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1. Music, Faculty of Music (v3, p239) : Next:740-337 | Prev:740-383
Elective Music subject.
Availability: Offered in alternate years. Available in 1996.
Credit points: 10.0
Coordinator: Associate Professor Griffiths
Prerequisite: 740-142 Music in Society.
Contact: A 2-hour lecture and one tutorial per week for one semester.
Objectives:
On completion of this subject students should have acquired an extensive knowledge of repertory pertaining to the areas selected in the course for detailed study and the place of music in renaissance society; possess a working knowledge of manuscript and printed sources of the period, their notation, theoretical treatises, iconographical materials, and musicological scholarship relating to topics of study; demonstrate a capacity to evaluate modern performances of music of the period.
Content:
A study of aspects of European music and society from circa 1425 - 1600, focussing on the major genres of sacred and secular music from the period.
Assessment:
A 3-hour examination at the end of the subject (50 per cent), and a written assignment of approximately 3,000 words, due at the end of the subject (50 per cent).
Prescribed texts:
1. Music, Faculty of Music (v3, p239) : Next:740-337 | Prev:740-383
2. Music, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p153) : Next:106-283 | Prev:740-383
Elementary Stream Music subject.
Credit points: 11.1
Coordinator: Professor J Griffiths.
Prerequisite: 740-142 Music in Society or approved equivalent.
Contact: One 2-hour lecture and one tutorial each week Offered in alternate years.
Timetable: Second semester.
Objectives:
On completion of this subject students should have:
- acquired an extensive knowledge of repertory pertaining to the areas selected in the course for detailed study and the place of music in Renaissance society;
- possess a working knowledge of manuscript and printed sources of the period, their notation, theoretical treatises, iconographical materials, and musicological scholarship relating to topics of study; and
- demonstrated a capacity to evaluate modern performances of music of the period.
Content:
A study of aspects of European music and society from circa 1425-1600, focussing on the major genres of sacred and secular music from the period.
Assessment:
A 3-hour examination (50 per cent), and a written assignment of approximately 3,000 words (50 per cent).
Prescribed texts:
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