Our Research

 The Music Department at NUIM is a lively research community of academics and postgraduate students working in the areas of musicology, composition, music technology and performance. Musicological conferences, seminars and study-days are regularly held in the Department. The Department’s research interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century music, the history of music in Ireland, music analysis, performance-related research, music technology and electro-acoustic music. Several staff members are active as performers, and as composers both in the acoustic and the electroacoustic fields.

Recent and forthcoming publications by members of the Music Department staff include the following areas of research:

• music in Ireland from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries
• music in nineteenth-century Britain
• Schubert, Goethe and music in early nineteenth-century Germany
• Musical Signal Processing and Computer Music Languages

Postgraduate Research

There are currently twenty-one PhD and five M.Litt research students in the Music Department, making it one of the larger graduate musicology departments in the country. PhD programmes are offered in Musicology, Composition, Performance, and Music Technology. A postgraduate symposium is held each year at which students present papers, and our research students regularly contribute to conferences both in Ireland and overseas. The second issue of Maynooth Musicology, the Department's Postgraduate Research Journal, was published in March 2009.