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2010/1 Module Catalogue
 Module Code: MUS3031 Module Title: 20TH-CENTURY STUDIES 1 - BRITISH MUSIC FROM ELGAR TO BRITTEN
Module Provider: Music and Sound Recording Short Name: MU3.94AC
Level: HE3 Module Co-ordinator: MARK CM Dr (Music Record)
Number of credits: 10 Number of ECTS credits: 5
 
Module Availability
Assessment Pattern
Units of Assessment
Weighting Towards Module Mark (%)
Coursework
One essay of not more than 3000 words.
 
(50% of total assessment)
Examination
A two-hour paper.
 
(50% of total assessment)
Qualifying Conditions
Module Overview
Prerequisites/Co-requisites
Module Aims
To explore a delimited repertory from the first half of the twentieth century and to address relevant historical, socio-political, and technical issues.
Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this module you should be able to:
  • outline the main developments in the styles of the composers investigated
  • describe the stylistic traits and characteristic structural procedures of the works examined
  • assess the significance of socio-political factors in the aesthetic stances of the composers investigated.
Module Content
Examination of set works from the delimited repertory within the context of musical and socio-musical developments in the first half of the twentieth-century.
Methods of Teaching/Learning
10 one-hour lectures.
You should spend your own time in getting to know the repertoire, and in engaging critically with it.
Selected Texts/Journals
Banfield, Stephen, ed. (1995): The Blackwell History of Music in Britain: The Twentieth Century (London: Blackwell).
 
Evans, Peter (1995): The Music of Benjamin Britten. 3rd ed. (London: Dent)
 
Greene, Richard (1995): Holst: The Planets (Cambridge: CUP)
 
Grimley, Dan, and Julian Rushton, eds (2004): The Cambridge Companion to Elgar (Cambridge: CUP).
 
Kennedy, Michael (2004): The Life of Elgar (Cambridge: CUP).
 
Whittall, Arnold (1990): The Music of Britten and Tippett: Studies in Themes and Techniques, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: CUP).
Last Updated
25.07.07