The musicology program includes research in music-historical and ethnomusicological studies, popular music and jazz, film music, opera, vocal traditions and music from various interdisciplinary perspectives. This entails that theoretical as well as methodological approaches vary, from studying source material and analysis to the multimedial and performance related.

Through its staff, musicology has an international network that includes participation in different research networks, projects and international publications. The staff's roots in five different nations strengthens the international perspective in the research activities.