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The research Master's programme Musicology comprises two years (120 EC). Each year is divided into two semesters, running from September until January and from February until June. A semester is divided into two study periods. 

Curriculum

The programme consists of compulsory courses, electives, an internship or study abroad and a thesis. Have a look at the study schedule (PDF). 

Year 1 | Compulsory courses

During your first year, you take a series of interdisciplinary and disciplinary compulsory courses. There are also two modules on research methods and techniques in study period 2.

Part of the required interdisciplinary courses (up to 10 EC) will be taken at the national research schools relevant to the programme (, , , , ) and will be selected by you together with your mentor.

Year 1 | Electives

In study periods 2 and 4 of your first year, you and your mentor will also choose electives consisting of research seminars and/or tutorials targeting your specific research interest.

Year 2 Internship / study abroad and thesis

In the first semester of the second year, you can study abroad, do an internship, or complete additional course work (30 EC, including course offerings provided by the national research schools). In the second semester of that year, you will write your Master's thesis.

Below, you can find an overview of courses from the current academic year of this Master's. Please note: The course offer is reviewed yearly. This overview is therefore subject to change.

Examples of recent theses

• Maria Zwartbol (2024), As the old sing, so sing the young: children, song culture, and socialization in the early modern Northern Netherlands (1565-1700)

Thesis awards

• Juan Carlos Méndez Álvarez received the Hélène Nolthenius Thesis Prize of the Royal Society for Music History of the Netherlands (2024) for his thesis
• Gabriel Harmsen received the Dr. Albert van der Zeijden Thesis Prize 2023, granted by The Dutch Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage and Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� for his thesis
• Moira de Kok was the winner of The Faculty of the Humanities Thesis Prize 2023 for the Best Research Master Thesis and the Hélène Nolthenius Thesis Prize of the Royal Society for Music History of the Netherlands (2023) for her thesis
• Helen Herbert was awarded an honorable mention for the Hélène Nolthenius Thesis Prize of the Royal Society for Music History of the Netherlands (2023) for her thesis Josquin in Black and White: Materiality in Early Twentieth-Century Photographs of Historical Music Sources at Universiteit Utrecht’s Josquin Archief
• Liselotte Podda received the Vliegenthart Thesis Award 2020 for her Master's thesis . 
• Sonja Hamhuis was also a finalist for the Award, with her thesis .
• Joris van Son was the winner of the Virtus Thesis Award of the Society for Nobility Studies (2018) and the Hélène Nolthenius Prize of the Royal Society for Music History of the Netherlands (2020) for this thesis Studying music at home: Eighteenth-century Dutch domestic music-making.
• Iris Bouman was a finalist for the Vliegenthart Thesis Prize in 2017, with her thesis Operetta at the Berlin Metropol Theater 1934-1937: On the Relationship Between Operetta and National Socialist Ideology.

Educational methods

• seminars
• self-study
• internship (optional)

Examinations

• papers
• assignments
• presentations
• thesis

Each course requires a final paper or project. Weekly reading and/or writing assignments are compulsory. Courses usually include at least one presentation.