Music in Civilisation and Society

Study Type

graduate

Admission semester

Summer and Winter Semester

Focus

Ancient History of Music, History of Music from the 18th to the early 20th Centuries

Target group

Graduates of a relevant Bachelor's degree course in the field of Musicology or a comparable German or international degree with an overall grade of at least 2.5.
Certificate of academic degree with a proportion of music-historical modules or module parts of at least 60 credit points according to ECTS qualify for admission.

Annotation

The MA Music in Culture and Society is a distinguished Master's programme in musicology in which you learn to understand, analyse and interpret music as an integral part of various cultural practices, processes and communities. Rarely has the role of art and music in society been as sustainable as it is today in the context of post-colonial reappraisal, climate-political activism or cultural-political appropriation. In our Master's programme, we consider questions of social and cultural participation, with gender aspects, with practised and historically traditional patterns of perception and musical practices, with canonisation and attribution of meaning as instruments of cultural power, or with music as a cultural mediator between people and their environment. In this way, you will acquire skills in highly topical research discourses, which at the same time prepare you for challenges and problems increasingly needed today for a professional activity in the cultural sector. In addition to its special focus on content, the degree course is characterised by a structured and, at the same time, individual mentoring programme as well as a special participation in the life of the institute through our participatory principle.

Admission modus

Without admission restriction

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Admission requirements

Tuition fees

Currently, the German federal state of Hesse does not charge tuition fees.