Goldsmiths, University of London, Department of Music, On Campus Masters Degrees

From a range of stimulating pathways, you choose one that best suits your interests. Modules are shared across pathways, and are rooted in academic and practice-based research. Read more

The MA Music (Audiovisual Cultures) offers you a unique opportunity to engage with cutting-edge interdisciplinary research on music and the moving image. Read more

The MA Music (Ethnomusicology) introduces a range of methodologies in relation to the study of music in its cultural contexts. Read more

The Musicology pathway in the MA Music programme qualifies graduates to embark upon their own research. While honing specialist skills, this pathway teaches students bold approaches to music as a practice and an academic discipline. Read more

The MA Music (Popular Music Research) engages with scholarly debates and public controversies around popular music, while examining and developing both traditional and innovative ways of researching popular music. Read more

The MMus Composition fosters your ability to compose and notate music, and to develop your own personal musical language.  You explore a wide range of technical procedures for contemporary composition and engage intellectually and critically with related theories and concepts. Read more

This flexible Masters is an opportunity to investigate and combine strategies for developing new creative work. This is an inclusive, forward-thinking composition and creative practice degree, open to broad conceptions of composition, and multi-disciplinary approaches to creative practice. Read more

The MMus degree allows students to advance in performance and composition in the broadest sense, while acquiring academic knowledge. Read more

This Masters develops your technical and interpretive abilities as a performer, informed by an understanding of style, genre, context and interpretation, as well as historical and theoretical issues relevant to your specialist repertoire. Read more

The MMus Popular Music builds upon our international reputation in the popular music field established by our ground-breaking undergraduate degree. Read more

The MMus Sonic Arts offers you a unique opportunity to work at the forefront of a wide range of creative and experimental approaches to technology-based sound and music practice, including spatial sound, field recording, live electronics, interactive performance, improvisation systems, sound art installation and audiovisual composition. Read more

Goldsmiths’ Department of Music has a lively and varied research base, large postgraduate community, active performing tradition, and offers proximity to London’s resources. Read more