Researchers within the centre are also eagerly exploring new avenues and directions in musicology including physiological indicators of emotion as interaction channels with artistic applications. The study of musicology introduces students to the fundamental principles of research in music and allows them to develop a variety of skills and approaches that they can apply to a range of research topics.

It encourages students to investigate research methods, explore critical, analytical and creative approaches to music research, develop independent thought and engage in critical thinking. Musicology encompasses a comprehensive range of disciplines including music theory and analysis, critical editing and the historical and social study of music. Research in this area is musicologically rigorous, and investigates forms of music expression, repertoire and cultural values in the contexts of revival, popularisation and globalisation. With the developing revision of community, genre-specific, sub-cultural, regional and national identities in the world, musics have become the ultimate definers of preference and place. It covers classical musicology and ethnomusicology as discrete disciplines while expanding consideration of these into the area of significant overlap and fallout within contemporary music.

It involves critical interpretation and analysis of all genres of music in their wider cultural, political, sociological and artistic contexts. Research in this area is historical, aesthetic and empirical. Musicology and Ethnomusicology areĮmbedded in our undergraduate programmes, popular areas for postgraduate research, and inclusive of much of the ongoing research and publications by staff. The study of music is fundamental to our academic mission at DkIT and is an integral component of our programmes in the School of Informatics and Creative Arts.

What is ethnomusicology