MRes in Music in Glasgow United Kingdom | University of Glasgow

Glasgow's music program fosters a vibrant, collaborative yet demanding research environment with a tight-knit community united through ideas and creative practice.
The Music PhD program at Glasgow involves a 3-year full-time or 5-year part-time research journey culminating in either a thesis potentially complemented by practical work, or a portfolio of creative work accompanied by written analysis. For those focusing on cultural or historical musicology, this structure offers excellent possibilities to enhance your primary research with performances, editions, or other musical applications. Creative practitioners like composers, improvisers, or sound artists can significantly expand their artistic output and showcase it as meaningful practice-based research.
Areas of study include composition (encompassing experimental music, cross-cultural composition, and music for visual media), historical/cultural musicology (covering musical philosophy, popular culture studies, political musicology, and modernist movements), sonic arts (including electronic performance, spatial audio, and sound installation theory), and performance practice (spanning period performance techniques and contemporary performance methods).