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Graduate Program
Our graduate program aims to produce well-rounded musicologists who will have the skills and knowledge to teach the discipline at the highest professional level and to produce original research of quality and significance. Unlike many other such programs, we define the field of "musicology" broadly to embrace its traditional sub-disciplines—whether cultural studies, ethnomusicology, history, or theory—and we practice the discipline across the full range of periods and repertories. While specialization forms an inevitable (and desirable) part of professional development, we also believe in the cross-fertilization made possible by confronting different methods and materials, thereby breaking down common disciplinary boundaries.
Our first-year graduate course "Resources and Methods of Musicology" illustrates some of the ways in which we practice an integrated approach to the field. The course unfolds in a series of three-week units, each led by a different member of the faculty, each focusing on a particular methodological issue or sub-discipline, such as historical method, field research, source studies, analysis, and critical theory. By exposing students to the widest range of approaches during their first year of study, we hope to prepare them to shape the future of a fast-changing field.