DPhil in Music - 36 months
36 monthsProgramme duration
74,730 GBPTuition Fee/year
Jan-2000Starting Month
Programme overview
Main Subject
Performing Arts
Degree
Other
Study Level
PHD
This degree specialized in musicology or composition and awarded to candidates upon successful completion of a substantial original contribution to these fields prepared over the course of usually three or four years for full-time students, or seven or eight years for part-time students. It aims to provide a wide range of research skills as well as in-depth knowledge, understanding and expertise in candidates’ chosen field of research. Candidates are expected to have a master’s degree in music or equivalent before embarking on the DPhil, or they may first undertake one of the MSt programmes in music at Oxford. Areas of research represented in the faculty include: historical musicological topics from the Middle Ages to the present music theory and analysis composition ethnomusicology psychology of music performance studies aesthetics of music popular music critical and empirical musicology
Programme overview
Main Subject
Performing Arts
Degree
Other
Study Level
PHD
This degree specialized in musicology or composition and awarded to candidates upon successful completion of a substantial original contribution to these fields prepared over the course of usually three or four years for full-time students, or seven or eight years for part-time students. It aims to provide a wide range of research skills as well as in-depth knowledge, understanding and expertise in candidates’ chosen field of research. Candidates are expected to have a master’s degree in music or equivalent before embarking on the DPhil, or they may first undertake one of the MSt programmes in music at Oxford. Areas of research represented in the faculty include: historical musicological topics from the Middle Ages to the present music theory and analysis composition ethnomusicology psychology of music performance studies aesthetics of music popular music critical and empirical musicology
Admission Requirements
A first-class or strong upper second-class undergraduate degree with honours (or equivalent international qualifications), as a minimum, in music or related fields.
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