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Music & Sonic Arts at Queen’s provides one of most diverse and active research environments for music and music-related study in the UK or Ireland. Seventeen high-profile academics and a community of forty research students are engaged in projects ranging from Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth-century music topics, through a wide range of compositional and creative practice-based work, to ground-breaking projects exploring technical research applications at SARC.
The School has been highly rated in the last two Research Assessment Exercises in the UK and has been at the forefront of a number of key musicological and creative research activities in the last twenty years.
Musicology
Eighteenth-century studies is particularly well founded with four full-time academics working and publishing extensively on music and theatre, music and colonialism, dance, Handel, Bach and Mozart. Queen’s is also the host institution which initiated the internationally-respected Bach Bibliography and has a lively interdisciplinary Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CECS) with regular guest seminars. Nineteenth and early twentieth-century studies are also strongly represented with emphases on English music, in particular the life and work of Elgar, Czech music, in particular the life and work of Dvorak and Martinu, Irish music in the nineteenth century and the history and sociology of traditional music, and Strauss. Nationalism and constructions of English music in the twentieth century are also important as research focuses. Click here for more information.
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Composition & Creative Practice
Composition and creative practice is also extensively cultivated by the six composers based in the School. Their expertise covers note-based composition, electroacoustic music through to live and generative performance activities. Click here for more information.
Research students from both these areas become part of a lively research community with regular seminars from well-known musicologists and composers (recent guests have included the scholars Trevor Herbert, David Cooper, Paul Rodmell, Robin Leaver and John Irving and the composers Philip Cashian, Judith Weir and Stephen Pratt). The School also has an enviable track record in hosting major international conferences, including the Biennial International Baroque Conference (2010) and Music in 19th-Century Britain (2011). The School will also be holding the annual Society for Musicology in Ireland’s (SMI) annual postgraduate conference on 27 and 28 January, 2011.
Prospective PhD students are advised to contact a member of staff working in their area of interest before submitting an application. For more information concerning staff research expertise please visit the School website.
For general enquiries about applying for PhD study in Musicology and Composition & Creative Practice please contact Professor Ian Woodfield, i.woodfield@qub.ac.uk.
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PhD in Ethnomusicology
PhD degrees in Ethnomusicology at Queen’s are offered in the School of History and Anthropology and the School of Creative Arts covering abroad spectrum of research areas such as: music in religion and ritual; music in politics; music and emotions; medical ethnomusicology; local musicking; popular music; and organology, among other topics. The regional expertise of our staff is extensive, with special focus on Europe, the Americas, South East Asia and Australia.
Prospective PhD students are advised to contact a member of staff working in their area of interest before submitting an application. For more information concerning staff research expertise please click here.
For general enquiries about applying for PhD study in Ethnomusicology please contact Professor Ian Woodfield, iwoodfield@qub.ac.uk (School of Creative Arts) or Professor Fiona Magowan, f.magowan@qub.ac.uk (School of History and Anthropology).
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Sonic Arts
Research at SARC Sonic Arts Research Centre is focused on novel ideas in musical composition, signal processing, internet technology and digital hardware.
The School has a lively community of PhD researchers working in areas of musicology, music and social history, dance, composition (note based and electroacoustic) and music technology; a number of research projects have a strongly interdisciplinary nature and interaction between students is encouraged and valued. .
The Sonic Arts Research Centre is currently involved in six key research areas. The links below will take you to each of these areas on the SARC website:
Cultural and Critical Aspects of Sonic Art
For general enquiries about applying for Ph.D. study at SARC, please contact Dr. Pedro Rebelo- p.rebelo@qub.ac.uk
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