MA Music (Musicology)
Goldsmiths, University of London
Key Information
Campus location
London, United Kingdom
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
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Pace
Full time, Part time
Tuition fees
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Introduction
MA Music (Musicology)
The Musicology pathway in the MA Music programme qualifies graduates to embark upon their own research. While honing specialist skills, this pathway teaches students bold approaches to music as a practice and an academic discipline.
Taking up current debates and formative ideas, the Musicology pathway prepares students for advanced-level teaching, research, music editing, criticism, broadcasting, librarianship or historically aware performance. Rigorous training, for instance in working with primary sources, is combined with a radical interrogation of musicologys future in the twenty-first century.
Two compulsory options deliver fundamental knowledge, and you choose two options from those offered across MA and MMus pathways. The knowledge acquired from your coursework underpins your dissertation, supervised throughout the year in one-to-one tutorials with a leading academic.
Private tours to archives and other relevant institutions in and around London complement onsite teaching.
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
Several scholarship options are available. Please check the university website for more information.
Curriculum
Compulsory modules
- Advanced Music Studies
- Sources and Resources in the Digital Age
Option modules
- Analysing Contemporary Music: From Serialism to Spectral Noise
- Contemporary Ethnomusicology
- Contemporary Music: Practices and Debates
- Critical Musicology and Popular Music
- Ethnographic Film and Music Research
- Music Management
- New Directions in Popular Music Research
- Performance as Research (Ethnomusicology)
- Popular Music and its Critics
- Research through Musical Performance
- Sound Agendas
- Philosophies of Music
- Dissertation
- MA Music Dissertation
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
The programme is designed to provide preparation for those who wish to be involved in teaching, editorial work, journalistic criticism, lecturing, research at MPhil/PhD level, broadcasting, librarianship, or historically aware performance.
English Language Requirements
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