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| Module Availability |
| Semester 1 |
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| Assessment Pattern |
Coursework: a review of a live musical performance event on campus (450-550 words) - 40%
Listening examination (90 minutes) - 60%
If this module is core for your programme you will need to achieve a minimum of 40% for each Unit of Assessment |
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| Module Overview |
| This module provides an introduction to the variety of ways in which music may be understood. It provides a necessary foundation for work at HE2 including Musicology A. |
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| Prerequisites/Co-requisites |
None
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| Module Aims |
• To inform your understanding of music (art-music in the Western tradition, popular music and world music) by introducing a range of scholarly approaches to the subject.
• To deepen your musical perception towards the level necessary to engage with both familiar and unfamiliar music at HE2.
• To develop your study skills to the level required by undergraduate work.
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| Learning Outcomes |
By the end of the module you should be able to:
• Respond to several recorded excerpts referring to musical, aesthetic and socio-historical/cultural features as appropriate.
• Write a critical review of a campus-based live musical performance event, utilising appropriate yet vivid descriptive language.
• Demonstrate ability to access physical and online research resources in the library and through the library webpage.
• Cite and reference the work of others correctly.
• Compile a bibliography following departmental guidelines.
Transferable skills:
• Written communication skills.
• Ability to access the University’s learning resources including IT resources.
• Work effectively as part of a team.
• Awareness of ethical issues in academic work such as acknowledgement of sources.
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| Module Content |
• Deconstruction of terms such as ‘listening’ and ‘understanding’.
• The nature and formation of musical canons.
• Music criticism and performance.
• Musical semiotics.
• Musical historiography.
• Focussed listening sessions.
• Modes of study at undergraduate level.
• Essay planning, including the construction of bibliographies.
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| Methods of Teaching/Learning |
• Lectures.
• In-class discussions.
• Workshops.
• Study groups (to which all students are assigned).
• Module reader including key texts.
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| Selected Texts/Journals |
Compulsory Reading:
Beard, David and Gloag, Kenneth, 2005: Musicology: The Key Concepts (London: Routledge).
Cook, Nicholas, 1998: Music: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
Recommended Reading:
Rowell, Lewis, 1984: Thinking About Music: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Music (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press).
Small, Christopher, 1996: Music, Society, Education (Hanover N.H.; London: University Press of New England).
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| Last Updated |
01.11.10
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