department of musicology music. - university of sheffield/file/musicology.pdf · at sheffield we...
TRANSCRIPT
At Sheffield we have a great breadth of expertise in the history and analysis and Western music - an area of study known as musicology.
You will explore topics from the troubadours of medieval France to the Broadway musical, in modules informed by cutting-edge staff research.
ModulesMusicology modules will develop
your capacity to examine music
critically and analytically, as well
as building essential research and
writing skills.
• History of Western Music
• Pop Music Studies
• Analytical Approaches to Music
• The Movie Musical
• Mozart in Vienna
• The Hollywood Musical
• Music, Power and Desire at the
Renaissance Courts
• The Troubadours
• Music and Visual Culture
• Studies in Music since 1945
Musicology
Career opportunities
Former students of Musicolgy now
work in a range of fields, including
• Music education
• Concert programming
• Festival organising
• Performing
• University lecturing and research
To find out more about Musicology at Sheffield, visit the Department of Music website at www.sheffield.ac.uk/music
DepartmentOfMusic.
Staff activities
Simon Keefe ran eight study days at Kings Place in London as part of a year-long ‘Mozart Unwrapped’ festival in 2011 and published a book on Mozart’s Requiem in 2012.
Dominic McHugh’s research on Broadway musicals has been featured in programme notes for the Proms and a major television documentary, as well as in his book Loverly: The Life and Times of “My Fair Lady”.
Tim Shephard was the featured speaker at a recent event at the National Gallery, London, on Leonardo da Vinci and music, and also appeared in the National Gallery’s podcast.