Program Overview

Musicology Program

The Musicology program is a discipline that studies music in its multiple forms, manifestations, and creations, past and present, analyzing repertoires, behaviors, and musical practices in different cultural, geographical, and social contexts.

Program Description

The Master's Degree in Musicology offers advanced and interdisciplinary training, aimed at exploring musical practices in their relationships with the arts, media, and processes of cultural transformation, and providing critical tools to understand and interpret the role of music within society.

Program Objectives

The objective of the program is to train highly qualified figures in the field of musical studies, equipped with solid theoretical, methodological, and operational skills. These skills are applicable in various professional fields:

• Research in the musical field
• Protection, conservation, and enhancement of musical and sound heritage
• Cultural and artistic planning
• Music publishing
• Teaching
• Cultural mediation and dissemination of musical culture, also within entertainment institutions and media

Program Structure

The training offer is divided into two paths:

• Musicological path, focused on Western music of written tradition, with particular attention to historical, aesthetic, and performative contexts in which it has developed
• Ethnomusicological path, focused on the analysis of musical practices of cultures with a predominantly oral tradition and on music conveyed through media and contemporary technologies, in an intercultural and global perspective Both paths value a critical and interdisciplinary approach to the study of music, with attention to perspectives offered by cultural history, forms of musical contemporaneity, and dimensions of multimedia, digital, and soundscape

Program Outcomes

At the end of the training path, graduates will have developed the ability to analyze and interpret musical texts, performative practices, and contexts of fruition in an autonomous and critical way, placing them within a broader cultural framework. They will be able to enter with competence in the sectors of academic research, musical organization and entertainment, conservation and enhancement of sound heritage, teaching, and cultural planning.