MRes Music

Music at Glasgow has a dynamic, supportive but rigorous research culture with a strong sense of community linked by ideas and practice.OVERVIEWIf your work is centred on cultural or historical musicology, this provides great opportunity to support your main thesis with performance, edition or other forms of musical practice. If you are a composer, improvisor, or sonic artist, this provides a great opportunity to develop your creative work and present this as a substantial piece of practice research.Topics in which we would welcome postgraduate research include:Composition, including experimental music, intercultural aspects of composition and music and the moving imageHistorical and cultural musicology, including philosophy and aesthetics of music, music in popular culture, music and politics and music and modernism.Sonic arts and audiovisual practice, including live electronics, spatial composition and sound design and sound art aestheticsPerformance, including historically informed performance and contemporary music practices.