The Musicology & Ethnomusicology Program at Boston University offers graduate degrees in Musicology, Ethnomusicology, and Musicology and Ethnomusicology as well as an undergraduate Bachelor of Art. The program is led by a prolific, supportive, and inclusive department, dedicated to the shared purpose of innovative, engaged, and rigorous scholarship. Students are engaged in interdisciplinary, disciplinary, historical, translational, analytical, and cross-cultural thinking.

The twelve full-time faculty and two affiliated faculty in BU’s Department of Musicology & Ethnomusicology work on Early, Baroque, Romantic, Modernist and Avant-Garde music in the European classical tradition as well as jazz, ragtime, rock, and  music in South and East Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe, and the United States (including Black Boston). Our faculty’s theoretical focuses include race, the body, historical performance, global queer identities, protest, politics, ritual, violence, technology, sound studies, manuscript studies, post-colonial studies, modernity, and medical ethnomusicology

Degrees Offered

Featured Faculty

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  Michael Birenbaum Quintero

  Associate Professor of Music, Musicology & Ethnomusicology

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  Leland Clarke

  Professor of the Practice, Musicology & Ethnomusicology

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  Victor Coelho

  Professor of Music; Director, Center for Early Music Studies; Chair, Department of Historical Performance

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  Dan DiPiero

  Assistant Professor of Music, Musicology & Ethnomusicology

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  Brita Heimarck

  Associate Professor of Music

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  Gregory Melchor-Barz

  Professor of Ethnomusicology; Chair, Musicology & Ethnomusicology Department

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  Andrew Shenton

  Professor, Musicology and Ethnomusicology; James R. Houghton Scholar of Sacred Music (School of Theology)

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  Jeremy Yudkin

  Professor of Music; Co-Director of the Center for Beethoven Studies