MA Music (Musicology)
Goldsmiths, University of London
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The Musicology pathway in the MA Music programme qualifies graduates to embark upon their own research. While honing specialist skills, this pathway teaches students bold approaches to music as a practice and an academic discipline.Taking up current debates and formative ideas, the Musicology pathway prepares students for advanced-level teaching, research, music editing, criticism, broadcasting, librarianship or historically aware performance. Rigorous training, for instance in working with ...Read more

The Musicology pathway in the MA Music programme qualifies graduates to embark upon their own research. While honing specialist skills, this pathway teaches students bold approaches to music as a practice and an academic discipline.

  • Taking up current debates and formative ideas, the Musicology pathway prepares students for advanced-level teaching, research, music editing, criticism, broadcasting, librarianship or historically aware performance. Rigorous training, for instance in working with primary sources, is combined with a radical interrogation of musicology’s future in the twenty-first century.
  • Two compulsory options deliver fundamental knowledge, and you choose two options from those offered across MA and MMus pathways. The knowledge acquired from your coursework underpins your dissertation, supervised throughout the year in one-to-one tutorials with a leading academic.

Skills

You will develop investigation and evaluation skills, intellectual skills in music and specific research skills.

Careers

The programme is designed to provide preparation for those who wish to be involved in teaching, editorial work, journalistic criticism, lecturing, research at MPhil/PhD level, broadcasting, librarianship, or historically aware performance.

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Entry requirements

Students should have (or expect to be awarded) an undergraduate degree of at least upper second class standard in Music or an equivalent subject. Student's qualification should comprise a substantial academic element relevant to the selected MA pathway and option choices. For the generic MA in Music award, they should write a detailed proposal explaining the rationale for their option course choices and how these provide a coherent programme of study leading to dissertation. A detailed transcript of their degree is preferred. Students who have completed up to 90 credits (not including final 60-credit projects or dissertations) of a comparable degree at another university can apply for recognition of prior learning status as part of their application for a place on the programme, where such credits are carried forward into your study at Goldsmiths.

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£9,630 per year

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£19,520 per year

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£19,520 per year

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Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross Lewisham SE14 6NW United Kingdom
Nearest tube station: New Cross  0.1 miles away Nearest train station: New Cross  0.1 miles away
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