Newcastle University, PhD, Music

Research opportunities in music include: Performance, composition and history of folk/folk-related musics; modernist and postmodernist music and aesthetics especially since World War II, music and gender, performance art, musicals, voice; music and ideology, Lacanian psychoanalysis, historiography, cultural theory; composition especially notated; composition especially of studio-based electronic music, free improvisation, electronic music, avant-garde, hip hop, counterculture; 20th-century music, Michael Tippett, music analysis, theory and aesthetics; Italian baroque, Benjamin Britten, conducting; ethnomusicology, music of the Caribbean, musical identities in Africa; traditional and vernacular musics of Britain and the USA; jazz composition, performance, arrangement and history; early music in England, print culture; music education, children and music; popular music; world music/beat, traditional and popular musics especially of the Mediterranean; late medieval and Renaissance music, liturgy and ritual, keyboard music, source studies, palaeography and archive research; singing, historical performance practice, issues of class, identity, gender and vocality in early modern Europe especially Italy.