Bachelor of Music Theatre 

In Performance Module 1, you’ll develop your vocal skills through weekly private lessons and a Performance Practice class spanning masterclasses, workshops, and seminars. Alongside the practical work, you’ll examine the cultural contexts of your repertoire and develop an informed approach to performance decisions across relevant styles and genres, building reflective practice as a performer throughout. 

In this industry-focused collaborative project, you’ll apply your theoretical and technical knowledge in a practical context, working with peers within or across disciplinary boundaries to design and produce a musical work. Weekly lectures and group tutorials scaffold the process, with reflective blog entries used to evaluate your development throughout. 

Introduction to Higher Education Studies builds the academic skills you’ll draw on across your entire degree. You’lldevelop your written and spoken communication at a tertiary level, covering essay technique, referencing, and scholarly research practices, alongside a grounding in academic integrity and self-directed learning. Core classes are complemented by elective modules focused on specific technologies relevant to your field of study. 

In this industry-focused collaborative project, you’ll apply your theoretical and technical knowledge in a practical context, working with peers within or across disciplinary boundaries to design and produce a musical work. Weekly lectures and group tutorials scaffold the process, with reflective blog entries used to evaluate your development throughout. 

This unit gives you a broad grounding in the music business, examining the history, function, and key activities of its numerous sectors. Importantly, it uses historical analysis as a springboard for forward-looking thinking, preparing you to understand and respond to an industry that continues to evolve. 

This foundational unit introduces you to the core materials of music, including pitch, rhythm, and harmony, and is required for all BMus students, with the option also open to music business students looking to develop core musical skills. You’ll examine diverse musical styles to understand how these elements are structured and notated across different genres, develop your skills in reading music notation, and gain an introductory overview of musicology as an academic discipline and its approaches to music analysis. 

Extending from Performance Module 1, this unit deepens your technical and expressive fluency through continued weekly private lessons and a Performance Practice class comprising masterclasses, workshops, and seminars. You’ll continue to examine the cultural contexts of your repertoire and refine your understanding of stylistically informed performance decisions, while maintaining the reflective practice you began developing in Module 1. As the units progress, you’ll also build the habit of reflective practice, developing your capacity to critically examine your own learning and growth as an actor.

Building directly on BMAS1, this unit develops your musicianship skills, aural appreciation, and understanding of musical structures further. Online modules let you explore notation principles across genres and build arrangement skills relevant to your own musical interests, while classes provide opportunities to hear and evaluate diverse musical arrangements, laying the groundwork for subsequent music scholarship. 

Building on the foundational acting work of BMMAC1 and BMMAC2, Performance Skills 1 develops your skills as a singing-actor through individual lessons, masterclasses, workshops, and seminars. You’ll apply the core principles of contemporary acting technique within a socio-cultural context while deepening your understanding of your vocal instrument and its stylistic application to Musical Theatre repertoire. Reflective practice remains central, with ongoing attention to your development as a singing-actor throughout the unit. 

This unit introduces you to the history, repertoire, and analysis of musical theatre, building your understanding of the genre’s sub-categories and the social, historical, artistic, and political contexts that shaped them. Through sequenced readings, listening assignments, and recorded productions, you’ll develop the analytical grounding needed for a deeper engagement with Music Theatre works. 

The first in a series of three dance units, this unit develops your skills in dance as a tool of expression, building coordination, rhythm, impulse, and spontaneity. You’ll explore, research, and perform student-led choreography stylistically specific to Music Theatre genres at a paraprofessional level, developing your dance vocabulary through reflection on both your choreographic process and the resulting work. 

Augmenting BMTPS2 Performance Skills: The Singing Actor 2, this unit develops the fundamentals of vocal and physical technique through masterclasses, workshops, and seminars, with an integrated approach to understanding the anatomy, safety, and management of your voice and body in performance. A central focus is introducing you to the power of your own vocal and physical identity as a singing-actor, with reflective practice woven throughout. 

This industry-focused collaborative project centres on the formal rehearsal process for a public season of a Music Theatre work under professional direction, encompassing integrated singing-acting, ensemble singing, and ensemble dancing. Working in a para-professional context, you’ll apply the skills and techniques developed in your specialisation units, rehearsing in accordance with professional protocols with an emphasis on collaboration, ensemble building, and the discipline of the singing-actor. Weekly progress feedback and tutorial sessions support your work throughout. 

Augmenting BMTPS2 Performance Skills: The Singing Actor 2, this unit develops the fundamentals of vocal and physical technique through masterclasses, workshops, and seminars, with an integrated approach to understanding the anatomy, safety, and management of your voice and body in performance. A central focus is introducing you to the power of your own vocal and physical identity as a singing-actor, with reflective practice woven throughout. 

Building on BMTPS2, this unit returns to an intensive studio-based format, developing your skills as a singing-actor through individual lessons, masterclasses, workshops, and seminars. You’ll apply the core principles of contemporary acting technique within a socio-cultural context while consolidating your understanding and application of your vocal instrument across Musical Theatre repertoire. Reflective practice remains central to your development throughout the unit. 

The second in the series of three dance units, this unit continues to develop your skills in dance as a tool of expression, with a sustained focus on coordination, rhythm, impulse, and spontaneity. You’ll explore, research, and perform student-led choreography stylistically specific to Music Theatre genres at a paraprofessional level, developing your dance vocabulary through reflection on both your choreographic process and the resulting work. 

Building on BMTPS3, this unit sharpens your focus as a singing-actor through individual lessons, masterclasses, workshops, and seminars, with particular attention to stylistic acting techniques and their sociohistorical-cultural context. You’ll consolidate your command of your vocal instrument through increasingly nuanced stylistic interpretation of Musical Theatre repertoire, while continuing to interrogate and refine your personalised approach to acting. Reflective practice continues as an integral part of your development throughout the unit. 

The second of two Music Theatre scholarship units, this unit equips you with the analytical tools to interrogate the dramaturgical, musical, and choreographic structures of jukebox musicals and rock operas within their socio-political, cultural, and historical contexts. Applying these tools across a series of case studies, you’ll scrutinise the overall conception of works and their currency for contemporary audiences, bringing questions of cultural legacy, ethics, and representation to the fore. 

The final unit in the three-unit dance series, this unit consolidates your skills in dance as a tool of expression, affirming your coordination and rhythm and solidifying your impulse and spontaneity work. You’ll explore, research, and perform student-led choreography stylistically specific to Music Theatre genres, now at a professional level, developing your dance vocabulary through critique and reflection on both your choreographic process and the resulting work. 

Augmenting BMTPS5 Performance Skills: The Singing Actor 5, this unit deepens your vocal and movement skills and techniques as they apply to poetic and stylistic works, building on the anatomical and performance safety grounding established in Movement and Voice 1. Learning takes place through masterclasses, workshops, and seminars, with a focus on affirming your integrated understanding of voice and body in performance. 

Continuing the industry-focused collaborative work of BMTCP3, this unit places you back in the formal rehearsal process for a public season of a Music Theatre work under professional direction, drawing on integrated singing-acting, ensemble singing, and ensemble dancing. You’ll apply the skills developed in your specialisation units within a para-professional context, rehearsing to professional protocols with a sustained focus on collaboration, ensemble building, and the singing-actor’s discipline. Weekly progress feedback and tutorial sessions scaffold your development throughout. 

Augmenting BMTPS5 Performance Skills: The Singing Actor 5, this unit deepens your vocal and movement skills and techniques as they apply to poetic and stylistic works, building on the anatomical and performance safety grounding established in Movement and Voice 1. Learning takes place through masterclasses, workshops, and seminars, with a focus on affirming your integrated understanding of voice and body in performance. 

This Capstone unit draws on everything you’ve developed across the Bachelor of Music Theatre, bringing your singing, acting, and dancing skills together in a collaborative ensemble production of original and/or extant Music Theatre works for public performance. Professional mentors guide the creation and rehearsal process, which may include an intensive seminar series alongside integrated singing-acting, ensemble singing, and ensemble dancing. You’ll conclude by reflecting on your growth as a singing-actor across the full arc of rehearsal and performance.