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Royal Birmingham Conservatoire: Musicology
| Institution | Royal Birmingham Conservatoire |
|---|---|
| Department | Royal Birmingham Conservatoire |
| Web | https://www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoire |
| conservatoire.admissions@bcu.ac.uk | |
| Telephone | +44 (0)121 331 5901 |
| Study type | Taught |
Master of Arts - MA (PG)
Summary
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire’s Master's degree in Musicology gives you the unique opportunity to pursue your own research project within a lively and exciting conservatoire environment – the only conservatoire-based course of its kind in the UK. The course focuses on developing your research skills and your expertise within a chosen area of musicology. We welcome applicants considering research in any area of musicology, and we also encourage opportunities to develop complementary skills and/or knowledge outside of your specialism.
Musicology is the study of music, so your degree can be a research based Master's but it can also have practical elements – we try to make the course as flexible as possible. The course is aimed at students that may have studied music at undergraduate level and want to do a postgraduate qualification that isn’t focused on performance, and that want to benefit from the unique creative environment and opportunities for collaboration that a conservatoire provides.
At Royal Birmingham Conservatoire we provide you with a choice of Professional Development options (shared across our postgraduate programmes) alongside your musicological work to give you the opportunity to develop and/or expand your interests across range of complementary areas. The Conservatoire team — which comprises a large number of research-active staff — has a vast array of expertise, allowing us to supervise a wide range of projects, and we are particularly keen to attract those interested in pursuing Master's-level research in our specialist areas.
**Please note we consider applications throughout the year for this course, it does not close for applications in October.**
| Level | RQF Level 7 |
|---|---|
| Entry requirements | UK students: Normally a 2:1 honours degree, ideally but not necessarily in Music |
| Location | Main Site 200 Jennens Road Birmingham B4 7XR |
Fees
| EU | 17710 GBP for Year 1 |
|---|---|
| England | 8295 GBP for Year 1 |
| Northern Ireland | 8295 GBP for Year 1 |
| Scotland | 8295 GBP for Year 1 |
| Wales | 8295 GBP for Year 1 |
| International | 17710 GBP for Year 1 |
Summary
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire’s Master's degree in Musicology gives you the unique opportunity to pursue your own research project within a lively and exciting conservatoire environment – the only conservatoire-based course of its kind in the UK. The course focuses on developing your research skills and your expertise within a chosen area of musicology. We welcome applicants considering research in any area of musicology, and we also encourage opportunities to develop complementary skills and/or knowledge outside of your specialism.
Musicology is the study of music, so your degree can be a research based Master's but it can also have practical elements – we try to make the course as flexible as possible. The course is aimed at students that may have studied music at undergraduate level and want to do a postgraduate qualification that isn’t focused on performance, and that want to benefit from the unique creative environment and opportunities for collaboration that a conservatoire provides.
At Royal Birmingham Conservatoire we provide you with a choice of Professional Development options (shared across our postgraduate programmes) alongside your musicological work to give you the opportunity to develop and/or expand your interests across range of complementary areas. The Conservatoire team — which comprises a large number of research-active staff — has a vast array of expertise, allowing us to supervise a wide range of projects, and we are particularly keen to attract those interested in pursuing Masters-level research in our specialist areas.
**Please note we consider applications throughout the year for this course, it does not close for applications in October.**
| Level | RQF Level 7 |
|---|---|
| Location | Main Site 200 Jennens Road Birmingham B4 7XR |
Fees
| Wales | 992 GBP for Module |
|---|---|
| England | 992 GBP for Module |
| Northern Ireland | 992 GBP for Module |
| Scotland | 992 GBP for Module |
Summary
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire’s Master's degree in Musicology gives you the unique opportunity to pursue your own research project within a lively and exciting conservatoire environment – the only conservatoire-based course of its kind in the UK. The course focuses on developing your research skills and your expertise within a chosen area of musicology. We welcome applicants considering research in any area of musicology, and we also encourage opportunities to develop complementary skills and/or knowledge outside of your specialism.
Musicology is the study of music, so your degree can be a research based Master's but it can also have practical elements – we try to make the course as flexible as possible. The course is aimed at students that may have studied music at undergraduate level and want to do a postgraduate qualification that isn’t focused on performance, and that want to benefit from the unique creative environment and opportunities for collaboration that a conservatoire provides.
At Royal Birmingham Conservatoire we provide you with a choice of Professional Development options (shared across our postgraduate programmes) alongside your musicological work to give you the opportunity to develop and/or expand your interests across range of complementary areas. The Conservatoire team — which comprises a large number of research-active staff — has a vast array of expertise, allowing us to supervise a wide range of projects, and we are particularly keen to attract those interested in pursuing Master's-level research in our specialist areas.
**Please note we consider applications throughout the year for this course, it does not close for applications in October.**
| Level | RQF Level 7 |
|---|---|
| Entry requirements | UK students: Normally a 2:1 honours degree, ideally but not necessarily in Music |
| Location | Main Site 200 Jennens Road Birmingham B4 7XR |
Summary
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire’s Master's degree in Musicology gives you the unique opportunity to pursue your own research project within a lively and exciting conservatoire environment – the only conservatoire-based course of its kind in the UK. The course focuses on developing your research skills and your expertise within a chosen area of musicology. We welcome applicants considering research in any area of musicology, and we also encourage opportunities to develop complementary skills and/or knowledge outside of your specialism.
Musicology is the study of music, so your degree can be a research based Master's but it can also have practical elements – we try to make the course as flexible as possible. The course is aimed at students that may have studied music at undergraduate level and want to do a postgraduate qualification that isn’t focused on performance, and that want to benefit from the unique creative environment and opportunities for collaboration that a conservatoire provides.
At Royal Birmingham Conservatoire we provide you with a choice of Professional Development options (shared across our postgraduate programmes) alongside your musicological work to give you the opportunity to develop and/or expand your interests across range of complementary areas. The Conservatoire team — which comprises a large number of research-active staff — has a vast array of expertise, allowing us to supervise a wide range of projects, and we are particularly keen to attract those interested in pursuing Masters-level research in our specialist areas.
**Please note we consider applications throughout the year for this course, it does not close for applications in October.**
| Level | RQF Level 7 |
|---|---|
| Location | Main Site 200 Jennens Road Birmingham B4 7XR |
Summary
Whatever your interests, our Musicology course gives you the unique opportunity to pursue your own research project within a lively and exciting Conservatoire environment.
Our flexible course enables you to mould a programme of study to your own needs and aspirations, and may be approached as preparation for a research degree in music.
It is important that a musicologist also develops complementary skills and/or knowledge outside their specialism which will help equip them for a future career: professional musicologists typically find themselves, amongst other things, teaching, managing and administering; some even maintain parallel careers as professional performers or composers.
Therefore, we provide you with a choice of Professional Development Options (shared across our postgraduate programmes) alongside your musicological work to give you the opportunity to develop and/or expand your interests across a range of complementary areas.
The Conservatoire team—which comprises a large number of research-active staff—has a vast array of expertise, allowing us to supervise a wide range of projects, and we are particularly keen to attract those interested in pursuing Masters-level research in our specialist areas.
These include: Late Medieval Music; French Music of the 17th, 18th and 20th centuries; Italian Baroque Music; 18th and 19th Century British, Russian or Austro-Germanic Music; Contemporary Film and Television Music; Theory and Analysis; 20th-Century Music Theory and Analysis; and Music Critics and Criticism.
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire also hosts a significant collection of historical instruments and we welcome studies with a focus on performance practice and/or critical editing.
Recent research projects include:
- An exploration of Music Performance Anxiety in a Conservatoire Woodwind Department.
- The Music of Hans Zimmer, US Military Intervention and "The Other" in Film; the Sound of the Ungrievable.
- Easy Listening: Jerry Lanning and the BBC Radio Orchestra 1979-81.
- The Emergence and Evolution of the Piano Study in the Years 1797-1837.
- Voices from a Non-Place: An Investigation into Language, Space and the Sung Voice.
- The Lute and Non-Nobility in Elizabethan England.
- Alexei Stanchinsky (1888-1914): Context and Influences.
- Clara Schumann as Pedagogue.
- Italian Film Music During the 1930s: Political Appropriation and Socioeconomic Agendas.
- Constructive or Destructive? Assessing the Impact of Feedback in Instrumental Piano Lessons.
- Irish Rebel Music 1969-1995: Appropriation and Hidden(?) Agendas.
Our MA Musicology course can be studied as a standalone course, but it is also intended to help prepare you for a research degree.
**Please note we consider applications throughout the year for this course, it does not close for applications in October.**
| Level | RQF Level 7 |
|---|---|
| Location | Main Site 200 Jennens Road Birmingham B4 7XR |
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