Overview
Music has 17 members of academic staff and over 100 postgraduate students researching a diverse range of subjects.
About research at Music
Music research covers a wide range of areas including interdisciplinary and practice-based projects.
Musicology and performance
Find an area of musicology studies that suits you here, along with the relevant scholarly expertise amongst our faculty.
Composition
Compositional studies at Edinburgh cross all styles and genres, including instrumental, vocal and electronic music.
Music technology and informatics
Research and skills development are offered in production, programming and all areas of new-media technology.
Institute for Music in Human and Social Development (IMHSD)
The IMHSD explores scientific, educational and therapeutic aspects of music, and welcomes both collaborators and students.
Musical Instrument Research
The University of Edinburgh collection of musical instruments and range of facilities helps to support students researching musical instruments across historical and cultural contexts.
Musical Acoustics
Research in the Acoustics and Fluid Dynamics Research Group at the University of Edinburgh includes the field of musical acoustics and a variety of specialised areas of study.
The Ness Project
The NESS project is a collaboration between the Acoustics group and the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, concerned with physical modelling sound synthesis.
This article was published on Sep 10, 2012