Music Postgraduate studies in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Develop your expertise and enhance your career prospects at a world-leading centre of music teaching and research.
Located in the heart of London close to the capital’s music venues, King’s offers an intensive one-year taught MMus in an internationally renowned department. WHY STUDY WITH US?
• The Music Department
draws students from all over the world, attracted by the rigorous training and the international reputation of the faculty. • You’ll benefit from small seminar teaching, composition workshops, reading groups and one-to-one supervision, exposure to a wide range of approaches to the study and creation of music, and an international community of scholars and students.
• You may choose to take
some masters-level modules at the School of Oriental & African Studies or in other Arts and Humanities departments at King’s. • We select outstanding applicants, and have an excellent placement record in academia and the creative arts.
DEGREES OFFERED The MMus degree is available in Musicology and Ethnomusicology, and in Composition, offering you a large variety of seminars in Music and other Humanities disciplines with scope for individual research and composition. The course is ideal preparation for a PhD.
For more information about our degrees and staff members visit: www.kcl.ac.uk/music
King’s offers a three-year PhD in an
DEGREES OFFERED
internationally renowned department, with a
Our PhD in Musicology, Ethnomusicology, Composition or Performance Studies is examined by dissertation or by a portfolio of composition with commentary. Performance Studies students may present performance-based elements and a written thesis.
vibrant and innovative research culture, in the heart of the capital. ABOUT OUR RESEARCH
• King’s has one of the largest
communities of postgraduate research and composition students in the country. • Many King’s PhDs go on to post-doctoral fellowships and careers in leading universities in the UK, the USA, and elsewhere. • Our key research strengths are music and cultural history from the medieval period to the twenty-first century; composition and performance studies; opera, jazz and film music; the
ethnomusicology of South Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. Supervision is provided by the world’s leading authorities. • Weekly colloquia, regular conferences, reading groups and more specialised forums bring staff, graduates and visitors together for discussion and debate throughout the year. • We are home to several research centres, adding further to the richness of our environment.
Our Wednesday colloquia, which serve as the hub of the department’s social life, bring leading musicologists and composers to King’s to discuss their work. We offer academic and professional development workshops, preparing students for careers. The London Arts & Humanities Partnership provides funding on a competitive basis, and coordinates professional training for musicologists and composers across a consortium comprising King’s, UCL and the Institute of Musical Research at London’s School of Advanced Studies.
The Music Department at King’s offers a constantly supportive atmosphere for me to develop my skills Lawrence, current PhD
For more information about funding: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/pg/funding/sources
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