Master of Music in Musicology in Albuquerque United States | University of New Mexico

The Musicology program adopts an interdisciplinary perspective for examining music within cultural contexts. Participants in this program are encouraged to immerse themselves in deeply contextualized musical scholarship while developing innovative research.
This curriculum embraces diverse academic projects and methodologies. Typical research methods for cultural music studies encompass ethnographic fieldwork, oral tradition documentation, historical archive investigation, analytical music theory, audience reception research, artistic evaluation, gender and queer theory examinations, linguistic discourse studies, and investigations of sonic and performance traditions.

Due to our geographical setting, the program particularly focuses on indigenous, Hispanic, and Anglo-American musical expressions in the southwestern United States. Scholars are urged to collaborate with UNM's specialized regional departments, such as the Latin American and Iberian Institute, American Studies, and Indigenous Studies programs.