Music

Overview

In our Musicology & Ethnomusicology pathway, you can explore a wide range of music and approaches, while learning advanced skills in writing and research. Our Composition pathway allows you to both develop your compositional skills and explore other areas of music studies. You can also select from a wide range of modules across Arts & Humanities at King’s College London.

Key benefits

• Intensively taught course covering a wide range of specialised topics.

• Provides a foundation for further research focusing on current approaches and advanced techniques.

• Musicology & Ethnomusicology students choose from historical, sociocultural and theoretical modules taught by distinguished staff.

• Composition students benefit from one-to-one lessons and participation in composition seminars and have the opportunity to hear their works performed by resident ensemble Lontano.

• Option to take modules in other Arts & Humanities departments at King’s, or at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).

• Located in the heart of London’s music scene, with two major opera companies (Royal Opera Covent Garden and English National Opera) and two major arts centres (South Bank Centre - location of the Royal Festival Hall - and Barbican) within walking distance.

Career prospects

Our graduates have gone on to further research at the doctoral level in the Department or elsewhere in the UK or overseas (particularly the USA). Others have transferred the skills and knowledge they develop to careers in teaching, media, arts administration and other fields.