Musicology University of Leeds

Overview

On the Musicology MA degree offered at University of Leeds, you’ll explore a broad range of theoretical and methodological approaches to musicology, applied research methods, and issues that affect our understanding, reception and interpretation of music. 

Key facts

• You may also choose (provided you have the necessary prior knowledge and experience) an optional module that will enable you to focus on a specific area of music in depth, such performance, electronic music, or music psychology. 

• Together, the core and optional modules will provide you with the knowledge and skills to develop musicological projects according to your own interests.

• Your major project will take the form of a dissertation with a specific musicological focus, or a piece of applied or practice-led work such as an editing or transcription project, or an archival or fieldwork study, defining your topic in consultation with one of our expert staff. 

• In addition to this, you may optionally choose to undertake a second, smaller musicological project on a topic of your own choice (a Short Dissertation, an Individual Project or, subject to approval, an International Research Project).

Careers and opportunities 

Your subject-specific knowledge will bring your critical, applied, research and problem-solving abilities to the fore, and you’ll be able to articulate how the experience gained through your postgraduate course has prepared you for whatever comes next, be that work or doctoral research.

The postgraduate courses equip our graduates to work in a wide range of areas within the music industry, including:

• Performing

• Composing

• Teaching, lecturing and coaching

• Arts, artist, project and event management

• PR

• Creative production

• Theatrical stage direction and musical direction

• Music supervision

• Music publishing and copyright

• Marketing and digital marketing

• Arts research

• Music therapy