Faculty of Music : Guide to courses

9. Electives

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 9. Electives

For non-music electives, students may take a minimum of 25 points up to a maximum of 50 points of subjects in other Faculties (75 points for musicology students). In choosing these, students are urged to consider in particular foreign languages relevant to musical study, comparative studies in the arts, religion of philosophy, or subjects considering political, social or economic factors which affect the arts.

In addition, the following music elective subjects are available. The academic electives are available in years 3 and 4 and in the graduate programs. Each is worth 12.5 points. Academic electives are offered in rotation (four per semester):

Academic electives

• Music Aesthetics(not offered in 1999)

• Music Analysis

• Music Criticism

• Music Iconography (not offered in 1999)

• Music of Spain(not offered in 1999)

• Music Palaeography

• Musical Acoustics(not offered in 1999)

• Musicological Research Method 1

• Musicological Research Method 2

• Orchestration and Arrangement

• Sixteenth Century Music Techniques (not offered in 1999)

• Special Study

• Studies in Opera

• Style Analysis

• Theory and Method in Ethnomusicology

• Topics in Australian Music (not offered in 1999)

• Topics in Baroque Music (not offered in 1999)

• Topics in Ethnomusicology: Musics of Indonesia

• Topics in Medieval and Renaissance Music

• Topics in Musicology (not offered in 1999)

Applied Electives

• Basso Continuo

• Basso Continuo (Advanced)

• Chamber Music

• Conducting

• Early Keyboard Studies (not offered in 1999)

• Introduction to Electro-Acoustic Music

• Keyboard Accompaniment

• Language and Diction (voice students only)

• Minor Practical Study (restricted availability)

• Performance Practice (Early Music)

• Renaissance Dance

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