MA in Music: Pathway in Medieval and Early Modern Music
The history, performance, editing and theorising of early music is a very significant part of our research at ICMuS. In our teaching we place particular emphasis in exploring the interactions between musical repertories and their contexts. In the case of early music, this includes a strong interest in the history of musical materials, performance, and the construction of identity. Staff at ICMuS have specialisms in source studies, notation and editing, brass and keyboard music, gender, English music from 1300 to 1800, the Italian Renaissance, music and theatre.
This pathway includes a module of music research training, the core module and a dissertation. Beyond these core elements there is a wide choice of modules that deal specifically with recent methodological developments in the field.
Modules on this pathway
- The core module for this pathway is ‘Early Modern Musical Materials: Sources and Performances’ in which you evaluate the relationships between the design and functions of a variety of musical materials from the middle ages to the late Baroque periods
- Your dissertation will be on a topic related to the study or performance of music from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Alternatively it is possible to produce a critical edition and commentary
- Elective modules on this pathway include
- Notation and Editing project
- Music and Historiography
- Any other Masters elective module
- It is also possible to choose from final-year advanced undergraduate modules (see below); recent modules have included The Eton Choirbook, John Dowland, Music, Performance and Power in Renaissance Italy, Vivaldi, Monteverdi in Context)
Some facts about the teaching of medieval and early modern music at ICMuS
- We have staff working in range of musics from these periods
- We cover a range of methodological approaches to these periods
- Our research profile is squarely committed to testing the boundaries of our discipline (see here for more)
- We host an international seminar series at which specialists from all over the UK and beyond visit ICMuS and talk about their work
Staff teaching and researching in this area
- Ian Biddle (historiography) click here for more
- Eric Cross (Vivaldi; late baroque music, especially opera; conducting) click here for more
- Vic Gammon (British and North American vernacular musics, history and performance) click here for more
- Kirsten Gibson (early modern English secular song; print culture; gender; historiography and critical theory) click here for more
- Magnus Williamson (medieval and renaissance music; editing and source studies; performance) click here for more
- Richard Wistreich (Performance practice; class, identity, gender and voice in early modern Italy) click here for more