Music Studies (Arts and Culture)
The one-year Master's programme Music Studies enables you to specialise in historical, cultural or cognitive musicology, or a combination of the three.
Music as art. Music as performance. Music as experience.
The University of Amsterdam offers a rich combination of musicological approaches with strong links to other scholarly disciplines. Functioning within the realm of the humanities, the sciences and the social sciences, the Master's programme in Music Studies highlights the multifaceted ways in which music can be perceived and understood, cherishing the manifold historical, cultural and cognitive musical experiences that staff and students bring with them from many different parts of the world.
In this video the teacher and student of this Master’s explain in about 5 minutes how this programme is structured and what you will learn.
Rich combination of musicological approaches
Offered in part-time study mode
Internship possible
Up to 18 ECTS electives
Multifaceted musicology
The Master's programme in Music Studies is unique in enabling its students to familiarise themselves with historiography, cognitive science, postcolonial theory, computation, ethnography, or philosophy, and relate or combine these intellectual frameworks in their studies of music.
Musicology of the world
The academic staff's research areas encompass a wide range of musics of the world, including musical traditions from the Middle East, European and North American art music traditions of the past two centuries, South African music, Indonesian music, and jazz worldwide.
Degree certificate
Music Studies is an accredited degree programme of Arts and Culture. After successful completion of this programme, you will receive a legally accredited Master’s degree in Arts and Culture and the title Master of Arts (MA).
- Degree programme
- MA Arts and Culture
- Type
- Regular study programme
- Mode
- Full-time, part-time
- Credits
- 60 ECTS, 12 months
- Language of instruction
- English
- Starts in
- September
- RIO code
- 60087
- Location
- University Quarter