Details for Musicology

Music is something we enjoy, whether performing or listening. But beyond how we subconsciously engage with music, how can music be understood? How do we make meaning out of music? Why does it work the way it does? This unit equips students with the knowledge and tools to analyse music in its various forms – performed, recorded, and written.

Quick Info

Currently offered by Alphacrucis: Yes
Course code: MUS451
Credit points: 10
Subject coordinator: Daniel Thornton

Prerequisites

Nil

Awards offering Musicology

This unit is offered as a part of the following awards:

Unit Content

Outcomes

Consider bias-aware strategies to appraising music;
Develop aural skills to assess, and oral skills to explain musical works;
Analyse music as encountered in a broad range of historical, social, cultural, performative, notational, and mediated contexts; and
Critique common methods and methodologies for analysing music.

Subject Content

Introduction to musical analysis
Why music matters
Personal musical biases
Aural perception skills
Musicology and Historical Musicology
Ethnomusicology and Ethnography
Theomusicology
Popular Music Studies and Vernacular Music Studies
Sociomusicology and Phenomenology
Liturgical and Ritual Studies, Music Semiology
Interdisciplinarity in studying music
Limits of studying music, and revision

This course may be offered in the following formats

Face to Face (on site)
E-learning (online)
Intensive

Please consult your course prospectus or enquire about how and when this course will be offered next at Alphacrucis University College.

Assessment Methods

Forums (25%)
Oral Presentation (25%)
Major Essay (50%)

Prescribed Text

Primary readings provided