• Musicology researches and conveys the development processes, functions and meanings of music; Cross-disciplinary topics and methods from cultural and social sciences to digital humanities play an important role. The study in the Detmold master's program in musicology includes the scientific examination of music in its entire historical and stylistic breadth. 
  • It is about music history and aesthetics, digital music edition and analysis as well as cultural and social meanings, about gender, performance research, music theater and popular music. 
  • In the master’s degree, students expand their specialist knowledge and methodological skills from the bachelor’s degree, making them more independent scientific work, communication and critical classification of scientific knowledge.