MUSA131-15S1 (C) Semester One 2015

Organum to Autotune

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 23 February 2015
End Date: Sunday, 28 June 2015
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 8 March 2015
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 24 May 2015

Description

An overview of Western music history from Medieval times to the present day, including the development of music notation systems, instruments, performance techniques, basic musical structures and genres, and the growth of the "music industry".

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Research Assignment 17 Mar 2015 20%
Essay 28 Apr 2015 25% (1500 to 2000 words)
Playlist Assignment 19 May 2015 25%
Listening Test 02 Jun 2015 30%

Textbooks / Resources

Recommended Reading

Christoph Cox and Daniel Warner; Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music ; Bloomsbury, 2004.

Peter Burkholder, Claude Palisca, and Donald Grout; A History of Western Music ; 9th; Norton, 2014.

Additional Course Outline Information

Assessment and grading system

The following shows how to translate grades to numerical scores:

A+  90–100;    A   85–89;    A-  80–84;    B+   75–79;    B 70–74;    B-   65–69;     C+  60–64;     C  55–59;     C- 50–54;     D  40–49;   E  0–39
In a course at 100- or 200-level examiners may grant restricted credit (R) which will be equivalent to a pass for all purposes except as a prerequisite.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $778.00

International fee $3,450.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Humanities .

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