Music Research

PhD

In London

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    PhD

  • Location

    London

Overview
REF rankings 2014: 100% of deparartment's research has been rated as having an outstanding (4*) and considerable impact (3*). The REF assesses the quality of research taking place between 2008 and 2013 in UK higher education institutions. Overall, 78% of the unit’s research was deemed of being world-leading (4*) or internationally excellent (3*) standard in terms of originality, significance and rigour.
Current number of academic staff: 16.
Current number of research students: 40 FT and 12 PT.
Recent publications:
Written on Skin (George Benjamin)
The Sense of Sound: Musical Meaning in France, 1260-1330 (Emma Dillon)
Contemporary Carioca: Technologies of Mixing in a Brazilian Music Scene (Frederick Moehn)
The Changing Sound of Music (Daniel Leech-Wilkinson)
Concerto for piano and twelve players (Rob Keeley)
A History of Opera (Roger Parker)
Of gold and shadows (Silvina Milstein)
Of gold and shadows (Silvina Milstein)
The Republic of Love: Cultural Intimacy in Turkish Popular Music (Martin Stokes).
Histories of Heinrich Schütz (Bettina Varwig)
Britten’s Unquiet Pasts: Sound and Memory in Postwar Reconstruction (Heather Wiebe)
Sovereign Feminine: Music and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Germany (Matthew Head)
Current research projects: ERC project Music in London 1800-1851.
Joint PhDs available: Exciting opportunities exist to gain a joint PhD with Hong Kong University or with King's own Department of Digital Humanities.
Our Department forms part of the London Arts and Humanities Partnership (LAHP), which is now open for applications for AHRC studentships (

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Location

Start date

London
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Strand, WC2R 2LS

Start date

On request

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Subjects

  • Staff
  • Composition
  • Sound
  • University
  • Joint
  • Music
  • Humanities
  • Musical
  • Musicology

Course programme

The department has an international reputation for research in Musicology, Ethnomusicology and Composition. We are particularly strong in Western music from the 12th century to the present day, jazz, opera, performance studies, and the musical cultures of the Middle East, South Asia and Brazil. In addition to PhD programmes in Musicology (thesis of max. 100,000 words) and in Composition (portfolio with technical commentary), we offer an innovative Performance-Research programme in which performance materials (e.g. concerts, recordings) combine with a 50,000-word thesis to explore a significant and clearly-defined research question.

Prospective students are welcome to contact any member of staff whose field of research interests them. Alternatively, Musicology and Ethnomusicology applicants may discuss their plans with the PhD Coordinator Roger Parker or the Ethnomusicology Coordinator Martin Stokes. Composers are encouraged in the first instance to contact Professor Silvina Milstein who coordinates the Composition programme.

Joint PhD Opportunities

The joint PhD in Music affords students the opportunity to work with leaders in the fields of Ethnomusicology, Musicology and Composition. We invite applications on any area of research represented by faculty interests. We also draw your attention to areas of overlapping interest among faculty in the departments of Music at King's College London and University of Hong Kong: composition; 19th-century music studies; music and film. Students in the joint PhD programme will benefit from one-to-one supervision with a number of scholars working in their field. The programme also offers them access to the lively intellectual communities in these two world-class centres for music research, as well as to all the cultural riches on offer in the cities of London and Hong Kong.

Music Research

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