PhD in Music - Musicology

University of Sheffield

Musicology focuses on historical, critical, stylistic, analytical and aesthetic aspects of music. As well as work on a single composer or group of composers, musicological research can include interdisciplinary research (on music and literature, music and art, and music and drama/dance, for example), as well as study of the social and historical context of music (related to a composer, genre, time, place). The reception history of music, examining the genesis of a particular work or group of works (using primary and secondary sources) and the detailed analysis of music also fall within the remit of musicology.