ABSTRACT
The education of students in the creative disciplines is playing an increasing part in the life of universities. Art, design and music courses account for around 15-20 per cent of modern university provision. This expansion is partly the result of the broadening portfolio of design courses currently available and also the trend towards courses which are of a vocational nature. While music and architecture are traditional subjects taught, these often form the disciplinary core for the development of new courses in performance art, theatre design, multi-media and creative imaging. The music studio too has its own characteristics which have to be met if education in the subject is to flourish. Performance is the culmination of music education yet it requires hours of painstaking practice. The Faculty of Design at Manchester's Salford University started its life as the school of electronics, engineering and industrial design.
