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| Module Availability |
Semester 2 |
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| Assessment Pattern |
Coursework. Three items will be submitted. The mark achieved in Coursework 1 or 2 (whichever is the higher) will be combined with the mark achieved in Coursework 3 to calculate the overall module mark.
Coursework 1: a written analytical study (not more than 1200 words) of an excerpt from one of Mahler’s works.
Coursework 2: an essay (not more than 1200 words) addressing performance issues relating to a selected work by Mahler - 40%
Coursework 3: an essay (not more than 2000 words) addressing an aspect of the cultural-historical context, significance or interpretation of Mahler’s music - 60%
You will need to achieve a weighted aggregate mark of 40%. |
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| Module Overview |
| The purpose of this module is to explore Mahler’s music from analytical, performance-practice and cultural-historical perspectives. |
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| Prerequisites/Co-requisites |
| A pass in one of the HE2 18th-, 19th-, or 20th/21st-Century Studies modules. |
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| Module Aims |
| The aim of this module is to develop your historical, analytical, cultural and performance-related understanding of Mahler’s music |
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| Learning Outcomes |
By the end of the module, you should be able to:
• Demonstrate extensive knowledge of Mahler’s repertoire and its historical/cultural contexts.
• Identify, and demonstrate critical understanding of, significant historical, analytical, cultural and performance-related aspects of Mahler’s music.
• Demonstrate the ability to interrelate and integrate historical, cultural, analytical and performance-based discussion of Mahler’s music.
Transferable skills:
• Ability to think critically and analytically to a high level.
• Ability to present advanced and cogent written argument.
• Ability to undertake advanced research in order to locate pertinent evidence and data.
• Ability to process detailed evidence and data in support of arguments.
• Ability to synthesize thinking.
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| Module Content |
Critical study of topics in the historical, analytical and interpretative study of Mahler’s music, including:
• Harmonic and motivic techniques.
• Structural deformation.
• Textural, timbral and expressive techniques.
• Relations between song and symphony.
• Literary and philosophical contexts and meanings.
• Reception history.
• Popular appropriation.
• Interpretations in performance.
• Compositional influences and legacy.
• Late-romantic/early modernist cultural contexts.
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| Methods of Teaching/Learning |
• Lectures.
• Tutorials.
• Guided reading.
• Producing a researched essay/musical analysis.
• Class discussion.
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| Selected Texts/Journals |
Recommended:
Barham, Jeremy (ed.), 2007: The Cambridge Companion to Mahler (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press) .
Barham, Jeremy (ed.), 2005: Perspectives on Gustav Mahler (Aldershot: Ashgate).
de La Grange, Henry-Louis, 1976-2007: Gustav Mahler (4 vols) (London: Gollancz, and Oxford:
Oxford University Press).
Hefling, Stephen (ed.), 1997: Mahler Studies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
Mitchell, Donald, and Nicholson, Andrew (eds), 2002: The Mahler Companion (Oxford: Oxford
University Press).
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| Last Updated |
| 11.04.11 |
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