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. Kate Guthrie |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
Students on this module will usually have taken MUSI10045 or MUSI10046, or be able to demonstrate an equivalent level of skill |
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.
In any given year, Approaches to Music History I (and its sister unit Approaches to Music History II) have different specific themes that are used to develop a problem-orientated approach to the study and writing of music history. In the past, such themes have been (but will in the future not restricted to), among others, Music and Politics, Words and Music, Music and the Past, or Music in the 1930s.
Intended Learning Outcomes Successful completion of this unit will enable students to:
Teaching will be delivered through a combination of synchronous and asynchronous sessions, including lectures and self-directed exercises. Participation in group workshops within the Music Futures programme.
2000-word assessed essay (50%) demonstrating ILOs 1-4
One 7 minute group podcast (groups of 2 or 3), demonstrating ILOs 1, 3, 4. A new ILO 5 is required: "Clearly present their understanding of the unit's topics to a non specialist audience"
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 Vkev (eds.), De-canonizing Music History (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publ., 2009) Richard Taruskin, The Oxford History of Western Music (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005)