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740-324 Topics in Ethnomusicology 3

Elective Music subject.

Availability: Offered in alternate years. Not available in 1996.

Credit points: 10.0

Coordinator: Dr Falk

Prerequisite: Music Cultures of the World: An Introduction and Permission of Dean

Contact: One 2-hour seminar per week for one semester.

Timetable: First semester

Objectives:

By end of the semester, students will have a thorough knowledge of the major musical structures and their social contexts; be able to identify aurally and critically the musical genres studied, will have acquired familiarity with the main musical terminology of the areas; have understood a variety of styles and methodologies of ethnomusicological research and be able to evaluate critically writings in this field.

Content:

A study of the musical traditions of Central and West Java and Bali, in particular, different styles of gamelan and their socio cultural contexts.

Assessment:

Two essays of up to 3,000 words each (50 per cent each), one of which will be presented as a class paper during the semester.

Prescribed texts:


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