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Musicology Ph.D.
Doctoral Degree
Program type:
Major
Format:
On Campus
Est. time to complete:
2-3 years
Credit Hours:
60 (with prior M.S.)90 (with prior B.S.)
Join us in bringing transformative musical experiences to the campus and larger community
through creative and collaborative research, teaching and performances.
The Division of Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology at the University of North
Texas provides advanced instruction and practice that prepares you for a career in
music academia and higher education. Special topic seminars are available, such as
Opera studies, Music in Vienna around 1900 or on how to prepare a Critical Music Edition.
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Request More InfoWhy earn a degree in Musicology?
Our courses are diverse in their approaches and perspectives. However, they 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.
Our faculty members are internationally renowned for their research in a wide range of areas, such as:
- 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
- Pedagogical practices
- Music editing, copying, transcribing, arranging
- Public event management
- Book/journal editing, creating, promoting
- Advance data collection, analysis, and interpretation
Musicology Ph.D. Highlights
International study abroad programs can provide you with an array of learning experiences.
We collaborate with institutions and scholars in Europe, Asia, Africa and South America
for these opportunities.
The Graduate Association of Musicologists und Theorists (GAMuT) is an active group
of our graduate students who organize an annual academic conference, publish the journal
Harmonia, and host regular professional development meetings, faculty and student
research presentations and social gatherings.
Positions as teaching fellows and teaching assistants are available and allow you
to gain hands-on experience. Teaching fellows usually teach two classes a week, while
teaching assistants contribute to a class taught by a professor through technical
management or lab-teaching and review.
The college supports many ensembles, orchestras, choirs and jazz bands that have released
numerous recordings, earned Grammy Award nominations and performed throughout the
world.
Facilities include 300 practice rooms, seven performance venues (including Winspear
Hall at the Murchison Performing Arts Center and Voertman Hall), numerous classrooms,
rehearsal rooms, computer labs and an intermedia theater.
Musicology students have collaborated in editing works by Claudio Monteverdi, which
have been published by the distinguished German publisher Bärenreiter.
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 Ph.D. Courses You Could Take
Music History Pedagogy (1.5 hrs)
Approaches to teaching in the music history classroom, including syllabi, innovative
pedagogy, and teaching portfolio. Taught by specialists in the field.
History of Music Theory I (3 hrs)
Theoretical systems and treatises from antiquity to the late 15th century and analysis
of related compositions.
Introduction to Musicology (3 hrs)
Critical assessment of current issues, methodologies and themes in musicological research.
History of Opera (3 hrs)
In-depth examination, at the graduate level, of selected topics in the history of
opera.
Western Music History, 1900 to the Present (3 hrs)
Current historical, analytical and methodological issues regarding music, 1900 to
the present. Combination of lectures, source study and writing.
Proseminar in Musicology (3 hrs)
Practical application of musicological techniques to selected research.
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