University master's degrees
University Master's Degree in Musicology, Musical Education and Interpretation of Early Music

There are two tracks available: one that will provide you with the methodological and practical tools to undertake musicology or music education research, and a second to perfect the instrumental interpretation of early music

Official Master's Degree in Musicology, Musical Education and Interpretation of Early Music

Ideal student profile

This Master's degree is designed for university graduates who also have musical knowledge.

Basic skills

  • Communicate and justify conclusions clearly and unambiguously to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
  • Use acquired knowledge as a basis for originality in the application of ideas, often in a research context.
  • Solve problems in new or little-known situations within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to the field of study.
  • Integrate knowledge and use it to make judgements in complex situations, with incomplete information, while keeping in mind social and ethical responsibilities.
  • Continue the learning process, to a large extent autonomousl.

Specific skills

  • Develop research in the disciplines of musicology and music education, and to collaborate in group projects.
  • Use different user-level music software available in the market to apply them to musicological research and development projects interpretation.
  • Analyze and interpret historical sources and documents relating to music.
  • Conduct research in archive, periodicals and literature related to the field of music.
  • Analyze music according to cultural areas and according to the social contexts in which they arise and develop by applying it to research and interpretive projects.
  • Analyze and get high quality results in the process of transmissionof knowledge and musical practices.
  • Exhibiting written skills when designing a research project.
  • Analyze the competences of professional music teachers.
  • Distinguish and apply different methodologies of musicological research and research in music education-oriented projects.
  • Analyze the different contexts (social, economic, historical, artistic) involved in the music profession to develop appropriate research work.
  • Develop high-level international events in the field of interpretation of early music.
  • Participate in a collective interpretive work with a high degree of instrumental excellence
  • Distinguish and apply different orientations performing early music
  • Distinguish contexts (social, economic, historical, artistic) involved in the music profession to conduct interpretive projects

Cross-curricular skills

  • Transmit orally and written musicological aspects, educational and interpretive projects carried out.
  • Work in interdisciplinary contexts related to musicology, music education and interpretation.
  • Demonstrate self-learning skills in the field of study of musicology, music education and interpretation.
  • Apply critical projects of musicological research and interpretive projects.
  • Consider innovative projects of musicological research and interpretive projects.
  • Develop the ability to evaluate sex- and gender-based inequalities and design solutions