The NWU School of Music offers a variety of music subjects on undergraduate and postgraduate level, either as major study areas or supplementary/elective modules.

• African Music
• Arts Management
• Aural Training
• Community Music
• Composition
• Introduction to Music Research
• Keyboard Skills
• Methodology
• Music Education
• Music Notation & Music Theory
• Musicology
• Music Technology
• Performance:
  • Brass
  • Choral Conducting
  • Classical guitar
  • Orchestral percussion
  • Piano
  • Singing/Vocal Studies
  • Strings
  • Woodwinds
• Research Methodology