COURSE OFFERED SPRING 2026
Teaching Institution: Royal College of Music, London
Faculty: Dr. Christina Guillaumier
Contact email: christina.guillaumier@rcm.ac.uk
Study Level: Undergraduate
Music and Words
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This online course builds on your skills as a communicator about music through writing and speaking. Practical workshops enable students to explore different styles of communicating about music, including descriptive, interpretative and evaluative examples. In this Global Conservatoire module you will study online alongside students from the College’s institutional partners.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
By the end of this course students will be able to:
- communicate about music confidently and persuasively through the spoken and written word in various genres;
- apply a range of communication approaches and skills which are pertinent to musical practitioners;
- investigate creative approaches to both the processes and products of writing and speaking;
- acquire a critical and discursive approach to speaking and writing about music
demonstrate an awareness of methods of combining printed, visual, recorded and live-performance materials into a short but coherent spoken presentation; - demonstrate a style of scripting distinct from printed material and/or development of strategies for communication