Master’s Programme Music Studies
You want to analyse and understand European and non-European music cultures in depth?
The Master’s programme in Music Studies enables in-depth, multi-perspectival engagement with music from diverse stylistic, historical and geographical contexts.
Please note: the language of instruction for this programme is German.
Master of Arts
Duration/ECTS-Credits
4 semesters/120 ECTS-Credits
Mode of Study
Full-time
Language
German
Requirements
Relevant bachelor's degree/equivalent
and Language Certificates
Faculty
Faculty of Philosophy and History
Level of qualification
Master (Second Cycle)
ISCED-11: Level 7, EQF/NQF: Level 7
ISCED-F
0215 Music and performing arts
Study Code
UC 066 836
Dates and Deadlines for admission
Masterstudium Musikwissenschaft
FAQ
Graduates possess highly specialised knowledge. They are able to apply their knowledge by independently formulate and substantiate scientific arguments and to find innovative solutions to problems.
The Master's Programme Music Studies is grouped among the Humanities.
The master's programme serves as an in-depth and complementary vocational education based on a relevant bachelor's programme. Special attention in the master’s programme is to be given to an increasingly autonomous approach of scientific issues, problem-solving skills as well as promoting critical reflection of research results and methodological approaches.
Graduates of the Master’s Programme Music Studies have highly specialized knowledge in different disciplines of music studies, which qualify them for innovative and original research. They are able to elaborate new problem statements and to achive methodically secured results, with special attention to the current state of research. They are able to apply their knowledge and understanding in terms of subject-specific skills and the competence of scientific integration of knowledge from different areas.
Career paths range from research and teaching at universities, universities of the arts, conservatoires, music schools and in adult education to roles in music collections and music‑related documentation institutions (libraries, archives, museums, music information centres); in the media (radio, television, print and online); in cultural management (event organisation and cultural outreach/education); in dramaturgy; in the cultural industries (publishing, recorded music); and in cultural administration and policy.
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Art, Music & Literature
Anyone wishing to study Art History, Music Studies or literary studies will find several suitable degree programmes at the University of Innsbruck.
The arts and literature disciplines form part of the Research Area: Cultural Encounters – Cultural Conflicts, one of the University of Innsbruck’s eight Research Areas, in which humanities and social sciences disciplines examine forms of cultural contact, exchange and conflict.
The University of Innsbruck also boasts extensive Archives and Collections, which are available for research and teaching.
