音乐硕士（按研究）：表演练习课程适合希望研究并通过论文或带有评论或版本的表演表达对特定表演领域理解的学生。学生可以提交30至30的论文
The MA in Music (by Research): Performance Practice programme is suitable for students wishing to research and express their understanding of specific areas of performance practice either by thesis or by performance with commentary or editions. Students may submit a dissertation of between 30,000 and 40,000 words investigating the agreed topic, this might present a fresh understanding of an acknowledged area of performance practice (eg in early music) such as rhetoric – structures, ornamentation, rhetorical figures, gesture, rhythmic alteration, articulation – or vocal or instrumental style based on primary sources. Submission by performance might be in similar areas but the research insights are presented in a portfolio of up to 3 discrete recorded performances supported by an appropriate commentary of around 2,500 words (or longer if required) discussing the performance and its preparation and situating the project in a research context. It may be appropriate to submit critical or performance editions of the music to be discussed or performed.