Music at Wolfson
The Cambridge Music Tripos will deepen your understanding of music and its historical and cultural context, and help you gain fundamental skills in writing and analysing music. The core of the course involves studies in history, analysis and compositional techniques.
You can find further information about studying Music on on the University's course . Detailed information is also available on the Faculty's Prospective Undergraduates .
What are we looking for?
Applicants should be acquainted with at least some of the standard repertory and have experience of writing about music. You are likely to have a good musical ear, some facility at the keyboard, and some proficiency in harmony and counterpoint.
Musicians arrive for interview with a very wide range of skills and interests. If you see yourself primarily as a performer it is important that you begin to engage with the context of the works that you play – the historical context in which they were composed, the discipline of analysis that will enable you to understand their structure and content better, or the performance history associated with them. If your musical interest is primarily academic (which is more unusual) you will need to gain some basic composition skills in traditional areas – the harmonisation of Bach chorales, the completion of two-part keyboard pieces, or the completion of string quartet extracts make good starting points.
Whatever your particular interests and skills, it is important that you learn to study independently; you will benefit most from the course in Cambridge if you are able to pursue your own lines of enquiry and interests.
Entry Requirements
Please consult the University's for further information.
Applications
Please consult our Applying page regarding the application process (deadlines, written work, assessments, interviews, etc). You may also wish to consult the website.
You can also find useful information on our Application FAQs page.