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The Music Department has a staff of eight full-time and two half-time academics, all of whom are active in teaching and research. Their work relates to Western and non-Western music from the Renaissance to the present day. The Department was rated as 'excellent' in the 1994 Teaching Quality Assessment, and was awarded a '4' in the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise.

For undergraduate study, the Department provides a suite of complementary courses dealing principally (but not exclusively) with the repertory of Western music during the last 500 years. Music also features in the Arts Faculty's interdisciplinary courses.

Particular areas of research include producing scholarly editions of musical works, historical musicology (especially relating to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries), and theoretical investigation of music as an aesthetic and social practice.

Follow the links above for more information about department staff, their research interests and selected publications; current and planned courses and qualifications; details of postgraduate research and other items of interest.

16 May 2009
The Music Department was delighted to confer the honorary award of Doctor of the University on Sir Mark Elder, for Services to the Arts. Sir Mark Elder is Music Director of the Hallé Orchestra and works regularly with the world's leading orchestras and opera companies.

18 April 2009
Professor Donald Burrows presented Julian Bream with the honorary degree of Doctor of the University for Services to the Arts. Julian Bream has been acknowledged as one of the most remarkable guitarists of the twentieth century, winning many international awards.

updated October 2009