MUSI103-13S1 (C) Semester One 2013

From Notre Dame to Radiohead: 10 Ideas that Shaped Western Music

This occurrence is not offered in 2013

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 18 February 2013
End Date: Sunday, 23 June 2013
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 3 March 2013
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 19 May 2013

Description

From the Cathedrals of the Middle Ages, to Rock music and Globalisation in the 20th and 21st centuries, this introductory course explores a number of key personalities, ideas and developments that helped shape Western music. In the process it critically examines the nature and limitations of style categories such as ‘classical’ and ‘popular’, and gives examples of the complex relationship between music and social, political and economic forces. Prior knowledge of music history or music notation is not needed to take this course.

Outline of the Course

Week 1:  Music:  Organised Sound?  The labelling problem
Week 2:  Notating Music:  from Petrucci to pdfs
Week 3:  Recording, from cylinders to samples:  Mr Edison to Missy Elliott
Week 4:  Notre Dame and the Invention of Polyphony:  from organum to the Art of Fugue
Week 5:  Paying the Piper:  muses and markets, patrons and pop music
Week 6: (Good Friday - no lecture)
Week 7:  Organum to Autotune:  the voice and the word in music
Week 8:  The Virtuoso:  performance and display - Paganini, Hendrix, and beyond
Week 9:  Music and Theatre, Music with Images:  Euridice to YouTube
Week 10: Avant-Gardes:  from Ars Nova to Darmstadt
Week 11: Authenticity, the Personal Voice, and Ownership:  Robert Johnson, Jordi Savall and Thom Yorke
Week 12:  Listening Test / What's Simmering?  - new ideas making an impact on music today

Restrictions

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Jonathan Le Cocq

Lecturer

Glenda Keam

LECTURER:   James Gardner

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Essay 28 Mar 2013 25%
Review Assignment 02 May 2013 25%
Interview/Research Assignment 16 May 2013 25%
Listening Test 31 May 2013 25%

Textbooks / Resources

Course Reader available on LEARN

Additional Course Outline Information

Late submission of work

All coursework must be submitted by the due date and time.  In the case of illness or critical circumstance which might make it impossible for an item to be submitted in time, contact must be made with the Course Coordinator before the due date and application made for an extension of time.  The application must explain the circumstances of the delay, and any extension will be at the discretion of the Course Coordinator.

Where to submit and collect work

All essay and assignment material must be firmly secured (stapled, or bound in a folder), and contain on the front page or cover the following information:  Student name, Course number, Lecturer.   Unless the class is instructed to the contrary, the assignment should be posted in the appropriate box at the School of Music counter by the due date.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $719.00

International fee $3,325.00

* 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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