Course summary
The Musicology pathway in the MA Music programme qualifies graduates to embark upon their own research. While honing specialist skills, this pathway teaches students bold approaches to music as a practice and an academic discipline.
- Taking up current debates and formative ideas, the Musicology pathway prepares students for advanced-level teaching, research, music editing, criticism, broadcasting, librarianship or historically aware performance. Rigorous training, for instance in working with primary sources, is combined with a radical interrogation of musicology’s future in the twenty-first century.
- Two compulsory options deliver fundamental knowledge, and you choose two options from those offered across MA and MMus pathways. The knowledge acquired from your coursework underpins your dissertation, supervised throughout the year in one-to-one tutorials with a leading academic.
- Private tours to archives and other relevant institutions in and around London complement onsite teaching.
Modules
Each Masters degree is awarded after the accumulation of 180 credits, made up of compulsory and option modules. You take the following compulsory modules: Advanced Music Studies 30 credits Sources and Resources in the Digital Age 30 credits or Contemporary Music: Practice and Discourse 30 credits Option modules You choose 60 credits of option modules. These modules change on an annual basis, and recent options include: Analysing Contemporary Music: From Serialism to Spectral Noise 30 credits Contemporary Ethnomusicology 30 credits Contemporary Music: Practice and Discourse 30 credits Critical Musicology and Popular Music 30 credits Ethnographic Film and Music Research 30 credits Music Management 30 credits New Directions in Popular Music Research 30 credits Performance as Research (Ethnomusicology) 30 credits Popular Music and its Critics 30 credits Research through Musical Performance 30 credits Sound Agendas 30 credits Philosophies of Music 30 credits Dissertation Dissertation 60 credits *Please note that due to staff research commitments not all of these modules may be available every year.
Entry requirements
You should have (or expect to be awarded) an undergraduate degree of at least upper second class standard in Music or an equivalent subject. Your qualification should comprise a substantial academic element relevant to the selected MA pathway and option choices. A detailed transcript of your degree is preferred. Students who have completed up to 90 credits (not including final 60-credit projects or dissertations) of a comparable degree at another university can apply for recognition of prior learning status as part of their application for a place on the programme, where such credits are carried forward into your study at Goldsmiths. If English isn’t your first language, you will need an IELTS score (or equivalent English language qualification) of 6.5 with a 6.5 in writing and no element lower than 6.0 to study this programme.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
No fee information has been provided for this course
Additional fee information
Unless otherwise stated the annual fee for part-time students is half the full-time fee quoted.
Provider information
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross
Lewisham
SE14 6NW