School of Music

Programme Manager: Dr Bryan White
Email: b.white@leeds.ac.uk

The MMus Musicology programme facilitates movement from general methodological concerns towards greater specialisation, whilst preserving some flexibility and student choice. Particularly distinctive is the balance struck between topics and approaches traditionally regarded as 'historical musicology' and those associated with the 'critical' or 'new musicology' movement since the 1900s. For their main focus of study, students choose either the Dissertation option (where they will be supervised by a staff member whose research specialisms reflect as closely as possible the subject of study) or an Editorial Project, involving the transcription of original source materials, chosen in consultation with a project supervisor. In addition, students choose between two core musicology modules, Issues in Contemporary Musicology and Editing and Archival Skills.

All taught postgraduate students also attend a core research skills module, Introduction to Musical Scholarship. The remaining programme credits are chosen from a wide-ranging menu of optional modules, allowing students the flexibility to tailor their studies to their own individual enthusiasms and interests.

On successful completion of this programme students should be able to:

Articulate their particular research interests within the context of musical scholarship
Demonstrate skill in presenting critical arguments, in written and oral form.
Design and deliver a Dissertation or Editorial Project with clear research outcomes.
Adapt a range of presentational skills appropriate to their research interests.
Engage with wider debates in terms of critical or historical approaches to musicological topics.
Demonstrate ability as an effective independent learner.

MUSI 5162 Dissertation (60cr)

c.15,000 words.

OR

MUSI 5462 Editorial Project(60cr)

Project & commentary, equivalent to c.15,000 words.

MUSI 5430M Editing & Archival Studies (30cr)

Transcription & commentary (20%)
Minor critical edition (20%)
Reading tasks
Archival document/extended critical edition (60%)

OR

MUSI 5330M Issues in Contemporary Musicology (30cr)

4,500-word essay (80%)
Ppresentation & report (20%)

MUSI 5030M Introduction to Musical Scholarship (30cr)

Bibliography assignment (50%)
Presentation Skills (50%)

Students choose an additional 60 credits from the following options (subject to availability), to make up a total of 180 credits - either one 60cr module, or two 30cr modules:

60-credit modules

Dissertation
Portfolio of Original Compositions
Editorial Project
Final Recital
Music Technology Project

30-credit modules

Issues in Contemporary Musicology
Composition Studies
Short Dissertation
Computer Music Studies
Applied Performance
Short Recital
Editing & Archival Studies
Studies in Historical performance
Individual Project