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 740-265 Music In Australia

Availability

Offered in alternate years.

Credit Points

12.5

HECS Band

1

Coordinator

Professor W Bebbington

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

1 (view timetable)

Contact

Two lectures and one tutorial 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 tutorial projects (25%); mid-semester project (25%); 2 hour written examination (50%).

Prescribed Texts

  • Bebbington, Warren, Oxford Companion to Australian Music. Melbourne: Oxford Univ. Press, 1997.


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