Analysing Notated Music
Course, Master's level, 5MU069
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Spring 2026
Spring 2026,
Uppsala, 50%, On-campus, English
- Location
- Uppsala
- Pace of study
- 50%
- Teaching form
- On-campus
- Instructional time
- Daytime
- Study period
- 19 January 2026–29 March 2026
- Language of instruction
- English
- Entry requirements
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A Bachelor's degree, equivalent to a Swedish Kandidatexamen, from an internationally recognised university. Good knowledge in reading music. Proficiency in English equivalent to the general entry requirements for first-cycle (Bachelor's level) studies.
- Selection
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All qualified applicants will be admitted.
- Fees
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If you are not a citizen of a European Union (EU) or European Economic Area (EEA) country, or Switzerland, you are required to pay application and tuition fees.
- First tuition fee instalment: SEK 12,500
- Total tuition fee: SEK 12,500
- Application deadline
- 15 October 2025
- Application code
- UU-02912
Admitted or on the waiting list?
- Registration period
- 18 December 2025–18 January 2026
- Information on registration from the department
About the course
Notation is used in music to achieve a certain audible result and has enabled complex and sophisticated structures in the development of Western music. Analysis of scores of notation is thus a very powerful theoretical and methodological tool in the understanding of such music.
The course addresses methodologies and traditions of thought in music analysis, including the following:
- fixed and dynamic traditions of genre, form, and style traditions, and their terminologies and conceptual apparatus
- reductive and layer-based analytical models
- hermeneutic, semiotic and metaphorical analytical models
- questions concerning intentionality, work concept, critical evaluation and interpretation.
Reading list
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