Music Studies (Arts and Culture)
Music Studies offers an innovative blend of historical, cultural and cognitive musicology. You will explore music as art, performance and lived experience, engaging with a wide range of musical practices from diverse times and places. The programme is firmly embedded in the humanities, yet builds strong bridges to the social sciences and cognitive sciences.
Choose your own study path
Global musical perspectives
Interdisciplinary expertise
Research skills and practical experience
Is Music Studies right for you?
- You want to investigate how music works, what it means, and how it shapes the societies in which it sounds.
- You are interested in diverse musics such as 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.
- You want to familiarise yourself with historiography, cognitive science, postcolonial theory, computation, ethnography, or philosophy, and relate or combine these intellectual frameworks in your studies of music.
- You would like to be part of a student community that brings a rich variety of musical backgrounds and perspectives into the classroom.
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.
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