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
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