Unit name | Approaches to Music History I |
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Unit code | MUSI20142 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | I/5 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
Unit director | Dr. Heldt |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | Department of Music |
Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
Recent research in musicology (including work done by staff in this department) has sought to position the repertoires and musical practices of past centuries in relation to broader social, political, technological and cultural trends of their age. This unit seeks to pursue that agenda in relation to key works, composers, performers and genres, which will be interrogated in depth and in different contexts, with the aim of allowing students to learn both about music history and about the ways of thinking about, researching and writing about music history. Classes will be a mixture of formal lectures, student presentations and discussion. Where appropriate, the unit will combine detailed historical study of a specified core area of the Western musical canon with in-depth consideration of contemporary cultural issues and intellectual debates touching on music and the study of music.
Successful completion of this unit will enable students to
2-hour lectures/classes with student presentations
3000-word assessed essay (50%) and 2-hour examination (50%)
Marcia Citron, Gender and the Musical Canon (Cambridge, 1993) Martin Clayton, Trevor Herbert, Richard Middleton (eds.), The Cultural Study of Music (New York, London: Rutledge, 2003) Carl Dahlhaus, Foundations of Music History, transl. J. Bradford Robinson (Cambridge, 1982) Lydia Goehr, The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works (New York: Oxford University Press, 22007) Vesa Kurkela, Lauri V�kev� (eds.), De-canonizing Music History (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publ., 2009) Richard Taruskin, The Oxford History of Western Music (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005)