Musicology

Entry requirements

You'll need a 2:1 in music or a combined degree with a substantial music component.

Other qualifications may be acceptable depending on your background.

Months of entry

September

Course content

This course offers you the opportunity to engage with a range of specialist areas including Mozart, music of the classical period, Renaissance music, music and visual culture, eighteenth and nineteenth-century style, the concerto genre and the Broadway musical.

Course themes can include gender, philosophy, culture and aesthetics, and may involve an examination of history, composition, performance and reception.

You will engage with how music is created, disseminated and received, via a range of methodologies and often through interaction with other disciplines.

Teaching
Teaching is through seminars, reading group, graduate study days and individual tutorials.

Assessment
Assessment is through essays, short presentations and a dissertation.

Please see our University website for the most up-to-date course information: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/postgraduate/taught/courses

Information for international students

Overall IELTS grade of 6.5 with a minimum of 5.5 in each component, or equivalent.

Fees and funding

University and faculty funding is available each year. The closing date for applications is mid-January. The department has a small number of tuition studentships available. The closing date for these is the end of April. You can also apply for a small grant to support your postgraduate research project.