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Master
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Music Studies (Arts and Culture)

Study programme

The Master's in Music Studies is a one-year programme that allows you to specialise in historical, cultural and cognitive musicology, or a combination of the three.

Programme structure

The Master's programme in Music Studies comprises 60 ECTS credits: 30 credits for Core courses; up to 12 credits for electives; 6/12 credits for an Internship (optional instead of electives); and 18 credits for Master’s thesis.

COURSES SEM 1 SEM 2 SEMESTER 1 SEMESTER 2 EC
  • Knowing the World through Music
    6
  • Restricted-choice electives
    12

    You can choose between the following courses: Generative AI and Music, Music History and Cultural Politics, Musicology of the Everyday or How Music Works: Inside the Musical Mind.

  • Restricted-choice electives
    12

    You can choose from: Perspectives on Music, Cognition and Computation, Reading Black Music: Key Texts on African American Music and other Afro-diasporic Genres, Music Theatre as a Laboratory, Humanities Now: Curating Dialogues or Humanities Now: Perspectives and Practices.

  • Free-choice electives
    12

    In principle, all courses that are part of a curriculum of a Master's degree programme (including the free electives included therein) can be taken as an elective course, provided you meet the entry requirements. You can always select our restricted-choice courses as free choice electives. It is also possible to do an internship.

  • Master's Thesis Music Studies
    18
Compulsory course
Elective
UvA Course Catalogue: Music Studies
  • Core modules and electives

    Students are required to start the programme with a choice of core courses that cover aspects of Cultural musicology and Cognitive or Historical musicology and finish the programme with a 20,000-word thesis. They choose several musicology and interdisciplinary electives. Core courses can also be chosen as electives.

  • Internships

    There is, moreover, the opportunity to enrol for an internship (with a well-articulated research component) at one of the many professional music organisations, ensembles, music venues, and festivals in Amsterdam or elsewhere in the Netherlands.

  • Music Studies in part-time mode

    This programme is also offered in part-time study mode, in which case it takes 2 years. You can obtain a maximum of 30 ECTS per year (12-18 ECTS per semester). As a part-time student you will follow the programme together with full-time students. You will prepare your study plan for the part-time programme in consultation with the Master’s programme coordinator (See: Contact).

  • Credit transfer

    Students who show exceptional promise during a regular or professional programme are encouraged to continue their studies in a research programme. Once students are admitted to the research programme, they can transfer credits earned during their previous course of study towards their research programme degree. The Examinations Board determines which courses qualify for transfer.