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 740-265 Music in Australia

Availability

Offered in alternate years.

Credit Points

12.5

Coordinator

Professor W Bebbington

Prerequisites

(for non-BMus students) Faculty Musicianship Test or 740-139 Introduction to Music 1-2

Contact

Two lectures and one class per week for one semester

Subject Description

Students will have a basic knowledge of Australia's various music cultures and their place in Australian society, a working knowledge of the musicological scholarship, theoretical and manuscript sources for the topics studied, and a familiarisation with available sound recordings.

Topics covered include study of Australian musical works and ideas, both of indigenous and transplanted European social groups, from oral traditions, folk, country and popular types to orchestral and choral styles.

Assessment

Regular listening tests (20%); mid-semester project of 1,500 words (40%); end of semester examination (50%).

Prescribed Texts
  • Covell, Roger, Australia's Music: Themes of a New Society. Sydney: Sun Books, 1969.
  • Bebbington, Warren, Oxford Companion to Australian Music. Melbourne: Oxford Univ. Press, 1997.
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