Master of Music Kings College London, UK

This course offers you the opportunity to consolidate and expand your knowledge of music in a world-leading university.

In our Musicology & Ethnomusicology pathway, you can explore a wide range of music and approaches, while  learning advanced skills in writing and research. Our Composition pathway allows you to develop your compositional skills and explore other areas of music studies. You can also select from a wide range of modules across Arts & Humanities at King’s.

Key benefits

• Intensively taught course covering a wide range of specialised topics.
• Provides a foundation for further research focusing on current approaches and advanced techniques.
• Musicology & Ethnomusicology students choose from historical, sociocultural and theoretical modules taught by distinguished staff.
• Composition students benefit from one-to-one lessons and participation in composition seminars and have the opportunity to hear their works performed by visiting professional musicians.
• Option to take modules in other Arts & Humanities departments at King’s, or at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).
• Located in the heart of London’s music scene, with two major opera companies (Royal Opera Covent Garden and English National Opera) and two major arts centres (South Bank Centre—location of the Royal Festival Hall—and Barbican) within walking distance.

On this course you may specialise in either Composition or Musicology & Ethnomusicology. (Please note, we do not offer a Performance pathway.) We encourage you to choose modules that reflect your particular interests, and up to a third of your optional module choices may be from other Arts & Humanities departments, meaning you can build a broad and truly individual study pathway.

Our specialist modules will teach you current approaches to academic writing on music as well as advanced techniques for research and composition. At the end of your course, you will submit a special study – either a dissertation or a substantial work of 8-15 minutes in duration (for composers) – for which we will give you one-to-one supervision.