Course

Introduction to Musicology - MUSC2111

Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

School: School of the Arts and Media

Course Outline: School of the Arts and Media

Campus: Kensington Campus

Career: Undergraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3

Enrolment Requirements:

Prerequisite: 30 uoc at Level 1 including MUSC1001 and MUSC1312; Excluded: MUSC1101

CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

Available for General Education: Yes (more info)

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Description

This course offers an introduction to musicology, the systematic study of music. This is undertaken through the detailed study of European concert music of the period 1890-1940, and through engagement with the challenges offered by Ethnomusicology, the ethnographically informed study of Music. It aims to develop students’ critical thinking in areas of historiography, musical meaning, and aesthetics.

It applies students developing skills in Musicianship, particularly those of analysis and aural perception, and introduces further methodologies employed in upper level courses in Music. It develops student knowledge of exemplary works of Western classical music and jazz, and how to critically discuss such music within the disciplinary conventions of musicology.

The course will develop the skills involved in scholarly enquiry in Music, and the capacity for analytical and critical thinking and for creative problem solving, both in general and in a manner specific to the discipline.
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