The Musicology Department provides students across the Eastman community with creatively designed courses that explore the intricacies of musical meaning and aesthetics in widely divergent historical, cultural, and geographical settings. Undergraduates learn to think critically about the history of music in courses that blend temporal breadth with topical focus, while graduate students receive broad training in a range of musical traditions and critical methodologies. We look forward to helping you design an intellectually invigorating course of study in musicology!
Musicology
About Our Program
Offerings
UNDERGRADUATE
Part of Curricular Core
for all Eastman students
GRADUATE
Musicology
(MA)
Musicology
(PhD)
Department Chair
Michael Anderson
Chair, Musicology Department, Professor of Musicology
From improvisation to idiophones, Hildegard to Husa, and Mannheim to Mumbai, the study of music history and ethnomusicology at Eastman encourages the open exploration of musics, musicians, and listeners across time and space. Our courses challenge students to probe how musical meaning is made—and to what ends—and to consider how their own musicianship contributes to this rich, ongoing process. Join us to listen to and critically examine the sound world around us.
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