48 monthsProgramme duration
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Programme overview
Main Subject
Music
Degree
PhD
Study Level
PHD
Study Mode
On Campus
Deepen your knowledge of the main trends in music research by specializing in a specific and innovative subject. The objective of the doctorate in music is to contribute to the advancement of knowledge in the discipline, while integrating you into contemporary scientific and musicological debates. The training also allows you to consolidate your oral and written communication skills, particularly encouraging the transmission and dissemination of knowledge.
The program covers a wide range of perspectives for the study of music:
- Historical musicology
- Music analysis and theory
- Semiology of music, philosophy of music, musical aesthetics,
- Ethnomusicology, anthropology of music
- Sociomusicology
- Music mediation
- Cinemusicology, ludomusicology
- Cognitive and experimental musicology, musical acoustics, psychoacoustics, biomusicology
- Digital musicology, musical computing
- Organology
- Analysis of creative processes in music
- Research-creation (interpretation, improvisation, composition) as well as any interdisciplinary approach at the intersection of these disciplines and other related disciplines (visual arts, cinema, literature, political sciences, sociology, psychology, computer science, movement sciences, etc. .)
Programme overview
Main Subject
Music
Degree
PhD
Study Level
PHD
Study Mode
On Campus
Deepen your knowledge of the main trends in music research by specializing in a specific and innovative subject. The objective of the doctorate in music is to contribute to the advancement of knowledge in the discipline, while integrating you into contemporary scientific and musicological debates. The training also allows you to consolidate your oral and written communication skills, particularly encouraging the transmission and dissemination of knowledge.
The program covers a wide range of perspectives for the study of music:
- Historical musicology
- Music analysis and theory
- Semiology of music, philosophy of music, musical aesthetics,
- Ethnomusicology, anthropology of music
- Sociomusicology
- Music mediation
- Cinemusicology, ludomusicology
- Cognitive and experimental musicology, musical acoustics, psychoacoustics, biomusicology
- Digital musicology, musical computing
- Organology
- Analysis of creative processes in music
- Research-creation (interpretation, improvisation, composition) as well as any interdisciplinary approach at the intersection of these disciplines and other related disciplines (visual arts, cinema, literature, political sciences, sociology, psychology, computer science, movement sciences, etc. .)
Admission Requirements
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https://esp.umontreal.ca/programmes-et-stages/etudes-de-2e-et-3e-cycles/equivalences-internationales/#c680601
https://admission.umontreal.ca/en/who-are-you/foreign-student/
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