Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Music (Volume 3 page 238)
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Elective Music subject.
Availability: Offered in alternate years. Available in 1996.
Credit points: 10.0
Coordinator: Dr K Murphy.
Prerequisite: Two Group A subjects.
Contact: Two hours a week of seminars for one semester in third or fourth year.
Objectives:
On completion of this subject students should have developed the ability to look critically at some of the assumptions underlying the study and practice of music; studied writings on the nature and value of musical works; come to understand the historical and social background to the development of professional music criticism; gained insight into the critical process both in academic and journalistic criticism and become aware of the problems involved in the discipline.
Content:
Theoretical and academic writings on music criticism, looking in particular at issues raised by the writings of Joseph Kerman; the history of music criticism, tracing the rise of the professional music critic; journalistic criticism and the problems encountered and created by the newspaper music critic.
Assessment:
A 3-hour end-of-semester examination (50 per cent) and an essay of up to 3,000 words (50 per cent).
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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Music (Volume 3 page 238)
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