Program Overview

Musicology Master's

Program Overview

The Musicology Master's program at the University of North Texas provides advanced instruction and practice that prepares students for a career in music academia and higher education. The program is designed to help advance scholarly discourse about music in all its cultural and intellectual diversity.

Program Details

• Program Type: Master of Arts (M.A.)
• Format: On Campus
• Estimated Time to Complete: 2-3 years
• Credit Hours: 36

Program Requirements

• Tuition & Aid: [Information not provided]
• How to Apply: [Information not provided]

Why Earn a Degree in Musicology?

Our courses are diverse in their approaches and perspectives, but have common themes of examining music as a set of texts and as a reflection of social practices. Courses are available that focus on Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, 19th- and 20th-century and Latin American music.

Faculty Research Areas

• Source study and archival research
• Historical performance practices
• Hermeneutics and semiotics
• Religious and cultural history
• Printing culture
• Critical studies in politics, gender, and ethnicity
• Editorial techniques and philology

Marketable Skills

• Instruction of musical skills
• Music copying and transcribing
• Public event management assistance
• Book/journal editing
• Advanced data collection and analysis

Program Highlights

• International study abroad programs
• Graduate Association of Musicologists und Theorists (GAMuT)
• Positions as teaching fellows and teaching assistants
• College-supported ensembles, orchestras, choirs, and jazz bands
• Facilities include 300 practice rooms, seven performance venues, and numerous classrooms and rehearsal rooms

What Can You Do With a Degree in Musicology?

Many of our graduates have successful careers as professors or lecturers at colleges and universities in Texas, the U.S., and abroad. Others work with music publishers or in large research libraries.

Musicology Master's Courses

• World Music Analysis (3 hrs)
• Music Cultures of the World (3 hrs)
• Introduction to Musicology (3 hrs)
• Music in Latin America (3 hrs)
• Music in the United States (3 hrs)
• Analytical Techniques for Popular Music (3 hrs)