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740-349 Music Criticism | |
Availability | Offered in alternate years. |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
Coordinator | Dr K Murphy |
Prerequisites | BMus Year 2. |
Semester | 1 (view timetable) |
Contact | Two hours a week of seminars for one semester in third or fourth year |
Subject Description | Students develop the ability to look critically at some of the assumptions underlying the study and practice of music; study writings on the nature and value of musical works; come to understand the historical and social background to the development of professional music criticism; gain insight into the critical process both in academic and journalistic criticism and become aware of the problems involved in the discipline. Topics covered include 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%) and an essay of up to 3000 words (50%). |
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