Program Overview

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Overview

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:

our music research pages

individual staff pages

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 the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. ICMuS also holds regular PhD/MPhil forums for students to discuss their research.

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