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This taught programme offers an intensive introduction to
musicology, combining the study of methodologies and research
techniques with discussion of a wide variety of issue-based
topics central to contemporary musicological thought.
Programme Director for 2009/10:
Dr
Noel O'Regan
Tutors:
Prof.
Simon Frith, Dr
Annette Davison, Dr
Elaine Kelly, Prof.
Peter Nelson, Dr
Noel O'Regan, Dr
Katie Overy.
The MMus in Musicology is an excellent
choice for any music graduate (or graduates of joint degrees
with music or with equivalent qualifications) interested in
developing their studies further, and in increasing both subject-specific
and transferable skills and critical abilities. The programme
has been designed to draw upon the very broad range of music
research conducted in Edinburgh by experts in their fields.
Musicological study here covers the classical and the popular,
spans eras from the pre-modern to the present, and deals with
both musical autonomy and functional music, as composed, for
example, for the screen or for religious ceremonies.
The programme is organised into three key areas:
1 Research Methods
Courses in research methods offer methodological training,
introduce research techniques, and prepare students for the
writing of a dissertation. They include training in archival
research and in editing music, dealing with musical multimedia
and music as a recorded artifact, and quantitative and qualitative
research methodologies.
2 Issues in Musicology
Issues in musicology are introduced in two courses, dealing
with the more philosophical questions raised by skills and
methodologies elsewhere in the curriculum. These include questions
of history, canons and archival research, performance studies,
fieldwork, semiotics, the body, race, diaspora, gender, sexuality,
and consumption.
3 Focussed Research into Specific Areas
Students develop their interests
in specific research topics via both a taught course of their
choice and through an individual research project, supported
by supervision. One third of the degree is allotted to a large
research project: either a dissertation or an editorial project
(15,000 words or equivalent). Recent candidates have produced
research in a variety of areas: jazz studies (transcription
and editorial work), critical theory, music in the Edinburgh
theatre, 17th-century English 'mad' songs, 18th-century music
patronage in Scotland.
The university's music holdings, as well as Edinburgh's comprehensive
cluster of libraries and archives (including the National
Library of Scotland - a UK deposit library), provide an excellent
set of facilities for musicological research.
Structure of the Programme:
Semester 1
Semester 2
On successful completion of coursework students
proceed to write a 15,000-word Dissertation
on a musicological topic of their choice (60 credits).
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