UVA’s MA in Music provides scholarly training in Western classical music, world music traditions, music theory, and composition. Students explore musical texts, cultural practices, and performative contexts while engaging in rigorous analysis and creative inquiry. The program supports academic preparation for PhDs or careers in musicology, education, and arts administration.
Comparative analysis of rhythmic structures in African diasporic music
Historical performance practices in Baroque keyboard music
Feminist approaches to analyzing 19th-century German lieder
Digital ethnography of indie music communities on Bandcamp
Neural network-based composition tools for experimental music
Reception history of Beethoven in Cold War politics
Study of maqam systems in Middle Eastern musical traditions
Oral transmission and pedagogy in Appalachian folk music
Algorithmic analysis of motivic development in late Romantic symphonies
Music and identity among immigrant youth in urban America
Cross-cultural musical influences in video game soundtracks
Reconstruction of lost compositions from colonial Latin America
Music notation systems in Indigenous American traditions
AI-generated music and the philosophy of authorship
Archival work on early 20th-century women composers
Explore musical expression across cultures and centuries in UVA’s scholarly MA in Music.
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