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Music History at UNT
Building on a long tradition of excellence, our graduate programs in musicology prepare students for careers in scholarship and teaching at colleges and universities within the vibrant environment of the College of Music. Our internationally renowned faculty cultivates a wide range of intellectual approaches and research practices, including source and archival research, historical performance practices, hermeneutics, religious and cultural history, and critical studies in politics, gender, and ethnicity.
We offer a Bachelor of Arts in Music with an emphasis in Music History and Literature, a Master of Arts in Music with a Concentration in Musicology, a Master of Arts in Music with a Concentration in Musicology and Early Music Performance emphasis, and a Ph.D. in Music with concentration in musicology.
The area’s dedication to scholarship and publication facilitates active engagement in broader conversations within the College and beyond. The interaction between research, performance, and teaching finds an immediate expression in our graduate programs and lies at the heart of our courses. These courses are diverse in their approaches and perspectives yet share a dual focus on music, considered on the one hand as a set of texts, and on the other hand as an ensemble of social practices. They critically elaborate upon composition, performance, reception, and hearing by presenting music as the culturally situated product of all four activities.
Above: A group of music history master's and doctoral students pictured in April 2014. Front row, from left to right: Emily Hagen, Cole Ritchie, Stephanie Kisling, Amy Cooper, Clare Carrasco, and Megan Varvir Coe. Back row, from left to right: Andrea Recek, Robert Anderson, Jessica Stearns, and Abigail Chaplin-Kyzer.
Music History
Faculty
Benjamin Brand
Bernardo Illari
Rebecca Geoffroy-Schwinden
Margaret Notley
Peter Mondelli
Hendrik Schulze
Adjunct Faculty
Deanna Bush
Dawn De Rycke
Bill McGinney
Mark McKnight
Randy Kinnett
J. Cole Ritchie
Emeritus and Former Faculty
Lester Brothers, Professor Emeritus
Deanna Bush, Professor Emerita
J. Michael Cooper, Associate Professor
Malena Kuss, Professor Emeritus
Lyle Nordstrom, Professor
Teaching Fellows
Clare Carrasco
Andrea Recek
Cole Ritchie
For Current Undergraduate Students
Undergraduate Degree in Music History
For Current Graduate Students
Related field in music history for Doctoral Students
Deadlines for Students Working with Music History Faculty
Ph.D Qualifying Exams for Musicology
Thesis and Dissertation Proposal Guidelines