Music postgraduate courses

Masters and PhD Programmes in Music
Music at Southampton offers a range of opportunities for postgraduate study. Taught Masters courses lead to two different degrees, the MMus and the MRes. The MMus features three pathways - musicology, performance, or composition - leading towards a final project (dissertation, recital or portfolio). Units may be combined across the pathways to design a course that fits your needs. The MRes is more sharply focussed on developing your skills as a researcher and writer, requiring a more substantial dissertation than the MMus. For more detailed course and unit descriptions, follow the links to the left.

Southampton offers expert doctoral supervision in composition and in a wide range of topics in musicology and performance-led research. See our postgraduate research page to find out more.

The gateway to another place- Postgraduate study in music at the University of Southampton

For performers or musicologists wanting to study music from before 1800 in a broad cultural context, we offer an two interdisciplinary MAs through our humanities research centres: the MA in Medieval and Renaissance Culture, through the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Culture, and the MA in 18th-Century Studies, through the Southampton Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies. These programmes offer valuable opportunities for students to study music alongside the literature, material culture, buildings and landscape, intellectual history, and politics of the period.

See our How to Apply page for information on application procedures for all our postgraduate programmes. We offer a large number of studentships to support Masters and doctoral level studies in Music across the whole range of the discipline, including performance and composition as well as musicology. For details see our postgraduate studentship page. Candidates for postgraduate courses are also eligible to apply for Southampton's vocal, instrumental and accompanying vocal, instrumental and accompanying scholarships to help support their studies.