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.

In this subject students are asked to think critically about the broad contexts of music-making and the musical experience using an ethnomusicological approach. Themes and issues developed in lectures and tutorials include music as a knowledge system; words, speech and music; music in oral traditions; musical literacy; the uses and functions of music; music and identity, class and politics; music in the global cultural flow; the implications of and effects on music of sound-recording technologies. Musical examples are drawn primarily from majority world cultures, especially Asia, the Pacific and Africa.

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

Contribution to tutorial discussions (10%); two tutorial assignments of 1000 words each due during the semester (20% each); a listening test at the end of semester (20%); a 2000-word essay due after the end of semester (30%).

A reading pack will be available for purchase before the commencement of the subject.