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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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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Music (Volume 3 page 242)
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