Program Description
Royal Holloway has expertise spanning traditional, modern and world music. Through studying musical texts, practices, cultures and institutions you will explore issues in history, sociology, ethnology, and philosophy covering an exceptional geographical and chronological range. You will also be able to gain practical skills in composition, music technology and performance.
You will join a music department that is among the very best in the country, ranked third in the UK for research quality (REF 2014) and the only music department in the country to hold a prestigious Regius Professorship. This well connected department means you have the opportunity to make valuable music industry contacts. Its staff are connected with musical networks such Wigmore Hall, the BBC Proms, Royal Opera House.