740-110 Western Music 1750 to Present

Availability

Offered in alternate years

Credit Points

12.5

HECS Band

1

Coordinator

Dr Kerry Murphy

Prerequisites

Faculty musicianship test or 740-139 Discovering Music 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

Subject Description

Topics covered include an overview of musical works and ideas in the West from 1750 to the present; and critical and research methods basic to the scholarly study of music. Representative works of the major periods are introduced in their social contexts.

Assessment

Written projects to a total of 2000 words (50%); end-of-semester examination (50%).

Prescribed Texts

  • C V Palisca (ed.), Norton Anthology of Western Music: Vol. II Classic, Romantic, Modern. 2nd ed., Norton, 1988.


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