Courses in musicology
Below is a list of our courses and programs with links to the course catalogue, where you can read more about them. It is also possible to filter courses according to different parameters, such as campus or online courses and undergraduate or graduate level.
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Analysing Music without a Score, 7.5 credits (5MU073)
A course in music analysis from aural perspectives, with aurally based methods and analytical texts.
- Course, Uppsala, Spring 2023, On-campus learning, 50%, English
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Analysing Notated Music, 7.5 credits (5MU069)
Notation is used in music to achieve a certain audible result and has enabled complex and sophisticated structures in the development of Western music. Analysis of scores of notation is thus a very powerful theoretical and methodological ...
- Course, Uppsala, Spring 2024, On-campus learning, 50%, English
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Bachelor's Programme in Musicology, 180 credits (HMU1K)
- Programme, Uppsala, Autumn 2022, On-campus learning, 100%, Swedish
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Baroque Counterpoint 1, 15 credits (5MU045)
This course covers keyboard music from the 18th century. The instrumental music from the Baroque relies on contrapuntal models which were common to all musical theory and practice for nearly a century. In the course examples and case ...
- Course, Flexible, Autumn 2022, Distance learning, 50%, Swedish
- Course, Flexible, Spring 2023, Distance learning, 50%, Swedish
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Baroque Counterpoint 1, 15 credits (5MU045)
This course covers keyboard music from the 18 th century. The instrumental music from the Baroque relies on contrapuntal models which were common to all musical theory and practice for nearly a century. In the course examples and ...
- Course, Flexible, Autumn 2023, Distance learning, 50%, Swedish
- Course, Flexible, Spring 2024, Distance learning, 50%, Swedish
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Baroque Counterpoint 2, 15 credits (5MU046)
This course covers keyboard music from the 18th century. The instrumental music from the Baroque relies on contrapuntal models which were common to all musical theory and practice for nearly a century. In the course examples and case ...
- Course, Flexible, Autumn 2022, Distance learning, 50%, Swedish
- Course, Flexible, Spring 2023, Distance learning, 50%, Swedish
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Baroque Counterpoint 2, 15 credits (5MU046)
This course covers keyboard music from the 18 th century. The instrumental music from the Baroque relies on contrapuntal models which were common to all musical theory and practice for nearly a century. In the course examples and ...
- Course, Flexible, Autumn 2023, Distance learning, 50%, Swedish
- Course, Flexible, Spring 2024, Distance learning, 50%, Swedish
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Current Perspectives in Popular Music Studies, 7.5 credits (5MU078)
From its beginnings, the study of pop music has been marked by two idiosyncratic characteristics: first, it has been intrinsically interdisciplinary, including a diversity of theoretical and methodological perspectives. Second, the ...
- Course, Uppsala, Spring 2024, On-campus learning, 50%, English
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Ear Training 1, 7.5 credits (5MU049)
- Course, Flexible, Autumn 2023, Distance learning, 25%, Swedish
- Course, Flexible, Spring 2024, Distance learning, 25%, Swedish
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Ear Training 1, 7.5 credits (5MU049)
- Course, Flexible, Autumn 2022, Distance learning, 25%, Swedish
- Course, Flexible, Spring 2023, Distance learning, 25%, Swedish
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Editing Music, 15 credits (5MU035)
- Course, Flexible, Autumn 2022, Distance learning, 50%, Swedish
- Course, Flexible, Spring 2023, Distance learning, 50%, Swedish
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Editing Music, 15 credits (5MU035)
- Course, Flexible, Autumn 2023, Distance learning, 50%, Swedish
- Course, Flexible, Spring 2024, Distance learning, 50%, Swedish
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Elementary Music Theory, 7.5 credits (5MU047)
- Course, Flexible, Summer 2022, Distance learning, 50%, Swedish
- Course, Flexible, Autumn 2022, Distance learning, 25%, Swedish
- Course, Flexible, Spring 2023, Distance learning, 25%, Swedish
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Elementary Music Theory, 7.5 credits (5MU047)
- Course, Flexible, Summer 2023, Distance learning, 50%, Swedish
- Course, Flexible, Autumn 2023, Distance learning, 25%, Swedish
- Course, Flexible, Spring 2024, Distance learning, 25%, Swedish
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Ethnomusicological Perspectives, 7.5 credits (5MU063)
This course engages with a series of case studies, relating to different materials and methods, and guided by theoretical approaches from ethnomusicology.
- Course, Uppsala, Spring 2023, On-campus learning, 50%, The course will be taught in English, if needed
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Film Music Studies, 7.5 credits (5MU071)
Music has been an important component in film ever since moving images were established as an art form at the end of the 19th century. Prior to that, film music has deep roots in different traditions of opera and theatre music. In ...
- Course, Uppsala, Autumn 2022, On-campus learning, 50%, English
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Historical Musicology, 7.5 credits (5MU075)
This course engages with musical repertoires, agents, phenomena and sources from all periods, with theories and methodology from historical musicology.
- Course, Uppsala, Autumn 2022, On-campus learning, 50%, English
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Master's Programme in Musicology, 120 credits (HMV2M)
The Master's Programme in Musicology gives you a deep understanding and knowledge, as well as analytical skills to study and research music from all cultures and historical periods, including our present situation. Alumni from the ...
- Programme, Uppsala, Autumn 2023, On-campus learning, 100%, English
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Master's Thesis Proposal, 7.5 credits (5MU074)
This module is intended and compulsory for students writing a Master's thesis in Musicology. The course aims to help students establish a topic, methods, and theoretical framework, as well as compile empirical material for a thesis ...
- Course, Uppsala, Autumn 2022, On-campus learning, 50%, English
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Master's Thesis Proposal, 7.5 credits (5MU074)
This module is intended and compulsory for students writing a Master's thesis in Musicology. The course aims to help students establish a topic, methods, and theoretical framework, as well as compile empirical material for a thesis ...
- Course, Uppsala, Autumn 2023, On-campus learning, 50%, English
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Music Critique and Aesthetic Judgement, 7.5 credits (5MU064)
- Course, Uppsala, Autumn 2022, On-campus learning, 50%, Swedish
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Music Critique and Aesthetic Judgement, 7.5 credits (5MU064)
- Course, Uppsala, Autumn 2023, On-campus learning, 50%, Swedish
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Music Theory 1, 15 credits (5MU026)
- Course, Uppsala, Autumn 2023, On-campus learning, 50%, Swedish
- Course, Flexible, Autumn 2023, Distance learning, 50%, Swedish
- Course, Uppsala, Spring 2024, On-campus learning, 50%, Swedish
- Course, Flexible, Spring 2024, Distance learning, 50%, Swedish
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Music Theory 1, 15 credits (5MU026)
- Course, Uppsala, Autumn 2022, On-campus learning, 50%, Swedish
- Course, Flexible, Autumn 2022, Distance learning, 50%, Swedish
- Course, Uppsala, Spring 2023, On-campus learning, 50%, Swedish
- Course, Flexible, Spring 2023, Distance learning, 50%, Swedish
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Music Theory 2, 15 credits (5MU137)
- Course, Uppsala, Autumn 2022, On-campus learning, 50%, Swedish
- Course, Flexible, Autumn 2022, Distance learning, 50%, Swedish
- Course, Flexible, Spring 2023, Distance learning, 50%, Swedish
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Music Theory 2, 15 credits (5MU137)
- Course, Uppsala, Autumn 2023, On-campus learning, 50%, Swedish
- Course, Flexible, Autumn 2023, Distance learning, 50%, Swedish
- Course, Flexible, Spring 2024, Distance learning, 50%, Swedish
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Music and Gender, 7.5 credits (5MU079)
In the different subfields of musicology - such as music analysis, ethnomusicology and historical musicology - feminist theory and gender perspectives have had their place since the 1970s. This module discusses and analyses the relations ...
- Course, Uppsala, Autumn 2023, On-campus learning, 50%, English
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Music in Cultural Theory, 7.5 credits (5MU068)
This course approaches music as a cultural phenomenon from anthropological, historical and sociological premises. Different ways to grasp and understand musical processes, activities and practices are elucidated by a rich literature ...
- Course, Uppsala, Autumn 2023, On-campus learning, 50%, English
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Musical Analysis: Schenker, 15 credits (5MU029)
- Course, Flexible, Autumn 2022, Distance learning, 50%, Swedish
- Course, Flexible, Spring 2023, Distance learning, 50%, Swedish
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Musical Analysis: Schenker, 15 credits (5MU029)
- Course, Flexible, Autumn 2023, Distance learning, 50%, Swedish
- Course, Flexible, Spring 2024, Distance learning, 50%, Swedish
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Show more hitsWhat do musicologists do?
There are a lot of work opportunities for someone who has studied musicology. You could work at a radio station or in TV, write about music for newspapers and magazines, or work within the music industry or within music education. Other areas of employment include symphony orchestras, festivals and other music organizations. It is also possible to form one's education towards music archives or music libraries. Some of our former students have become solo artists or gotten jobs at artist management companies.