GRADUATE PROGRAM: Yale Institute of Sacred Music, New Haven, MAR Program in Music and Religion
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The Yale Institute of Sacred Music invites applications for the MAR program in Music and Religion. Deadline: February 1, 2024.
The degree program in “Music and Religion” is part of the interdisciplinary master’s program in Religion and the Arts. The concentration “Music and Religion” aims to familiarize students with broad areas of sacred music and their theological, philosophical, material, ritual, and social contexts. The program is open to students wanting to focus on historical musicology, ethnomusicology, or the theological study of music. Students will work primarily within the methodological and theoretical framework of their subdiscipline, but they are also expected to cross boundaries between music studies subfields.
Institute students are immersed in a vibrant interdisciplinary environment that fosters a collaborative learning experience. Students are encouraged to consider music within an interdisciplinary network that includes the visual arts, poetry, literature, and ritual. Yale offers a wide variety of music-related courses, and students are invited to take advantage of course offerings in the larger Yale community, particularly the School of Music and the Department of Music. After graduation from the program, former students have successfully pursued doctoral degrees in historical musicology or ethnomusicology, or theological studies with a particular focus on music and ritual.
The flexible curricula of the Institute and its partner schools allow for full engagement with Yale’s wide-ranging learning environment and collections. The weekly ISM colloquium, team-taught courses, biennial study trip, and rich community life are some of the ways ISM students achieve the kind of integrative learning that will prepare them for work in their chosen fields.
The MAR degree in “Music and Religion” is awarded in partnership with the Yale Divinity School. For more information see: https://ism.yale.edu/graduate-study/admission-graduate-study
Markus Rathey, PhD
Robert S. Tangeman Professor, Music History
Yale Institute of Sacred Music
