MA Musicology
Our MA Musicology offers a gateway to developing your interests at postgraduate level and is not only for those who have an undergraduate music degree. Recent MA Musicologists have come from unrelated careers or are working musicians or teachers seeking another side to their interests. For others, the course is a stepping stone to PhD study, facilitating the development of a project and the opportunity to gain vital research skills within a supportive environment.
Whatever your interests, our Musicology course gives you the unique opportunity to pursue your own research project within a lively and exciting Conservatoire environment.
Our flexible course enables you to mould a programme of study to your own needs and aspirations, and may be approached as preparation for a research degree in music.
It is important that a musicologist also develops complementary skills and/or knowledge outside their specialism which will help equip them for a future career: professional musicologists typically find themselves, amongst other things, teaching, managing and administering; some even maintain parallel careers as professional performers or composers.
Therefore, we provide you with a choice of Professional Development Options (shared across our postgraduate programmes) alongside your musicological work to give you the opportunity to develop and/or expand your interests across a range of complementary areas.
The Conservatoire team—which comprises a large number of research-active staff—has a vast array of expertise, allowing us to supervise a wide range of projects, and we are particularly keen to attract those interested in pursuing Masters-level research in our specialist areas.
These include: Late Medieval Music; French Music of the 17th, 18th and 20th centuries; Italian Baroque Music; 18th and 19th Century British, Russian or Austro-Germanic Music; Contemporary Film and Television Music; Theory and Analysis; 20th-Century Music Theory and Analysis; and Music Critics and Criticism.
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire also hosts a significant collection of historical instruments and we welcome studies with a focus on performance practice and/or critical editing.
Recent research projects include:
Our MA Musicology course can be studied as a standalone course, but it is also intended to help prepare you for a research degree.
Please note we consider applications throughout the year for this course, it does not close for applications in October.
Our MA Musicology offers a gateway to developing your interests at postgraduate level and is not only for those who have an undergraduate music degree. Recent MA Musicologists have come from unrelated careers or are working musicians or teachers seeking another side to their interests. For others, the course is a stepping stone to PhD study, facilitating the development of a project and the opportunity to gain vital research skills within a supportive environment.
Whatever your interests, our Musicology course gives you the unique opportunity to pursue your own research project within a lively and exciting Conservatoire environment.
Our flexible course enables you to mould a programme of study to your own needs and aspirations, and may be approached as preparation for a research degree in music.
It is important that a musicologist also develops complementary skills and/or knowledge outside their specialism which will help equip them for a future career: professional musicologists typically find themselves, amongst other things, teaching, managing and administering; some even maintain parallel careers as professional performers or composers.
Therefore, we provide you with a choice of Professional Development Options (shared across our postgraduate programmes) alongside your musicological work to give you the opportunity to develop and/or expand your interests across a range of complementary areas.
The Conservatoire team—which comprises a large number of research-active staff—has a vast array of expertise, allowing us to supervise a wide range of projects, and we are particularly keen to attract those interested in pursuing Masters-level research in our specialist areas.
These include: Late Medieval Music; French Music of the 17th, 18th and 20th centuries; Italian Baroque Music; 18th and 19th Century British, Russian or Austro-Germanic Music; Contemporary Film and Television Music; Theory and Analysis; 20th-Century Music Theory and Analysis; and Music Critics and Criticism.
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire also hosts a significant collection of historical instruments and we welcome studies with a focus on performance practice and/or critical editing.
Recent research projects include:
Our MA Musicology course can be studied as a standalone course, but it is also intended to help prepare you for a research degree.
Please note we consider applications throughout the year for this course, it does not close for applications in October.
