Department of Music

World leading arts and humanities faculty (Times Higher Education 2020). Top 6 in the UK for research excellence (REF 2014). 4th for overall student satisfaction within the Russell Group for Music (NSS 2019).

Study with us

Voice Singing Women soundhouse microphone

Undergraduate courses

Group of postgraduate music students with harp

Masters courses

PhD study

Making music

Student profiles

My Experience - BMus Undergraduate

Emily Cooper

BMus Music , The Department of Music

My Experience - MA Musicology

Xinyi Liang

MA Musicology, Department of Music

My Research: PhD in Music Psychology

Caroline Curwen

PhD researcher, Music-colour synaesthesia

My Research: PhD in Musicology

Shen Li

PhD researcher, Piano Timbre Perception and Production

Current research projects

Department of Music researchers play key role in UK’s first Centre for Cultural Value

Researchers from the Department of Music are a key partner in a new centre that will examine the value of arts and culture – from book clubs and pub gigs to fine art and opera.

Broadway’s lost chords and Hollywood’s cut tracks uncovered

Rarely-heard songs cut from some of the world’s most beloved musicals such as The King and I and Annie Get Your Gun are set to be performed in public for the first time.