Faculty of Arts
Music History

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1. Faculty of Arts requirements
2. Prerequisites
3. Requirements for a major
4. Honours entry
5. Honours requirements
5.1. Combined honours
6. Further study
7. For more information

The Faculty of Music offers a major and combined honours program in music history to Bachelor of Arts students.

1. Faculty of Arts requirements

Students undertaking the Bachelor of Arts are permitted to enrol in a range of subjects offered by other faculties, however students must complete a minimum of 50 points of first-year subjects and 100 points of second/third-year subjects in areas of study approved by the Faculty of Arts, see Arts-approved subject requirement for more information.

BA combined course students are not permitted to enrol in these subjects for credit towards the arts component of the combined degree. Please consult a Faculty of Arts course adviser for more information.

2. Prerequisites

Arts students who have a background in music may wish to enrol in any of the four first-year music history subjects. To do so, students must undertake the Faculty of Music Musicianship Test to determine whether they have the musical aptitude to complete the subjects. This test will be held during Orientation, the week before the start of Semester 1, at the Faculty of Music. Students should register for the test with the Faculty of Music prior to Orientation.

The general prerequisite for second and third-year music history subjects is successful completion of two first-year music history subjects (25 points).

3. Requirements for a major

A major in music history usually consists of nine 12.5 point subjects totalling 112.5 points. It comprises:

two first-year subjects in music history (25 points); and
three second-year subjects in music history (37.5 points); and
four third-year subjects in music history (50 points).

The major in music history has two structures. Students with no previous musical training commence study in a subject that has no prerequisite requirements and assumes no prior musical knowledge (in 2007, 740-123 Unplugged Music 1100 to 1800). Students who undertake and pass the Faculty of Music Musicianship Test can enrol directly in two of the four core music history subjects in their first year.

The major in music history is completed as follows:

1. For students with no prior music study

First year		Semester
	740-123 Unplugged Music 1100 to 1800	1, repeat 2
	740-149 Baroque and Classical Music	2

Second year
	740-141 Music Techniques 1-1	1, repeat Summer
	740-202 Impressionism to Postmodernism	2
	one music history or academic elective subject

Third year
	740-129 Music Techniques 1-2	2, repeat Summer
	740-201 Nineteenth Century Music and Society	1
	two music history elective subjects.

2. For students with some musical background

First year		Semester
	740-149 Baroque and Classical Music	2
	one music history or academic elective subject

Second year
	740-141 Music Techniques 1-1	1, repeat Summer
	740-201 Nineteenth Century Music and Society	1
	740-202 Impressionism to Postmodernism	2

Third year
	740-129 Music Techniques 1-2	2, repeat Summer
	three music history elective subjects.

See under combined honours for musicology studies subjects and the list of areas of study available in the Faculty of Music.

Music history and academic electives

Academic electives available in 2007		Points
	740-310 Court, Church and Urban Music 1450-1600	12.5
	740-312 Notation and Music Editing	12.5
	740-341 Music Cultures of Asia	12.5
	740-353 The Music Of Spain	12.5
	740-359 Musicological Research Methods 1 (with permission of the Faculty of Music)	12.5
	740-449 Music Criticism	12.5
	740-464 Paris! Berlioz to the Ballets Russes	12.5
	740-465 Women in Music	12.5
	740-470 Historical Performance Practice	12.5

4. Honours entry

The prerequisites for entry to fourth-year combined honours in music history are:

completion of all the requirements for the BA; and
completion of a major in music history which must include the subject 740-359 Musicological Research Methods 1; and
completion of a major in another area of study; and
an average grade of H2B or higher over the second/third-year subjects within the music history major.

For information on how to apply see Applying for Honours.

5. Honours requirements

5.1. Combined honours

Students undertaking combined honours in music history must complete:

740-462 Dissertation (37.5 points); and
two musicology studies subjects (25 points); and
three honours subjects in the combined area of study (37.5 points).

honours thesis in the combined area of study (37.5 points); and
two honours subjects in the combined area of study (25 points); and
three musicology studies subjects (37.5 points).

Honours subjects

	740-300 In the Groove	Not Offered
	740-301 Music and Film since 1900	1
	740-310 Court, Church and Urban Music 1450-1600	1
	740-315 Romantic Piano Music	Not Offered
	740-317 Sex, Death and the Ecstatic in Music	Not Offered
	740-318 Wagner's Ring	Not Offered
	740-353 The Music Of Spain	1
	740-381 Studies In Opera	Not Offered
	740-386 Music Analysis	Not Offered
	740-409 Early Music Theory and Practice	Not Offered
	740-455 Stravinsky and Music of the 20th Century	Not Offered
	740-464 Paris! Berlioz to the Ballets Russes	2
	740-466 Music and the Shaman	Not Offered
	740-470 Historical Performance Practice	1, repeat 2

6. Further study

Contact the Research and Graduate Studies office in the Faculty of Arts and the degree programs manager in the Faculty of Music regarding postgraduate study in musicology.

7. For more information

Faculty of Music
Conservatorium of Music
The University of Melbourne
Victoria 3010
Tel: +61 3 8344 5258
Fax: +6 3 8344 5346
Email: enquiries@music.unimelb.edu.au