Requirements and Courses (Thesis Option)
Program Requirement:
The M.A. in Music; Musicology program focuses on the diverse ways in which music's political, social, and historical contexts shape the meanings. The program comprises foundational methodologies, critical thinking skills and exploration of themes in musicological literature and analytical skills. Students write an in-depth monograph-style thesis.
Students admitted to the M.A. in Music; Musicology program who have undergraduate degrees other than the B.Mus.; Major in Music History from McGill University, may be required to successfully complete one or more undergraduate course(s) before completion of the Master's program.
Required Courses (30 credits)
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MUHL 529 Proseminar in Musicology 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Music History and Literature: Study of selected methodologies in musicology through critical examination of significant texts. Topics may include approaches to historiography, biography, editing and source studies, as well as aesthetics, literary criticism, semiology, feminist musicology, and ideology critique. Works by Adler, Adorno, Dahlhaus, Kerman, McClary, Meyer, Nattiez, and Subotnik, among others, will be addressed.
Offered by: Music Research
- 3 hours
- Prerequisites: MUHL 286
- Corequisite(s): MUTH 250 or MUCO 241, AND MUSP 241 or MUJZ 214
- Normally alternates with MUHL 591D1 and MUHL 591D2
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
Thesis Courses:
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MUGS 684 Master's Thesis Research 2 6 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Graduate Faculty Music Courses: Independent research work under the direction of the Thesis Supervisor.
Offered by: Music Research
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
MUGS 685 Master's Thesis Research 3 9 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Graduate Faculty Music Courses: Independent research work under the direction of the Thesis Supervisor.
Offered by: Music Research
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
MUGS 686 Master's Thesis Research 4 12 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Graduate Faculty Music Courses: Independent research work under the direction of the Thesis Supervisor.
Offered by: Music Research
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
Complementary Courses (15 credits)
3 credits from the following:
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MUHL 591D1 Paleography 1.5 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Music History and Literature: The theory and practice of musical transcription for the period 1100 to 1600. Black modal notation, Franconian notation, French and Italian Ars Nova notation, Mannerism, white mensural notation, proportions, and lute and keyboard tablatures will be studied.
Offered by: Music Research
- 1.5 hours
- Prerequisites: MUHL 286
- Corequisites: MUTH 250 or MUCO 241, AND MUSP 241 or MUJZ 214
- Normally alternates with MUHL 529
- Students must register for both MUHL 591D1 and MUHL 591D2
- No credit will be given for this course unless both MUHL 591D1 and MUHL 591D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
MUHL 591D2 Paleography 1.5 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Music History and Literature: See MUHL 591D1 for course description.
Offered by: Music Research
- Prerequisite: MUHL 591D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both MUHL 591D1 and MUHL 591D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
MUHL 592 Popular Music Studies 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Music History and Literature: An overview of scholarly methods used in the study of popular music. Topics will include a broad range of issues related to music analysis, including technical-stylistic approaches as well as ideas about analytical pertinence, aesthetics, and semiotics. Introduction to approaches associated with the sociology of music, sound studies, media studies, gender and critical race studies. These topics will be explored through a range of readings, and the analysis of selected recordings.
Offered by: Music Research
- Prerequisite: MUHL 286 or equivalent
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
12 credits from the following:
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MUHL 680 Seminar in Musicology 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Music History and Literature: Seminar in musicology. Topic varies by year.
Offered by: Music Research
- 3 hours
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
MUHL 681 Seminar in Musicology 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Music History and Literature: Seminar in musicology. Topic varies by year.
Offered by: Music Research
- 3 hours
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
MUHL 682 Seminar in Musicology 3 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Music History and Literature: Seminar in musicology. Topic varies by year.
Offered by: Music Research
- 3 hours
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
MUHL 683 Seminar in Musicology 4 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Music History and Literature: Seminar in musicology. Topic varies by year.
Offered by: Music Research
- 3 hours
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
MUHL 684 Seminar in Musicology 5 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Music History and Literature: Seminar in musicology. Topic varies by year.
Offered by: Music Research
- 3 hours
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
MUHL 685 Seminar in Musicology 6 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Music History and Literature: Seminar in musicology. Topic varies by year.
Offered by: Music Research
- 3 hours
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
Requirements and Courses (Gender and Women's Studies Option)
Program Requirement:
The Master of Arts in Music; Musicology - Gender and Women’s Studies focuses on issues centrally related to gender, sexuality, feminist theory, and/or women’s studies.
Students admitted to the Master of Arts in Music; Musicology - Gender and Women’s Studies program who have undergraduate degrees other than the B.Mus.; Major in Music History from McGill University, may be required to successfully complete one or more undergraduate course(s) before completion of the Master’s program.
Required Courses (30 credits)
-
MUHL 529 Proseminar in Musicology 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Music History and Literature: Study of selected methodologies in musicology through critical examination of significant texts. Topics may include approaches to historiography, biography, editing and source studies, as well as aesthetics, literary criticism, semiology, feminist musicology, and ideology critique. Works by Adler, Adorno, Dahlhaus, Kerman, McClary, Meyer, Nattiez, and Subotnik, among others, will be addressed.
Offered by: Music Research
- 3 hours
- Prerequisites: MUHL 286
- Corequisite(s): MUTH 250 or MUCO 241, AND MUSP 241 or MUJZ 214
- Normally alternates with MUHL 591D1 and MUHL 591D2
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
WMST 601 Feminist Theories and Methods 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Women's Studies: Examination of feminist theories and research methods from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
Thesis Courses
The candidate will undertake supervised research leading to a thesis that will be an in-depth investigation in some specialized field of Musicology on a topic centrally related to issues of Gender and/or Women's Studies.
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MUGS 683 Master's Thesis Research 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Graduate Faculty Music Courses: Independent research work under the direction of the Thesis Supervisor.
Offered by: Music Research
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
MUGS 685 Master's Thesis Research 3 9 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Graduate Faculty Music Courses: Independent research work under the direction of the Thesis Supervisor.
Offered by: Music Research
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
MUGS 686 Master's Thesis Research 4 12 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Graduate Faculty Music Courses: Independent research work under the direction of the Thesis Supervisor.
Offered by: Music Research
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
Complementary Courses (15 credits)
3 credits from the following:
-
MUHL 591D1 Paleography 1.5 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Music History and Literature: The theory and practice of musical transcription for the period 1100 to 1600. Black modal notation, Franconian notation, French and Italian Ars Nova notation, Mannerism, white mensural notation, proportions, and lute and keyboard tablatures will be studied.
Offered by: Music Research
- 1.5 hours
- Prerequisites: MUHL 286
- Corequisites: MUTH 250 or MUCO 241, AND MUSP 241 or MUJZ 214
- Normally alternates with MUHL 529
- Students must register for both MUHL 591D1 and MUHL 591D2
- No credit will be given for this course unless both MUHL 591D1 and MUHL 591D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
MUHL 591D2 Paleography 1.5 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Music History and Literature: See MUHL 591D1 for course description.
Offered by: Music Research
- Prerequisite: MUHL 591D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both MUHL 591D1 and MUHL 591D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
MUHL 592 Popular Music Studies 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Music History and Literature: An overview of scholarly methods used in the study of popular music. Topics will include a broad range of issues related to music analysis, including technical-stylistic approaches as well as ideas about analytical pertinence, aesthetics, and semiotics. Introduction to approaches associated with the sociology of music, sound studies, media studies, gender and critical race studies. These topics will be explored through a range of readings, and the analysis of selected recordings.
Offered by: Music Research
- Prerequisite: MUHL 286 or equivalent
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
6 credits from the following:
-
MUHL 680 Seminar in Musicology 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Music History and Literature: Seminar in musicology. Topic varies by year.
Offered by: Music Research
- 3 hours
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
MUHL 681 Seminar in Musicology 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Music History and Literature: Seminar in musicology. Topic varies by year.
Offered by: Music Research
- 3 hours
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
MUHL 682 Seminar in Musicology 3 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Music History and Literature: Seminar in musicology. Topic varies by year.
Offered by: Music Research
- 3 hours
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
MUHL 683 Seminar in Musicology 4 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Music History and Literature: Seminar in musicology. Topic varies by year.
Offered by: Music Research
- 3 hours
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
MUHL 684 Seminar in Musicology 5 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Music History and Literature: Seminar in musicology. Topic varies by year.
Offered by: Music Research
- 3 hours
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
MUHL 685 Seminar in Musicology 6 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Music History and Literature: Seminar in musicology. Topic varies by year.
Offered by: Music Research
- 3 hours
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
3 credits of seminars at the 600 level or higher, approved by the Schulich School of Music.
3 credits from the following:
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WMST 602 Feminist Research Symposium 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Women's Studies: Discussion and development of participants' research in gender and women's studies.
Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St
- Prerequisite: WMST 601.
- Restriction: Must be enrolled in the Option in Gender and Women's Studies.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
Or a 3-credit seminar at the 600 level or higher, on gender/women's issues, which may be selected from within or outside of the Schulich School of Music. The selection must be approved by the Musicology Area.
