Music
Entry requirements
A 2:1 honours degree or higher (or international equivalent), in a related subject. PhD applicants also require a Master's degree at Merit standard or higher (or international equivalent).
Months of entry
January, September
Course content
Practice-based research focuses on composition, performance, improvisation and other forms of multi-media work.
Areas of musicological and theoretical inquiry can include the following approaches:
- cultural and critical
- historiographic
- ethnomusicological
- music analytical
- philosophical and aesthetic.
Applications are welcome from students with academic or practice-based research interests in any field that we are able to supervise.
To view the staff areas of expertise please visit:
You'll join a wider community of fellow postgraduate students working in the International Centre for Music Studies (ICMuS), and more widely in the School of Arts and Cultures and Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. ICMuS also holds regular PhD/MPhil forums for students to discuss their research.
Information for international students
English Language Requirements:
Direct Entry: IELTS 7.0 overall (with a minimum of 6.5 in all sub-skills).
If you have lower English Language scores, you may be accepted onto a Pre-sessional English course.
Fees and funding
See Fees and Funding tab in the Programme information in our online Prospectus.
Qualification, course duration and attendance options
- PhD
- part time72 months
- Campus-based learningis available for this qualification
- full time36 months
- Campus-based learningis available for this qualification
- MPhil
- part time24 months
- Campus-based learningis available for this qualification
- full time12 months
- Campus-based learningis available for this qualification
Course contact details
- Name
- Dr Bennett Hogg, School of Arts and Cultures
- SACS.PGR.Admin@newcastle.ac.uk
- Phone
- +44 (0) 191 208 3509