Rhythmic Music Education (IM)

The BMus (Rythmic Music Education IM) degree (also called IM) at The Royal Academy of Music, Aalborg, is a 3-year study course (180 ECTS credits) in which students acquire knowledge, skills, and qualifications to become working musicians and music teachers. With its starting-point in their own musicianship students are introduced to a broad range of subjects and projects that lead to individual choices for further studies and a future career. The degree course is built on more or less individual elements as well as a more general part, common to all the branches of study at the Academy.

The Course Structure

The course structure is based on more or less individual subject modules, plus more general courses common to all lines of study.

The Course Subjects

The course subjects are divided into the following fields:

• Main study area: Subjects where students are practising musicians plus subjects that support this aspect
• Teaching skills: Subjects where students communicate and teach music plus subjects that support this aspect
• General studies: Elementary subjects, obligatory for all students
• Entrepreneurial studies: Subjects and projects where students acquire initiative skills, manage dynamic processes, and acquire tools to further their careers
• Bachelor project: In addition to guidance on their project, students are prepared through project-related studies

The most important subject in the main area is main instrument/singing and in the pedagogical area is direction. These 2 units can be combined in the following 3 ways:

• Main instrument/singing + direction
• Main instrument/singing + main instrument/singing (2 different instruments or 1 instrument + singing)
• Direction + Direction

Under Direction the following are offered:

• Ensemble direction
• Choir direction
• Direction of song, play and movement (SSB)
• Direction of children’s music

One module of the main area is the so-called FLEX subject, an optional module with an optional content. The study module can be used in a study group together with fellow students with similar interests within a topic relevant for music; or for extra teaching in the main instrument with your own or another teacher; or for participation in a study course offered elsewhere at the academy; or for solo classes in a related secondary instrument – or for something else.

The various elements in the course are credited with ECTS points based on an assessment of the workload involved in the subjects.