The University of Edinburgh - Postgraduate Discovery Day
18 Mar 2026, 09:00
Edinburgh
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 music
jazz and popular music studies
music analysis
music and audiovisual media
music psychology and cognition
music instrument research
music sociology
philosophy of music
The programme will provide you with advanced critical thinking and research skills, and will support you to develop your own musicology research project.
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Course optionsThe University of Edinburgh
Old College
South Bridge
Edinburgh
EH8 9YL