740-105 Music and Ideas

Faculty Musicianship Test or 740-139 Discovering Music 2. For international students, a score of 6.5 on IELTS or a pass in AESL1.

A cross-cultural study of music-making, and musical structures, styles and meaning. Using a comparative approach based on their experience of and reflections about the nature of music in their own life and community, students are introduced to systems of musical organisation in their social and cosmological contexts from other societies, particularly in Asia, the Pacific, and Africa.

On completion of this subject, students should be able (a) to make informed and sophisticated critical responses to a diversity of music, new ideas, methodologies and theoretical frameworks in the discipline of music (b) to work competently and productively both alone and in groups (c) to use current technologies to facilitate and heighten the acquisition knowledge and information (d) to write in a scholarly manner.

A group assignment of 500 words each (10%); participation in tutorials (10%); a listening test of 45 minutes (25%); a short-answer test of 45 minutes (25%); an essay of 2000 words (30%).

• David Reck, Music of the Whole Earth. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1977.