Course summary

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire’s Master's degree in Musicology gives you the unique opportunity to pursue your own research project within a lively and exciting conservatoire environment – the only conservatoire-based course of its kind in the UK. The course focuses on developing your research skills and your expertise within a chosen area of musicology. We welcome applicants considering research in any area of musicology, and we also encourage opportunities to develop complementary skills and/or knowledge outside of your specialism. Musicology is the study of music, so your degree can be a research based Master's but it can also have practical elements – we try to make the course as flexible as possible. The course is aimed at students that may have studied music at undergraduate level and want to do a postgraduate qualification that isn’t focused on performance, and that want to benefit from the unique creative environment and opportunities for collaboration that a conservatoire provides. At Royal Birmingham Conservatoire we provide you with a choice of Professional Development options (shared across our postgraduate programmes) alongside your musicological work to give you the opportunity to develop and/or expand your interests across range of complementary areas. The Conservatoire team — which comprises a large number of research-active staff — has a vast array of expertise, allowing us to supervise a wide range of projects, and we are particularly keen to attract those interested in pursuing Masters-level research in our specialist areas. Please note we consider applications throughout the year for this course, it does not close for applications in October.