MA Music - Ethnomusicology

The programme team should be highly commended for providing a thorough and varied training on the MA Ethnomusicology. The programme structure and the teaching staff provide an excellent learning environment for students to develop knowledge, understanding and skills. It is evident from the high quality student work and the detailed feedback that a great deal of care and attention is given by teaching staff to the individual interests and projects of students" (External Examiner, 2017).

Several key factors combine to make the MA in Ethnomusicology at UCC the most popular course of its kind on the island of Ireland. The MA is unique in Ireland through its emphasis on learning through performance and discussion and the practical application of these skills in the service of new research. We uphold a fully contemporaneous model of ethnomusicology, fully open to applied research outside the academy and to the insights of other disciplines, from folklore to anthropology and from sound studies to performance. It benefits from the intellectual and musical environment of a large, diverse Department of Music in which all musics are treated as equally worthy of study and respect. The MA in Ethnomusicology at UCC is delivered by a large, experienced team of diversely skilled researchers and teachers who have well-established international reputations for their work in the discipline.