Learning Objective
For both students with little experience and those with more academic backgrounds, this class offers students the possibility to explore their own interests through a wide range of research methodologies.
Research is no longer confined to online source material and library archives, but can now be done in a variety of new and exciting ways. Everyone uses the computer to look up information, but how can we judge the material we find? What other technologies and methodologies can we use? What can we learn from other fields?

Course Content
This course has been especially designed to help students explore different research tools that could be helpful for their careers, as well as for their master's research project. Basic musicology methodologies presented will include music sources (manuscripts, printed editions, written additions), contemporaneous source material (treatises, diaries, reviews), and organology (musical instruments). Visual sources (paintings, prints, photographs, films, videos) and audio material (from mechanical toys to recordings) will also be examined. Methodologiesfrom ethnomusicology, the study of music within a cultural context, bring topics such as gender, folk traditions, as well as inclusivity and diversity concerns into focus. Techniques from the field of embodied research will also be discussed, as well as a brief overview of technologies that open up new research possibilities.