B.A. History of Art & History of Music
Bachelor's degree
In Edinburgh
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Bachelor's degree
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Edinburgh (Scotland)
The study of History of Art and History of Music at the University of Edinburgh aims to equip students with an understanding of the formal qualities and theoretical frameworks of music, art and architecture and their relationships to the wider cultural, social, economic, technological and political circumstances in which musical and artistic works were created.
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Subjects
- Music
- Art
- Art History
- Politics
- Painting
Course programme
You will study History of Art 1, which covers the period from the fall of the Roman Empire until the end of the Counter-Reformation. This will include non-Western material. You will also study Music 1a, Music in Social Contexts, and Music 1b, Music and Technologies. You will also choose an option course from another subject area.
Year 2You will study History of Art 2, which begins with the 18th century and continues to the present day. You will also study Music 2a, Music from the Middle Ages to Viennese Classicism, and Music 2b, Music and Ideas from Romanticism to the Late 20th Century.
Year 3You will take a selection of History of Art and History of Music courses, and will also complete a written project in History of Art, and a Music Research Methods course. Study abroad is possible in Year 3.
Year 4You will select courses that build on your subject choices in third year. You will also write a dissertation in either History of Art or Music.
Courses include:
- Sinners, Saints and Seers: Scottish, Irish and English art from 600-900
- Rome: From Imperial Capital to Holy City, c. 300-1300
- The Detailed Imagination: Netherlandish Painting in the Age of Jan van Eyck
- Caravaggio, 'the man who came to destroy painting,?
- How to Make Italian Renaissance Art: Media, Methods and Materials in Theory and Practice 1400-1550
- Antiquity Recovered: Imag(in)ing Pompeii and Herculaneum
- Golden Age Spain: Art, Politics and Religion
- Miniatures, frescoes, icons: the figural arts in the Islamic world (7th-15th century)
- Picturing Authority: Art and Politics at the Tudor and Stuart Courts
- The Rise of the Aesthetic: Art, Nature and the Ideal
- The Italian Renaissance Villa
- Scottish Country House, 1660-1800
- Architecture in Scotland before 1650
- Europe 1900: Nationalism and Decadence at the Fin-De-Siecle
- Scottish Art in the Age of Change 1945-2000
- Modern Art in Shanghai, 1840-1930
- City as a Work of Art: Western Urbanism 1960 to the Present Day
- Fractures: The Origin, Development and Influence of Cubist Painting
- Victorian Architecture: Themes and Ideas 1840-1914
- Architecture of the Russian and Soviet Avant-Gardes
- German Architecture in the Twentieth Century
- Histories and theories of photography
- Sexual Politics and the Image
- Film Music to 1950
- History of Instruments
- Psychology of Music
- Special History in Music: Bach's Instrumental Music
- Special History in Music: Music in Christian Worship
- Music and State Socialism in the Twentieth Century
- Special History in Music: Arnold Schoenberg and the Emancipation of Music
B.A. History of Art & History of Music