Music MRes
University of Nottingham
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MRes - Master of Research

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SEP-26

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MRes - Master of Research

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Research overview The department offers exceptional research-led teaching, with inspiring facilities for performance, composition, music technology, and musicology. The department benefits currently from a partnership with the BBC Concert Orchestra, through which world-class performance, composition, and production experiences are offered. The Music Department enjoys a close relationship with Lakeside Arts, the University of Nottingham’s public arts programme. The MRes offers four distinct ...Read more

Research overview The department offers exceptional research-led teaching, with inspiring facilities for performance, composition, music technology, and musicology. The department benefits currently from a partnership with the BBC Concert Orchestra, through which world-class performance, composition, and production experiences are offered. The Music Department enjoys a close relationship with Lakeside Arts, the University of Nottingham’s public arts programme. The MRes offers four distinct specialisms, each supported by world-leading experts:
• Musicology
• Composition (acoustic or digital)
• Performance
• Music technology The Department of Music has world-leading expertise (64% outputs rated 4, REF 2021) and research synergies across the following areas:
• Popular music, film music, electronic music, traditions of music and dance, musical theatre, opera, jazz, sacred music, 19th-c. orchestral music, early and medieval music, twentieth-century music
• Performance studies, performance practice, improvisation, embodiment
• Computer music, mixed reality, AI, coding, audio engineering, sound art, music technologies
• Acoustic, acousmatic, electroacoustic, electronic, and digital composition
• Practice-based, archival, digital, material, analytical methodologies
• Geographies of Western Europe (esp. Britain, Germany, Italy), North America, Asia
• Politics, identity, environment, ethnicity, mobility and exchange
• Transnational, colonial, postcolonial perspectives
• Social justice
• Community music
• Social practice Participatory arts

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CUG Subject Ranking
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24th
CUG Ranking
CUG Ranking
Source: Complete University Guide 2026
26th
What students say
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23 Jan 23

I think there needs to be more activities during freshers week where students who are staying in off-campus accommodation are included, I found it hard to make friends at the..Read more

SR
Student Reviewer
23 Jan 23

The campus is excellent and very beautiful, and there's lots to get involved in. I love going for long walks around the lake. It is also in a good location with plenty of cheap..Read more

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Entry requirements

2:1 (or international equivalent) in music or a related subject.

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£5,260 per year

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£25,750 per year

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23 Jan 23
I think there needs to be more activities during freshers week where students who are staying in off-campus accommodation are included, I found it hard to make friends at the...
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SR
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23 Jan 23
The campus is excellent and very beautiful, and there's lots to get involved in. I love going for long walks around the lake. It is also in a good location with plenty of cheap...
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University of Nottingham
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The University of Nottingham is a pioneering institution with a long and distinguished heritage in education....

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University Park Nottingham Nottinghamshire NG7 2RD United Kingdom
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