Creative Music Practice PhD

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. <br/><br/>This will involve research that combines textual and musical outputs, for example:<br/><br/><br/>* composition<br/><br/><br/>* performance (either of original or pre-existing repertoire)<br/><br/><br/>* installation<br/><br/><br/>* sound design<br/><br/><br/>* interactive music software<br/><br/><br/>Typical applicants to this programme include:<br/><br/><br/>* composer-theorists who wish to carry out research into and practice of particular compositional models * performers who wish to deepen their practice through musicological research<br/><br/><br/>* computer-music composers who wish to develop documented hardware/software systems for their music<br/><br/><br/>* performers with a need to study the techniques and organology of period instruments<br/><br/><br/>* instrument builders/researchers seeking historical techniques found in evidence from the original instruments<br/>