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Musicology & Ethnomusicology Division

The Musicology & Ethnomusicology Division at the UMD School of Music comprises two distinct programs offering graduate study in the histories, literatures, and ethnographies of music.

The Musicology program focuses on the musical history of traditionally-defined Western culture, and the Ethnomusicology program explores musical cultures from around the globe. Both of these graduate-level programs offer the Master of Arts (MA) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degrees.

These programs offer undergraduate coursework, but do not offer Bachelor's degrees.

Faculty

Robert Provine
Fernando Rios
Boden Sandstrom
I Ketut Suadin
Patrick Warfield
Richard Wexler
J. Lawrence Witzleben

Shelley Davis
Mahiri Edwards
Barbara Haggh-Huglo
Olga Haldey
Michel Huglo
Richard King- Division Chair
Amadou Kouyate

Kyoko Okamoto

Degrees

Master of Arts in Ethnomusicology
Master of Arts in Music History & Literature
Doctor of Philosophy in Ethnomusicology
Doctor of Philosophy in Musicology

Facilities

Ethnomusicology & Musicology Technology Lab
Designated Seminar Rooms

Ensembles

In addition to its scholarly activities, the Musicology & Ethnomusicology Division sponsors four popular performance ensembles. Each ensemble presents at least one public concert per semester:

World Music

UMD African Drum Ensemble — West African djembe drum ensemble

UMD Gamelan Ensemble — Indonesian (Balinese) metallophone ensemble, named Gamelan Saraswati

UMD Koto Ensemble — performs traditional Japanese music for zither

UMD Korean Percussion Ensemble — performs traditional Korean percussion music from the more traditional p'ungmul farmers' bands music and the more contemporary Samul Nori pieces