MA
Music

The MA Music delivers core skills for academic research into music. Providing a uniquely creative approach to graduate studies, the degree accommodates diverse interests and approaches.

The MA Music advances your exploration of today’s music in all its complexity.

From a range of stimulating pathways, you choose one that best suits your interests. Modules are shared across pathways, and are rooted in academic and practice-based research.

Four different pathways are available to study:

MA Music (Musicology)

The Musicology pathway 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.

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MA Music (Ethnomusicology)

The Ethnomusicology pathway introduces a range of methodologies for the study of music in its cultural contexts engaging with practices in various geographic or cultural areas.

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MA Music (Popular Music Research)

The Popular Music Research pathway engages with scholarly debates and public controversies around popular music while examining and developing both traditional and innovative ways of researching popular music.

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MA Music (Audiovisual Cultures)

The Audiovisual Culture pathway offers you a unique opportunity to engage with cutting-edge interdisciplinary research on music and the moving image, including film, video games, social media, augmented reality and music videos.

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The MA Music is an academic rather than a practice-based degree. If you're keen to study composition or performance, please explore our MMus programme and its pathways.