Creative Music Practice at The University of Edinburgh - UCAS

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Course summary

The PhD in Creative Music Practice is an opportunity for you to pursue practice-led research in the field of music at the highest level. This will involve research that combines textual and musical outputs, for example:

  • composition
  • performance (either of original or pre-existing repertoire)
  • installation
  • sound design
  • interactive music software
Typical applicants to this programme include:
  • composer-theorists who wish to carry out research into and practice of particular compositional models * performers who wish to deepen their practice through musicological research
  • computer-music composers who wish to develop documented hardware/software systems for their music
  • performers with a need to study the techniques and organology of period instruments
  • instrument builders/researchers seeking historical techniques found in evidence from the original instruments


Entry requirements

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Creative Music Practice at The University of Edinburgh - UCAS