Music

Overview

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 programme and pathways available are:

• MA Music (General)

• Musicology (Pathway A)

• Contemporary Music Studies (Pathway B)

• Ethnomusicology (Pathway C)

• Popular Music Research (Pathway D)

The MA Music equips graduates to take up careers in music such as journalism, teaching, broadcasting, librarianship, historically informed performance, contemporary composition, and arts administration. The programme’s modules explore music as an evolving subject, covering repertories from Western art music through to electronic, popular, audio-visual, non-Western, and contemporary repertories.

• You develop systematic, critical and creative approaches, exploring musical practice, discourses, and contexts.
• You develop an independent and original approach to current questions and debates.
• You explore interrelationships between music and other subjects, between theory and practice, and between performance and structural interpretation.

The Music programme, offered by Goldsmiths, University of London , 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.

Skills

You'll develop:

• investigation and evaluation skills

• intellectual skills in music

• specific research skills

Careers

The programme is designed with careful consideration of the opportunities, challenges and intellectual demands presented by careers in music, such as:

• journalism

• teaching

• broadcasting

• librarianship

• historically informed performance

• contemporary composition

• arts administration