and Band Percussion -II | Personal Portfolio Development | Professional Portfolio (Working with Professional Artist as a Intern) |
Non - Core | |||||||
Introduction to Indian Performing Arts | Selected Folk Music Traditions | Music as an accompaniment to other arts | Miscellaneous contextual presence of the Ragas | New Media and Performance Practice I | New Media and Performance Practice II | ||
Essentials | |||||||
Theory I- Fundamental Study of Hindustani Music | Theory II -Study of History of Music and Global Perspective | Theory III- Study of Important Texts for Indian and International Music | Notation, Research and Documentation-I | Music in Education-I | Music in Education- II | Project Work | |
Music, Sustainability and the Environment I | Music, Sustainability and the Environment II | Reading and Writing Music | Notation, Research and Documentation-II | Arts Administration I | Arts Administration II | Project Work | |
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Common Elective | Common Elective | Common Elective | Common Elective |