Medieval and Early Modern Music
Please note: the MA in Music has been withdrawm from 2012.
You can take the modules offered on this programme as part of the MMus programme. Click here to find out more.
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.
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
- Eric Cross (Vivaldi; late baroque music, especially opera; conducting) click here for more
- Kirsten Gibson (early modern English secular song; print culture; gender; historiography and critical theory) click here for more
- Jamie Savan (organology, performance practice) click here for more
- Magnus Williamson (medieval and renaissance music; editing and source studies; performance) click here for more