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As a result of College adapting your modules to combine face-to-face on campus and online teaching and learning support, the breakdown of notional learning hours set out under the heading “Technical Requirements” below may not necessarily reflect how each module will be delivered this year. Further details relating to this will be made available by your department and will be updated as part of the student timetable. |
| MU 1114 - A Very Short History of Music |
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Associated Term:
2024/25 Academic Session
Learning Objectives: This course introduces a wide range of repertories within the history of music. It stimulates students to relate features of musical compositions and performances to their wider historical contexts and gives students a fundamental knowledge of specific musical cultures. It provides students with opportunities to develop skills in research and information retrieval and in critical reading of primary and secondary literature, to receive formative feedback on those skills, and to build a foundation for higher-level study. The course will offer students a conceptual map of musical styles, composers and practices by introducing them to a wide chronological range of repertories, from early music to music of the twentieth century. It will emphasise questions of change, interaction and transmission through the study of specific forms and repertories in their historical context. Lectures will be designed around major repertorial moments (e.g. Stravinsky in 1910) or problems (e.g. the post-Beethovenian symphony), to bring together questions of form, style, performing practice and historical context.
Learning Outcomes:
show they have begun to develop techniques of historical and critical writing about music
identify and place characteristic features of compositional style and process within a wide range of historical periods
discuss features of musical compositions and performances and to relate those features to their historical contexts
identify, retrieve and evaluate appropriate primary and secondary sources relevant to the study of a range of musics
Required Materials: Click here for the reading list system Technical Requirements: The total number of notional learning hours associated with module is 150. These will normally be broken down as follows: 10 hour(s) of Lecture(s) across 10 week(s) 10 hour(s) of Seminar(s) across 10 week(s) 130 hours of Guided Independent Study Formative Assessment: Quizzes, in-class activities, and discussion of essay plans and work-in-progress Summative Assessment: Essay (1500 words) - 50% Essay (1750 words) - 50% |
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