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Music at Cambridge
The Cambridge Faculty of Music, one of the oldest and most famous
university music departments in the world, remains at the forefront of
research and education. It was awarded an "Excellent" in the Music
Teaching Quality Assessment, and its position amongst the world's leading departments of music was
confirmed in the results of the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise in which 45 per cent of its submitted
research was judged to be world-leading, with a further 40 per cent assessed as internationally excellent.
The Cambridge Faculty of Music offers wide-ranging and
stimulating courses at both undergraduate and graduate level, as well
as tremendous opportunities for all levels of practical music-making;
and through the college teaching system we give students a unique
chance to study intensively and in small groups with internationally
distinguished scholars. The Faculty is housed in the University Music
School on West Road. Around one hundred and eighty undergraduates and
forty postgraduates work in the Faculty, which has six University
Lecturers, three Readers, five Professors and large number of Affiliated
Lecturers and Research Fellows. All our teaching and much of our
research happens in the University Music School, a spacious building
completed in the early 1980s. Our facilities are amongst the best in
the country, and include the Pendlebury Music Library, the University
Concert Hall (seating 500), an Ethnomusicology Laboratory, a large
collection of historical instruments and the Centre for Music and Science
(containing a purpose-built recording studio, computing and research facilities).
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