BA Degree – Musicology

If you opt to study Musicology at the U.N.M.B., you will discover how a young musician comes to understand the musical past for the good of both the present and the future. In taking this journey, you will be guided by a team of teachers that includes award-winning, leading figures in the field of musicology who have gained renown at the national and international level. 

As part of your four-year Degree in Musicology

  • You will be able to explore musical histories, scores, and ideas to do with classical, pop, film, and traditional musics 
  • You will gain an awareness of the subtle but important interactions between music and history, and between music and society.
  • You will learn how to analyse a score in order to capture the secrets of musical structures.
  • You will be able to develop your instrumental, vocal, and conducting skills via specific disciplines.
  • You will have the opportunity to take part in the National Musicology Competition held by the U.N.M.B., an event that has gained well-deserved prestige over the years, and to publish articles, music reviews, and interviews in the pages of Acord, our university’s flagship magazine.
  • In addition to all this, you will be able to practise musicology in various contexts, ranging from Radio Romania to the U.N.M.B. Research Department and University Press.

You will thereby be prepared to follow the path you find to be best suited to you: as a teacher; as an editor in the audio-visual sector, print media, or the press; as a reviewer or music secretary with a philharmonic, opera, or cultural institution; and even as a shaper of online opinion. The countless awards won by our students and graduates, as well as the outstanding careers they have gone on to forge for themselves, are confirmation of the high standard of teaching you will receive while studying for this degree.

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Year 4

Facultative modules and subjects

  • The module I DPPD (level 1 diploma). During the years of studies, the students have the possibility to attend the courses belonging to the Department for Training the Teaching Staff (in Romanian, DPPD), level 1: Psychology of the Educational Process; Basis of Music Pedagogy; Theory and Methodology of the Curricula; Theory and Methodology of Teaching; Class Management; Didactics Applied to Music; Computer Assisted Training; Pedagogical Practice in Compulsory Pre-Higher Education. The graduation of these courses certifies the students’ right to teach music for secondary school students, within the general and music educational system.
  • Classical composition module, Jazz module and Pop module.
  • Other subjects: Instrument/Singing; Music Production (Mixing and Editing) in the Studio; Gamelan Ensemble; Creative Writing; Speech and Communication; etc.