Creative Music Practice PhD

The University of Edinburgh

The PhD in Creative Music Practice is an opportunity for you to pursue practice-led research in the field of music at the highest level.This will involve research that combines textual and musical outputs, for example:compositionperformance (either of original or pre-existing repertoire)installationsound designinteractive music softwareTypical applicants to this programme include:composer-theorists who wish to carry out research into and practice of particular compositional modelsperformers who wish to deepen their practice through musicological researchcomputer-music composers who wish to develop documented hardware/software systems for their musicperformers with a need to study the techniques and organology of period instrumentsinstrument builders/researchers seeking historical techniques found in evidence from the original instruments

Music