Overview
The outputs take the form of a portfolio, performance or recording, as well as theoretical work and documentation of the processes by which the music was made (video, photographs, recordings, sketches, studies, web pages, etc). The musical outputs are explicitly linked to the textual material. This link may take various forms: musical material might exemplify, contextualise or expand an idea elaborated in the text, and vice versa. The programme requires candidates to critically evaluate and articulate the relationship of textual to extra-textual media in the formation of musical knowledge.
The format of the PhD thesis consists of a text of not more than 50,000 words, as well as the documentation of the process, contained in a coherent and archivable format (bound thesis plus electronic documents (PDF, webpages, etc.) submitted in memory stick/CD/DVD). Where a thesis relates to live musical performances, documentation in the form of high-quality audio and video recordings is central to the submitted materials.
Typical applicants to this PhD in Creative Music Practice offered by The University of Edinburgh include:
- composer-theorists who wish to carry out research into and practice of particular compositional models
- performers who wish to deepen their practice through musicological research
- computer music composers who wish to develop documented hardware/software systems for their music
- performers with a need to study the techniques and organology of period instruments
- instrument builders/researchers seeking historical techniques found in evidence from the original instruments
Programme Structure
Training and support
- All of our research students benefit from ECA’s interdisciplinary approach and all are assigned two research supervisors. Your second supervisor may be from another discipline within ECA, or from somewhere else within the College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences or elsewhere within the University, according to the expertise required. On occasion more than two supervisors will be assigned, particularly where the degree brings together multiple disciplines.
- All research students undertake a research-methods training course at the beginning of their programme.
- Regular individual meetings with the supervisor provide guidance and focus for the course of research undertaken.
- All students also have access to the University's Postgraduate Skills Training courses.
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 36 months
- Part-time
- 72 months
Start dates & application deadlines
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Disciplines
Music Musicology Liberal Arts View 51 other PhDs in Liberal Arts in United KingdomAcademic requirements
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General requirements
- A UK 2:1 honours degree or its international equivalent.
- You must submit a portfolio as part of your application. Your portfolio should contain either three pieces of composition or examples of work related to your proposed field of study.
- If you do not meet the academic entry requirements, we may still consider your application on the basis of your portfolio and/or relevant professional experience.
Tuition Fee
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26300 GBP/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 26300 GBP per year during 36 months.
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