Course summary
The information provided on this page was correct at the time of publication (October/November 2022). For complete and up-to-date information about this course, please visit the relevant University of Oxford course page via www.graduate.ox.ac.uk/ucas. The MPhil is designed for students wishing to attain a thorough grounding in musical performance studies at an advanced level, either as a preparation for doctoral research or an autonomous qualification. In the first year you will follow the MSt in Music (Performance), proceeding in the second year to individual supervision leading to the completion of a recital and a dissertation. The Master of Philosophy in Music (Performance) introduces a broad range of current methodologies and approaches in music scholarship. Year one The first year of the course is identical to that of the MSt in Music (Performance). The main teaching and coursework is done in the first two terms and the third is reserved for completion of assessed work. Core seminars In the Michaelmas term there are typically six topics:
- historical musicology
- current trends in music theory
- aesthetics
- the social and cultural study of music
- performance
- Pitch, Amplitude, Timbre
- Brazilian Music
- Distributed Creativity in Composition and Performance
- Thirteenth-Century Motets
- Music and (Non) Religion
- Music and Race
- Gender and Sexuality in Popular Music Studies
- Music and Islamic Culture
- Beethoven between History and Myth.
Entry requirements
For complete and up-to-date information about this course, please visit the relevant University of Oxford course page via www.graduate.ox.ac.uk/ucas
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