Welcome to the Department of Music
Music at Goldsmiths is dynamic, innovative and creative.
To walk through the corridors of the Department is to move through a soundscape that mixes electronica with orchestral music, choral singing with hip hop, Sundanese gamelan with alternative rock, and much more besides.
We are a vibrant and expanding department, with a significant international reputation for musical practice and scholarship and a remarkably diverse range of programmes. We are research driven, and our members of staff are internationally renowned in their fields, ensuring that we are constantly at the forefront of the study of music as a creative, cultural and social process. We support approximately 225 undergraduates, some 45 students taking Masters courses and over 70 research students working towards a PhD. Whether an undergraduate or a postgraduate student you will find yourself to be part of a large, friendly department that places great emphasis on creative practice, but which also considers how that practice is complemented by and interacts with a wide range of scholarly work across the music studies field.
To walk through the corridors of the Department is to move through a soundscape that mixes electronica with orchestral music, choral singing with hip hop, Sundanese gamelan with alternative rock, and much more besides.
We are a vibrant and expanding department, with a significant international reputation for musical practice and scholarship and a remarkably diverse range of programmes. We are research driven, and our members of staff are internationally renowned in their fields, ensuring that we are constantly at the forefront of the study of music as a creative, cultural and social process. We support approximately 225 undergraduates, some 45 students taking Masters courses and over 70 research students working towards a PhD. Whether an undergraduate or a postgraduate student you will find yourself to be part of a large, friendly department that places great emphasis on creative practice, but which also considers how that practice is complemented by and interacts with a wide range of scholarly work across the music studies field.
Music programmes:
- BMus (Hons) Music (Extension Degree)
- BMus (Hons) Music (full time)
- BMus (Hons) Music (part time)
- BMus (Hons) Popular Music
- BMus/BSc (Hons) Music Computing
- Certificate for Postgraduate Study in Music
- MA in Arts Administration & Cultural Policy: Music Pathway
- MA in Music
- MA in Music (Contemporary and Popular Music Studies)
- MA in Music (Ethnomusicology)
- MA in Music (Historical Musicology)
- MMus in Composition
- MMus in Creative Practice
- MMus in Performance & Related Studies
- MMus in Studio Composition
- MPhil & PhD in Music
- Part-time, evening and short Music courses
Latest from Music
PhD Studentship
The department is able to offer one studentship for doctoral research, for studies commencing in October 2010. For more information, click here.
Music for Alice Award
This is an annual bursary for Masters students. For more information on how to apply, click here.
Xenakis Conference 2011
The CCMC and Southbank Centre are organising a conference on Xenakis. For information and how to submit papers, click here.
Upcoming Events
Friday 10 September Monday 27 September Tuesday 5 October Friday 8 October
Patricia Rosner, BMus in Music