Music
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Entry requirements
Our regular standard of admission is at least an upper second class Honours degree (2:1), although candidates will usually also have completed or be undertaking a Masters qualification.
Months of entry
Anytime
Course content
Music PhDs at Glasgow comprise a process of research over 3 years full-time or 5 years part-time that leads to either a thesis that may be supported by practical work, or a portfolio of practical work supported by a written component. If your work is centred on cultural or historical musicology, this provides great opportunity to support your main thesis with performance, edition or other forms of musical practice. If you are a composer, improvisor, or sonic artist, this provides a great opportunity to develop your creative work and present this as a substantial piece of practice research.
Topics in which we would welcome postgraduate research include:
- Composition, including experimental music, intercultural aspects of composition and music and the moving image
- Historical and cultural musicology, including philosophy and aesthetics of music, music in popular culture, music and politics and music and modernism
- Sonic arts and audiovisual practice, including live electronics, spatial composition and sound design and sound art aesthetics
- Performance, including historically informed performance and contemporary music practices
Qualification, course duration and attendance options
- PhD
- full time36 months
- Campus-based learningis available for this qualification
- part time60 months
- Campus-based learningis available for this qualification
- MLitt by research
- part time36 months
- Campus-based learningis available for this qualification
- full time24 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
- MRes
- part time24 months
- Campus-based learningis available for this qualification
- full time12 months
- Campus-based learningis available for this qualification
Course contact details
- Name
- Enquiries
- gradschool.arts@glasgow.ac.uk