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Musicology (Taught)

1 Study option · PostgraduateEdinburgh College of Art

Course summary

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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The University of Edinburgh

The University of Edinburgh
Old College
South Bridge
Edinburgh
EH8 9YL

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