PhD Musicology

The Division of Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology at the University of North Texas provides advanced instruction and practice that prepares you for a career in music academia and higher education. Special topic seminars are available, such as Opera studies, Music in Vienna around 1900 or on how to prepare a Critical Music Edition.

Our courses are diverse in their approaches and perspectives. However, they have common themes of examining music as a set of texts and as a reflection of social practices. Courses are available that focus on Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, 19th- and 20th-century and Latin American music.

Our faculty members are internationally renowned for their research in a wide range of areas, such as:

• Source study and archival research
• Historical performance practices
• Hermeneutics and semiotics
• Religious and cultural history
• Printing culture
• Critical studies in politics, gender, and ethnicity
• Editorial techniques and philology