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Cornell awards the Ph.D. for original contributions to the study of music, considered broadly to include a wide range of repertories and traditions. While the program encompasses ethnomusicology, music theory, and historical musicology, Cornell offers a single Ph.D. in musicology for study in and/or across any of these areas. Ph.D. students are free to amplify their research with active music-making and participation in the creative and intellectual life of the department and the university at large. Training in musicology at Cornell emphasizes independent thinking and an integral approach. Since there are no strictly specified courses of study, students are expected to draw on the resources of the department and the university in original ways, and are encouraged to work with the assistance of faculty members in other departments, for example, anthropology, sociology, history, German studies, psychology, or any of Cornell's area programs (such as that for Southeast Asia), both as part of their general studies and in development of expertise in one or more fields of specialization. Recent dissertation topics at Cornell include: madness in early nineteenth-century Italian opera; "musica popular" in 1980s Brazil; Telemann's ensemble sonatas; chromaticism and form in Debussy's orchestral music; theoretical treatises of Al-Farabi; narrative in Verdi; music and metaphysics in nineteenth-century Germany; ritual in the tragédie en musique; Alpine landscape and female purity in early-nineteenth-century Italian opera; and Balinese discourses on music. The musicology program at Cornell is designed to lead to the Ph.D. degree. Students wishing to earn only an M.A. are ordinarily not admitted, but those who enter the doctoral program without having already earned an M.A. receive this degree in the course of their studies. Students accepted into the Ph.D. program are guaranteed five full years of financial support, in a combination of fellowships and teaching assistantships.
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