Contemporary Music

Learning Outcomes

• Students who pass this course will:
  
• Be familiar with selected trends, styles and techniques in western music in the 20th/21st centuries from the inter-war period onward.
  
• Be able to relate these developments to their economic, social, ideological, technological and/or cultural context, and to concepts such as modernism, postmodernism, tradition and counter-culture.
  
• Be familiar with methods, approaches and live issues in music historical research.
  
• Be able to use primary source documents relevant to musicological research.
  
• Possess skills in using library and information resources related to musicology, including library databases, bibliographic tools, scholarly editions, and electronic resources.
  
• Be able to demonstrate oral and written communication skills, including language appropriate for scholarly communication.
  
• Have a professional attitude to research and to the dissemination and public discussion of music history and culture.

University Graduate Attributes

This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:

	Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.
	Employable, innovative and enterprising Students will develop key skills and attributes sought by employers that can be used in a range of applications.
	Globally aware Students will comprehend the influence of global conditions on their discipline and will be competent in engaging with global and multi-cultural contexts.

Prerequisites

Restrictions

For further information see Creative and Digital Arts .