Musicology MA

Master

In Sheffield

£ 7,000 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    Sheffield

  • Duration

    1 Year

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Course themes can include gender, philosophy, culture and aesthetics, and may involve an examination of history, composition, performance and reception.
You will engage with how music is created, disseminated and received, via a range of methodologies and often through interaction with other disciplines.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Sheffield (South Yorkshire)
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Western Bank, S10 2TN

Start date

Different dates availableEnrolment now open

About this course

This course offers you the opportunity to engage with a range of specialist areas including Mozart, music of the classical period, Renaissance music, music and visual culture, eighteenth and nineteenth-century style, the concerto genre and the Broadway musical.

You'll need a 2:1 in music or a combined degree with a substantial music component.
Other qualifications may be acceptable depending on your background.

This programme is offered as a MA (180 credits).

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Subjects

  • Composition
  • Music
  • Musicology
  • Research Techniques
  • Critical Musicology
  • Music Studies
  • Music Psychology
  • Data Collection
  • Strategic Planning
  • Music Business
  • Staging Music

Course programme

Core Modules

(150 credits total)
  • MUS6000: Research Techniques
  • MUS6029: Critical Musicology
  • MUS6032: Topics in Musicology
  • MUS666: Interdisciplinary Music Studies
  • MUS626: Dissertation in Musicology
Optional Modules

(Students will take 30 credits from this group)
  • MUS615: Topics in Music Psychology
  • MUS617: Selected Topics in Music Psychology
  • MUS618: Qualitative Data Collection
  • MUS633: Performing World Music
  • MUS635: Special Study in Performance
  • MUS636: Strategic Planning for Music Business Clients
  • MUS637: Staging Music in Theory and Practice
  • MUS639: Communicating about music and music research
  • MUS627: Collaborative Project (Composition MA)
Teaching

Teaching is through seminars, reading group, graduate study days and individual tutorials.

Assessment

Assessment is through essays, short presentations and a dissertation.

Additional information

Overseas Fee (2018 annual fee) : £18,900

Musicology MA

£ 7,000 VAT inc.