Master of Arts in Music - Ethnomusicology

Ethnomusicology, the study of music as culture, aims at understanding how music from around the world works, why it exists, what it means, and how it reflects, references, and inflects our human condition. Ethnomusicologists come from, draw upon, and contribute to a variety of disciplines: music, cultural anthropology, folklore, performance studies, dance, cultural studies, gender studies, ethnic studies, area studies, and other fields in the humanities and social sciences. Ethnomusicology has been a rapid growth area for UofT Music. We have research specialists in musical and cultural practices of East and Southeast Asia, India, Latin America, the Middle East and North America. Our thematic specializations include diasporic musics, transnationalism, historical ethnomusicology, music, capital and technology, the analysis of rhythm and metre, musical change, women's music, and music, traumatic experience, and everyday life. We place particular value on methodology and fieldwork.
Music in culture and society and world music take a central role in UofT Music's undergraduate program. The core requirements in History and Culture include ethnomusicological courses concerned with the roles of music in society and culture, and with different world musics. Advanced courses include electives for all music students, some with a performance element in them, as well as those designed to probe in some depth the history of a particular period or genre and to introduce students to research in that area. Students also have the opportunity to take part in any of the six World Music Ensembles each year, one of which is led by our annual World Music Artist-in-Residence. Those interested in pursuing ethnomusicology further may do so in the Mus.Bac. in Music History & Theory, or by completing the Music History & Culture Minor in addition to another UofT Music undergraduate program.

An appropriate Bachelor of Arts specialist degree or Bachelor of Music degree from a recognized university, with an average standing equivalent to a University of Toronto mid-B or better over the final two years.

IELTS - Minimum required score 7.0 (Academic) with at least 6.5 for each component.
TOEFL IBT - Overall Score - 93, Writing and Speaking- 22, TOEFL Paper-based Test - Overall Score 580, TWE 5