MA Music: Medieval Music pathway
The Medieval Music pathway combines a focus on methods in historical musicology with an emphasis on the Middle Ages, an area in which Bristol University specialises.
All MA in Music students take an introductory course in Research Skills for Musicians during the first semester. Source Study introduces students to different categories of musicological sources and discusses issues arising from these. It acquaints students with the nature of source materials for different repertoires and with the ways in which these may inform performance or musicological approaches to those repertoires.
Two "Readings and Repertoires" units introduce students to a wide variety of topics and approaches. Every discipline has its ‘state of the art’. The intellectual positions, debates and contentions, creative and interpretive practices of today are founded both on primary sources – which might come from a wide range of historical and cultural origins – and on the cumulative network of understandings and responses leading to the present day. These foundational units build your knowledge and understanding and engagement in that state of the art.
Together with these mandatory units, all Musicology pathway students are offered a choice of optional units in the Music Department.
The pathway helps you to develop skills in a wide variety of musicological methods, theories and approaches, and provides a balanced and comprehensive training for those who wish to pursue future research degrees.
Main features
- Weekly research seminar series given by resident and guest speakers in the Music Department as well as regular seminars in the Centre for Medieval Studies.
- Specialist supervision.
- Units tailored to provide the grounding for further study.
- Emphasis on small-group discussion.
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