4 Part time PhD Programmes in Music in United Kingdom for 2024

Staff and students of the Department of Music pursue research on a wide range of subjects, mainly but not exclusively focused on the music of Asia and Africa. Whatever its regional origin, music is studied as a cultural phenomenon, and also from analytical and historical perspectives. Instrumental and vocal, sacred and secular, art and popular, traditional and modern musical forms are all of equal interest. Research methods employed include fieldwork, interview, archive research, recording and filming, performance, transcription and analysis, and composition.

Goldsmiths’ Department of Music has a lively and varied research base, large postgraduate community, active performing tradition, and offers proximity to London’s resources.

This scheme is suitable for graduates in music, especially in the fields of historical musicology, music aesthetics, theory and analysis.

This programme offers an opportunity to study with leading composers with internationally regarded expertise and experience in contemporary music composition.