Music MPhil, PhD
Newcastle University
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PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy

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16-SEP-24, 06-JAN-25

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36 months

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Our Music PhD programmes enable you to pursue advanced research in the areas of classical, popular, world, contemporary, early, folk and traditional music through a range of approaches. These include practice-based research, and musicological and theoretical inquiry.Practice-based research focuses on composition, performance, improvisation and other forms of multi-media work.Areas of musicological and theoretical inquiry can include the following approaches:cultural and ...Read more

Our Music PhD programmes enable you to pursue advanced research in the areas of classical, popular, world, contemporary, early, folk and traditional music through a range of approaches. These include practice-based research, and musicological and theoretical inquiry.

Practice-based research focuses on composition, performance, improvisation and other forms of multi-media work.

Areas of musicological and theoretical inquiry can include the following approaches:

cultural and critical
historiographic
ethnomusicological
music analytical
philosophical and aesthetic

If you choose to engage in academic research you are normally assessed by a thesis of no more than 100,000 words for PhD and 50,000 words for MPhil. If you choose to undertake practice-based research you will normally submit a portfolio (eg of scores, sound files, video files, other forms of documentation or some combination of these), supplemented by a related dissertation to explain the larger, practice-based component.

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30th
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Abigail
11 Jan 24

Facilities are amazing, with music studios and any instrument you could want available to you for free loans. The course is so much fun with a variety of modules to choose from to..Read more

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14 Mar 22

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Entry requirements

A 2:1 honours degree or higher (or international equivalent), in a related subject. PhD applicants also require a Master's degree at Merit standard or higher (or international equivalent).

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£4,712 per year

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£22,800 per year

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£22,800 per year

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