UCD School of Music

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POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMME

The UCD School of Music enjoys an unrivalled reputation in Ireland for the quality of its musical research and the innovation of its graduate teaching programmes. Its teaching staff, both collectively and individually, have been pioneers in the development of musicology in Ireland, and the School has actively promoted strong connections with other University and third-level Departments in Ireland and with Universities in the U.K., Europe and North America. This means that our graduate students have immediate access to research programmes, organizations and conferences which are at the cutting edge of musical scholarship and which enhance the intellectual development and professional advancement of UCD students as they embark on fourth-level musicological studies.

Here are some examples of how the UCD School of Music (and its predecessor, the Department of Music at UCD) have been (and continue to be) involved domestically and internationally in the development of musicology:

We offered the first taught Master’s programme in musicology in an Irish university in 1992.

We jointly organized the first international musicological conference in the history of the state in 1995.

We were instrumental in founding the Society for Musicology in Ireland in 2003 (www.musicologyireland.com) and ICTM Ireland in 2005 (www.ictmireland.eu) and we maintain many close links with these organizations.

Our graduates in the Master in Musicology Programme (MMus) have proceeded to doctoral studies in Cambridge, Munich, Manchester, Leeds, London, as well as in many Irish universities.

The UCD School of Music is represented on the editorial boards of the following publications: Current Musicology (New York); Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland (Cork); Music Analysis (Oxford); The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (London); Frankfurter Zeitschrift fuer Musikwissenschaft (Hamburg); International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music (Zagreb), Irish Musical Studies (Dublin); Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland (Maynooth).

We hosted the first international music analysis conference to take place in Ireland in 2005.

We hosted the first conference on Chinese music to take place in Ireland in October 2007.

We hosted the fifteenth international conference on nineteenth-century music in 2008 which took place outside the United Kingdom for the first time on that occasion.

We hosted the first annual conference of ICTM Ireland in February 2009.

The School offers several different pathways for graduate studies. The Master in Musicology (MMus) is a taught programme with a strong research element that can be studied with an emphasis on Historical Musicology or on Ethnomusicology. Both MMus programmes can be finished within one year. The Master of Literature (MLitt) is a two-year research degree while the PhD can be finished within three or four years. Furthermore, the School is the intellectual home of several postdoctoral researchers holding IRCHSS postdoctoral fellowships.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

The research interests of the School are extremely varied and wide-ranging, which means that the courses offered are correspondingly stimulating and attractive to students. Current research topics include:

African-American Music

The Symphonies of Anton Bruckner

The Music of Györgi Ligeti

Nineteenth-Century Sonata Forms

Musics of South Asia

Medieval Vocal Music

Musical Discourse in Early Eighteenth-Century Europe

Music and Cultural History in Ireland

Music in Film and Literature

Irish Traditional Music

Music and Art in the 20th Century

Theories of Musical Genre

Music in Western and Non-Western Religions

CONTACT DETAILS AND HOW TO APPLY

If you would like to apply for the MMus programme, please complete the online application. The deadline for applications is 31st July. If you have any problems completing the application please contact the Administrator of the School of Music.

To discuss an application to the PhD programme, please email or write to the Administrator of the School, who will arrange for you to consult an academic staff member.

Administrator
UCD School of Music
Belfield
Dublin 4
Telephone (01) 716 8178
Email: music@ucd.ie