Musicology
The Master's Program in Musicology at Peabody brings together an array of disciplines that provide the broadest scholarly insights into music. Students enrolled in the Program participate in the core curriculum required of all Masters students. In addition, they are required to take one year of the doctoral colloquium and graduate research culminating in the writing of a thesis. All courses are taught by faculty members who are nationally recognized experts in each particular discipline.
The program can serve as a stepping stone to a doctorate in musicology, or as a secondary degree for someone seeking to obtain or maintain a position teaching performance at the university level, or in a variety of related professions such as music publishing or music criticism.
As Peabody accepts only a few students each year, every student receives individual attention from a distinguished faculty of musicologists working in various fields such as early music, American music, Computer music, and Ethnomusicology.
Studies in early music are enhanced by performance opportunities in two early music ensembles.
The study of American music is enriched by access to the Lester Levy Collection of Sheet Music housed at the Milton Eisenhower Library of the Johns Hopkins University and by the close proximity to the resources available at the Library of Congress. The Friedheim Music Library and the interlibrary loan system provide additional resources in all areas of musicological research.
Certain students accepted into the program can receive financial support in the form of graduate assistantships. These awards provide students with the experience of teaching at the undergraduate as well as graduate levels. Selected students may have teaching opportunities in courses offered for non-majors at the Homewood campus of The Johns Hopkins University.
Recent graduates of the Masters of Music in Music History have gone on to Ph.D. programs at such institutions as Princeton, Harvard, University of Chicago, and University of California at Berkeley, and our graduates now hold positions at a number of colleges and universities around the country.
Faculty
- Suhnne Ahn
- Elizabeth Archibald
- Douglas Buchanan (2012-2013)
- Richard Giarusso
- John Gingerich
- David Hildebrand
- Jolie Lin (2012-2013)
- Monica Lopez-Gonzalez (2012-2013)
- Paul Mathews (2012-2013)
- John Moran
- Jennifer Ottervik
- Ronit Seter (2012-2013)
- Elam Ray Sprenkle
- Andrew Talle
- Stephen Thursby (2012-2013)
- Elizabeth Tolbert
- Joshua Walden (2012-2013)
- Susan Weiss, chair
