Music/Psychology

About this course

Music and psychology is a pairing that explores both what music is and what it does to us, bringing the technical, cultural and historical study of music into dialogue with the scientific investigation of perception, cognition, emotion and behaviour. Music as an academic discipline covers analysis, composition, performance, music history and the theoretical frameworks through which we understand musical structure and meaning. Psychology provides the empirical and theoretical tools to investigate human experience and behaviour, including how we process and respond to music, how musical ability develops and how music functions in social and therapeutic contexts. At the University of Glasgow you will study across four years full-time, including a year abroad that broadens your intellectual and cultural horizons. You will encounter the technical and philosophical questions music raises, inc

Where its graduates go

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