PG Research Opportunities in Music
Music offers a wide range of postgraduate research opportunities through our MMus and PhD programmes.
- MMus: a research degree taking 1 year full time or 2 years part-time; it provides a solid foundation for further study at PhD level (more details on the MMus).
- PhD: 3 years full-time, or 5 years part-time (more details on the PhD).
Fees and application information can be found on the How to Apply page.
Please note we also offer a selection of taught Certificates and Diplomas.
Music at Glasgow has a dynamic, supportive but rigorous research culture with a strong sense of community linked by ideas and practice. Our research engages with a number of broad themes:
- Composition & Sonic Arts
- Historical and Cultural Musicology, particularly modernity in musical culture
- Performance & Performance Studies
- Popular Music Studies
- Scottish Music & Musicians
There is a good deal of overlap between themes, and staff activity encompasses a wide range of more specialised fields:
popular music; music and politics; censorship; music and violence; live music in the UK; European art music of the 16th to 20th centuries, particularly J. S. Bach and the German baroque, and 19th and 20th century French music and culture; Debussy and Mallarmé; music and film; music and religion; historically informed performance practice; performance in contemporary culture; musical historiography; Scottish music and musicians, particularly contemporary Scottish music and early fiddle music and accompaniment traditions; Gaelic culture; modernism and modernity; Adorno; new music and globalisation; experimental music theatre; jazz; interdisciplinary analysis and criticism; aesthetics and philosophy of music; media theory; auditory culture; music technology; electroacoustic and computer music; sonic art; improvisation; composition: instrumental, vocal, electroacoustic, spatial, audiovisual, interactive.
New for 2012 - composer workshops with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra
The RSNO will be offering a series of workshops with a sinfonietta sized ensemble starting in November 2012, specifically for postgraduate composition students, leading to possible performance opportunities. This will provide a supportive professional context in which our postgraduate composers can develop their work, and will complement existing ensemble workshop opportunities with groups such as the Viridian Quartet and the student-led contemporary music ensemble.