Master of Music in Musicology

University of Memphis

Degrees offered are Bachelor of Music Music History Master of Music Musicology and Doctor of Philosophy Historical Musicology Southern Regional Studies. . Our Ph.D. curriculum in historical musicology is a traditionally conceived program that prepares students for historical research in music at the highest level. It incorporates a minor in a humane field outside music and culminates with a doctoral dissertation. The musicology faculty members have specialized strengths and interests in renaissance music particularly renaissance Spain eighteenth century music particularly in the German speaking lands convent music music of nineteenth century America organology and performance practice of all periods. Recent seminars have explored the Las Huelgas codex Cristóbal de Morales music and daily life in eighteenth century Vienna music and rhetoric in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the operas of W.A. Mozart.