UVA’s PhD in Music trains future scholars in the critical, cultural, and analytical study of music. With concentrations in musicology, theory, and ethnomusicology, students pursue original research grounded in archival inquiry, fieldwork, and interdisciplinary frameworks. The program supports academic publishing, conference presentation, and pedagogical development for careers in higher education and cultural institutions.
Archival research on Black composers in early 20th-century America
Ethnomusicological fieldwork on music and ritual in West Africa
Spectral music and timbre analysis in contemporary composition
Music theory and semiotics in 21st-century electronic music
Study of sonic landscapes in Indigenous Australian performance
Impact of colonial archives on Caribbean music historiography
Music and trauma: narrative memory in Holocaust compositions
Philosophy of time and rhythm in minimalist works
Diaspora, displacement, and nostalgia in Balkan folk revival
Algorithmic composition as a method in musicological inquiry
Digital humanities project on opera libretti text-music alignment
Afrofuturism and sound in Black speculative arts
Intertextuality and quotation in symphonic works of the 20th century
Tuning systems and microtonality in global improvisation traditions
Curatorial approaches to decolonizing university music collections
Advance music scholarship through global research and critical inquiry in UVA’s PhD in Music.
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