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Musicology Master's
Master of Arts (M.A.)
Program type:
Major
Format:
On Campus
Est. time to complete:
2-3 years
Credit Hours:
36
Help advance scholarly discourse about music in all its cultural and intellectual
diversity.
The Division of Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology at the University of North
Texas provides advanced instruction and practice that prepares you for a career in
music academia and higher education. Special topic seminars are available, such as
Opera studies, Music in Vienna around 1900 or on how to prepare a Critical Music Edition.
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Request More InfoWhy earn a degree in Musicology?
Our courses are diverse in their approaches and perspectives. However, they have common themes of examining music as a set of texts and as a reflection of social practices. Courses are available that focus on Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, 19th- and 20th-century and Latin American music.
Our faculty members are internationally renowned for their research in a wide range of areas, such as:
- Source study and archival research
- Historical performance practices
- Hermeneutics and semiotics
- Religious and cultural history
- Printing culture
- Critical studies in politics, gender, and ethnicity
- Editorial techniques and philology
Marketable Skills
- Instruction of musical skills
- Music copying and transcribing
- Public event management assistance
- Book/journal editing
- Advanced data collection and analysis
Musicology Master's Highlights
International study abroad programs can provide you with an array of learning experiences.
We collaborate with institutions and scholars in Europe, Asia, Africa and South America
for these opportunities.
The Graduate Association of Musicologists und Theorists (GAMuT) is an active group
of our graduate students who organize an annual academic conference, publish the journal
Harmonia, and host regular professional development meetings, faculty and student
research presentations and social gatherings.
Positions as teaching fellows and teaching assistants are available and allow you
to gain hands-on experience. Teaching fellows usually teach two classes a week, while
teaching assistants contribute to a class taught by a professor through technical
management or lab-teaching and review.
The college supports many ensembles, orchestras, choirs and jazz bands that have released
numerous recordings, earned Grammy Award nominations and performed throughout the
world.
Facilities include 300 practice rooms, seven performance venues (including Winspear
Hall at the Murchison Performing Arts Center and Voertman Hall), numerous classrooms,
rehearsal rooms, computer labs and an intermedia theater.
Musicology students have collaborated in editing works by Claudio Monteverdi, which
have been published by the distinguished German publisher Bärenreiter.
What Can You Do With A Degree in Musicology?
Many of our graduates have successful careers as professors or lecturers at colleges and universities in Texas, the U.S. and abroad. Others work with music publishers or in large research libraries.
Musicology Master's Courses You Could Take
World Music Analysis (3 hrs)
Topics include analytical approaches to world music; theoretical and practical issues
in transcription; and development of new paradigms for transcription, analysis and
graphic representation of music.
Music Cultures of the World (3 hrs)
This course is a selected survey of music cultures of the world with an examination
of musical traditions from a perspective that emphasizes music as an integral part
of society and culture.
Introduction to Musicology (3 hrs)
Topics include critical assessment of current issues, methodologies and themes in
musicological research.
Music in Latin America (3 hrs)
This course is an examination of selected topics in the history of music by Latin
American composers. Topics vary by term/semester.
Music in the United States (3 hrs)
This course is an examination of selected topics in the history of music in the United
States. Topics vary by term/semester.
Analytical Techniques for Popular Music (3 hrs)
This course is an analysis of materials and techniques in popular music and related
musical genres.
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