Music MRes

University of Nottingham

Research overview The department offers exceptional research-led teaching, with inspiring facilities for performance, composition, music technology, and musicology. The department benefits currently from a partnership with the BBC Concert Orchestra, through which world-class performance, composition, and production experiences are offered. The Music Department enjoys a close relationship with Lakeside Arts, the University of Nottingham’s public arts programme. The MRes offers four distinct specialisms, each supported by world-leading experts: • Musicology • Composition (acoustic or digital) • Performance • Music technology The Department of Music has world-leading expertise (64percentage outputs rated 4, REF 2021) and research synergies across the following areas: • Popular music, film music, electronic music, traditions of music and dance, musical theatre, opera, jazz, sacred music, 19th-c. orchestral music, early and medieval music, twentieth-century music • Performance studies, performance practice, improvisation, embodiment • Computer music, mixed reality, AI, coding, audio engineering, sound art, music technologies • Acoustic, acousmatic, electroacoustic, electronic, and digital composition • Practice-based, archival, digital, material, analytical methodologies • Geographies of Western Europe (esp. Britain, Germany, Italy), North America, Asia • Politics, identity, environment, ethnicity, mobility and exchange • Transnational, colonial, postcolonial perspectives • Social justice • Community music • Social practice Participatory arts

Department of Music