Goldsmiths - University of London

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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.

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.

Student comment: The open atmosphere and the impressive academic standards created an environment in which I felt I could grow.

Patricia Rosner, BMus in Music