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| Module Availability |
| Semester 2 |
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| Assessment Pattern |
Coursework: an essay of not more than 2000 words - 50%
Listening examination (90 minutes) - 50%
If this module is core for your programme you will need to achieve a minimum of 40% for each Unit of Assessment. if the module is not core you will need to achieve a weighted aggregate mark of 40% |
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| Module Overview |
| This module builds on work undertaken in Understanding Music A through topics examining music from wider social and cultural perspectives. |
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| Prerequisites/Co-requisites |
| HE1 Understanding Music A. |
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| Module Aims |
• To further inform your understanding of music (art-music in the Western tradition, popular music and world music) by examining significant sociological and cultural approaches to the subject.
• To inform your musical perception through knowledge of the above approaches.
• To further develop your study skills to the level required at HE2.
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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 clearly structured essay comparing two pieces of scholarly writing on music and referring to relevant repertoire.
Transferable skills:
• Written communication skills.
• Ability to access the University’s learning resources including IT resources.
• Work effectively as part of a team and meet your obligations to others.
• Awareness of ethical issues in academic work such as acknowledgement of sources.
• Demonstrate an awareness and understanding of other cultures.
• Communicate clearly to individuals and groups.
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| Module Content |
• An introduction to socio-cultural approaches to music.
• Music and gender.
• Music and politics.
• Music and national identity.
• Postmodernism in music.
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| Methods of Teaching/Learning |
• Lectures.
• In-class discussions.
• Group presentations.
• 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:
Scott, Derek, B. ed., 2000: Music, Culture and Society: a Reader (Oxford: OUP).
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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