Are you passionate about music and would you like to better understand it using interdisciplinary methods? Are you particularly interested in its foundations, origins, styles, genres, languages, or modes of expression, creation, diffusion, consumption, or reception?
Several training programs, spanning the 3 cycles, will allow you to deepen your knowledge in one of the fields of musicology, and human sciences in general. In addition to acquiring the foundations of the scientific approach, you will develop the intellectual rigor necessary for the development and realization of a research project. If you wish to combine the singular and exploratory nature of creation with the objectivity and requirements of research, research-creation will allow you to combine these two worlds which influence each other during a project aimed at the development of an original artistic production and a theoretical discourse.
Diversity of approach and breadth of expertise distinguish graduate study in musicology and ethnomusicology at the UW–Madison. Our commitment to...
Learn MoreThe Department of Music offers a variety of doctoral degrees. Degrees and concentrations are listed below. The Doctor of Musical...
Learn MoreThe graduate program in musicology offers rigorous and broad training in the intellectual history of the field. Students benefit from...
Learn MoreThe Musicology pathway is designed to introduce students to a wide variety of musicological methods, theories and approaches, to develop...
Learn MoreThe Department offers the Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Music (concentration in Musicology), with emphases possible...
Learn MoreThe Roland Jackson Memorial Grant honors noted music historian and long-time AMS member, Roland Jackson (1925-2015), and is intended to...
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