我们的博士学位 历史音乐学课程是一个传统的计划，旨在使学生为最高水平的音乐历史研究做好准备。它融合了音乐之外的人文领域的未成年人，并以博士学位论文达到高潮。音乐学系的教职员工在文艺复兴时期的音乐（尤其是西班牙文艺复兴时期），十八世纪的音乐（尤其是德语地区），修道院音乐，十九世纪的美国音乐，器官学和各个时期的表演实践方面具有特殊的优势和兴趣。 。最近的研讨会探索了拉斯·韦尔加斯（Las Huelgas）法典，克里斯托·巴尔·德·莫拉莱斯（Cristóbalde Morales），十八世纪维也纳的音乐和日常
Our Ph.D. curriculum in historical musicology is a traditionally conceived program that prepares students for historical research in music at the highest level. It incorporates a minor in a humane field outside music and culminates with a doctoral dissertation. The musicology faculty members have specialized strengths and interests in renaissance music (particularly renaissance Spain), eighteenth-century music (particularly in the German-speaking lands), convent music, music of nineteenth-century America, organology, and performance practice of all periods. Recent seminars have explored the Las Huelgas codex, Cristóbal de Morales, music and daily life in eighteenth-century Vienna, music and rhetoric in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the operas of W.A. Mozart. We also offer a Ph.D. in musicology with a focus on Southern Regional Studies, this unique program combines historical and ethnomusicological elements and is intended for students whose interests revolve especially around the vernacular musics of the southern United States. Recent dissertations have dealt with session musicians in the Memphis recording studios, blues cover songs, the Blackwell Brothers, the fiddler Melvin Wine, and the structure of rhythm and blues music.