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.