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Master of Music - MMus
Main Campus
Full Time
Sep 2027
1 Year
The MMus in Musicology offers you the opportunity to explore a wide range of approaches in music scholarship, and to engage in contemporary debates about what music is, how it works, and why it is such a fundamental and significant part of human culture. You will be taught by world-leading researchers, whose expertise includes areas such as:cultural, material and political histories of musicjazz and popular music studiesmusic analysismusic and audiovisual mediamusic psychology and cognitionmusic instrument researchmusic sociologyphilosophy of musicThe programme will provide you with advanced critical thinking and research skills, and will support you to develop your own musicology research project.