Musicology at Eastman is intensely interdisciplinary and intimately informed by the rich musical environment of the school. The department offers a PhD degree, with an emphasis in historical and critical studies or ethnomusicology, and an MA degree in musicology or ethnomusicology. With eight full-time faculty plus affiliated faculty at the University of Rochester, the Musicology Department features expertise in subjects ranging from opera, jazz, and Renaissance sacred music to gender studies, ecomusicology, and intersections between music and politics. Recent seminars have focused on early opera, Romanticism and improvisation, sound and media studies, Black vocal music, Hildegard von Bingen, post-humanist aesthetics, and South Asian music.
The Faculty of Music has one of the largest and liveliest communities of graduate students in the United Kingdom. Usually...
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Learn MoreSteep yourself in the music of the past and present, with an emphasis on musical styles, genres, composers and individual...
Learn MoreThe UBC School of Music offers a PhD in Music with an emphasis on Musicology, Music Theory, or Ethnomusicology. Qualified...
Learn MoreThe musicology program spans the entire spectrum of music history, from the earliest chant to music of the 20th century....
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