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740-144 Music Cultures of Asia & the Pacific | |
Availability | Offered in alternate years. Not offered in 2000. |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
HECS Band | 1 |
Coordinator | Dr C Falk |
Prerequisites | Faculty Musicianship Test or 740-139 Introduction to Music 1-2. For International Students a score of 6.5 on IELTS or a pass in AESL1. |
Semester | Not Offered (view timetable) |
Contact | Two 1-hour lectures and one 1-hour tutorial per week |
Subject Description | Students will have an overview of the major musical cultures of our region, a basic knowledge of the ethnomusicological methods used to study various music cultures and a capacity to identify aurally the musics studied. Topics covered include introduction to the key issues and concepts of ethnomusicology, its theory and methodology, and case studies of various genres, for example, the bamboo ensembles of the 'Are'Are people of the Solomon Islands; Balinese gamelan; Chinese Opera; North Indian classical music, song cycles from Arnhem Land, Australia; Japanese Gagaku; Mongolian song genres. |
Assessment | Written project of 500 words (10%); listening and short answer test (50%); essay (40%). |
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