[ANPPOM-L] Doctoral Scholarship in Early-Music Studies, Ireland

[Carlos Palombini]

Three-Year Doctoral Scholarship in Early-Music Studies 
University College Cork, Ireland

The Department of Music at University College Cork is excited to offer a
three-year scholarship for doctoral research on any aspect of
sixteenth-century Italian vocal music. The successful candidate will work
with Dr Melanie Marshall whose particular interests in this field encompass
word-music relations, archival research, editing, patronage (especially at
courts and academies), gender (including early modern masculinities),
sexuality and eroticism. The successful candidate will have demonstrable
scholarly interest and experience in the field or a cognate area, and will
have obtained at least a Second Class Honours degree. In the event that the
successful candidate does not hold a Masters degree, s/he will be registered
in the first instance for the degree of MPhil, with the possibility of
subsequently upgrading to PhD.

The scholarship is worth EUR8,235 per annum, consisting of a fee waiver of
EUR3,945 and a stipend of EUR4,290, in return for work as a teaching
assistant on the Department's undergraduate programmes. A successful
applicant from outside the EU could apply for an additional fee waiver from
other University sources.

The selection procedure is in two stages. In addition to UCC's standard PhD
application form and a 1000-word research proposal, candidates should submit
a chapter and bibliography from an undergraduate or Masters thesis by 30
June 2006. Short-listed candidates will be interviewed. Applicants whose
proposals are sufficiently compelling will also be considered for the
Department's other funding schemes.

The Department's century-long tradition of integrating musicologies,
performance and creativity is second-to-none in Ireland. With a highly
qualified staff of international standing and a unique approach modeled on
the best practices from either side of the Atlantic, the Department boasts
an extraordinary breadth of staff interests and an unrivalled ability to
cross intellectual borders and break new ground. Recent and future
international conferences hosted by the Department include the 2005
conference of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, a one-day New Music
symposium (2006), and two events in 2007: a symposium of the International
Council for Traditional Music (Ireland) and an interdisciplinary conference
on "Sexualities, Textualities, Art and Music in Early Modern Italy".

Cork's thriving musical culture is a fitting complement to the Department's
diversity. Known in Ireland as the festival city, Cork's international
events include the long-established Guinness Jazz Festival, the Cork
International Choral Festival and the Beamish Cork Folk Festival. The new
annual East Cork Early Music Festival attracts international performers (in
2005 the festival included both Emma Kirkby  and Ensemble Currende), and
there are ample local, regional and national performance opportunities.

For an informal discussion and application information, please contact
Melanie Marshall (ml.marshall em ucc.ie).

Dr Melanie L. Marshall 
Department of Music 
University College Cork 
Cork 
Ireland

Tel +353 (0)21 490 4530 
Fax: +353 (0)21 421 2507 
Web: http://www.music.ucc.ie/ 
Email: ml.marshall em ucc.ie


-- 
carlos palombini
diretor
centro de pesquisa em música contemporânea
universidade federal de minas gerais
cpmc-ufmg
<palombini em terra.com.br>