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Expand your skill set as a musicologist with an in-depth focus on the scholarly study of music, musical meaning in human experience, musical terminology, music’s reception, historiography, biography and transdisciplinary topics.
Program description
In the Master of Arts program in music, with a concentration in musicology, faculty provide and participate in multisensory learning experiences concerning musical genres, styles and forms, performance and listening practices, instruments, spaces, philosophies, musical infrastructures, and geographic locations.
Faculty comprises leading scholars specializing in Western and non-Western music, particularly traditions in the Americas and music of the Middle East, Central Asia, Latin America and Indonesia. Students can study a variety of topics such as medieval music cultures, the long nineteenth century, jazz, music in popular cultures, musical modernism and experimentalism, intellectual property law, cultural policy, improvisation, sound studies, ecomusicology, dance and embodiment, and music’s role in well-being.
Students must submit a final project that demonstrates advanced competence and professional capability in research and writing in musicology or ethnomusicology. The culminating project may be a thesis, a series of special papers, or a written work of equivalent scope and depth.
