Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Music (Volume 3 page 238)
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Elective Music subject.
Credit points: 10.0
Coordinator: Dr C Falk.
Prerequisite: Music in Society.
Contact: Two 1-hour lectures and one 1-hour tutorial per week.
Timetable: First semester
Objectives:
On completion of this subject students should have an overview of the world's major musical cultures, a basic knowledge of the ethnomusicological methods used to study various music cultures and a capacity to evaluate writings in this field.
Content:
Introduction to the key issues and concepts of ethnomusicology, its theory and methodology, and case studies of various genres, for example, the bamboo ensembles of the 'are'are people of the Solomon Islands; Balinese gamelan; Chinese Opera; Ghanaian drum ensembles, North Indian classical music, and a song cycle from northeast Arnhem Land, Australia.
Assessment:
Written project of 3,000 words (35 per cent); Listening test (35 per cent); Transcription assignment or case study (30 per cent).
Prescribed texts:
1. Music, Faculty of Music (v3, p238) : Next:740-350 | Prev:740-349
2. Music, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p153) : Next:740-265 | Prev:740-410
Elementary Stream Music subject.
Credit points: 11.1
Coordinator: Dr C Falk.
Prerequisite: 740-142 Music in Society or approved equivalent.
Contact: Two 1-hour lectures and one 1-hour tutorial each week.
Timetable: First semester.
Objectives:
On completion of this subject students should have:
- an overview of the world's major musical cultures;
- a basic knowledge of the ethnomusicological methods used to study various music cultures; and
- a capacity to evaluate writings in this field.
Content:
Introduction to the key issues and concepts of ethnomusicology, its theory and methodology, and case studies of various genres, for example, the bamboo ensembles of the 'are'are people of the Solomon islands; Balinese gamelan; Chinese Opera; Ghanaian drum ensembles, North Indian classical music, and a song cycle from northeast Arnhem Land, Australia.
Assessment:
Written project of 3,000 words (35 per cent); listening test (35 per cent); transcription assignment or case study (30 per cent).
Prescribed texts:
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2. Music, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p153) : Next:740-265 | Prev:740-410
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