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Provides a chronological overview of music history from at least the Renaissance to the present day, emphasising key genres, styles and composers. This course will develop the ability to recognise and contextualise a wide variety of works aurally and from score.
During the course we look at musical genres in historical context and in roughly chronological order, with occasional focus on some key composers associated with them. At the end of each term there is a test in which students need to be able to identify recorded musical extracts and answer questions relating to them.Note that in Week 1 there is a library-based tutorial at which the first assessment item will be handed out. It is vital that students attend the first lecture to be placed in a tutorial group.Topics covered include:Course introduction; the idea of musical style periods Library and research skillsRenaissance Mass, Motet and MadrigalSolo song and early operaThe baroque concerto and sonataFugueOpera and OratorioPre-classical and ClassicalSonata Forms and sonata principle (Sonata, symphony, quartet)Musical RomanticismSymphonic expansionThe tone poemThe LiedC19th opera and Music DramaMusical nationalism The concept of ModernismImpressionism, Symbolism, ExpressionismSerialismNeo-classicismA lecture outline is included in the Course Handbook which will be available for purchase at the start of the course.
MUSI102, MUSI103, MUSI123, MUSI206
Jonathan Le Cocq
.LIBRARY TESTStudents are required to attend a library training session at the start of the course which is focussed on research in music. In the course of this you will be given a test to complete independently to demonstrate familiarity with music resources in the library.IN-CLASS TESTSEach test involves a mixture of aural recognition of a range extracts (each played twice) in terms of genre, period, and characteristic stylistic traits, and analytical comments on one or more score extracts. Examples will be drawn from works studied in the preceding half semester.WRITTEN WORKThere are two written assignments each related to the work covered in each half of the semester based on the stylistic analysis covered in class and on students’ own research.
Students will need to purchase a collection of required course material from the Copy Centre which will include scores of works studied during the course. Material for listening will be available online. For additional background reading we recommend any edition of "A History of Western Music' by D.J. Grout and/or Claude Palisca.
IMPORTANT NOTE: This course covers a great deal of material in a short time. It is vital that students listen to and study the set works continuously during the course. Last-minute cramming is not an option. The course also involves studying scores. Familiarity with music notation is important.
All coursework must be submitted by the due date by being handed in at the School office, with the name of the marking tutor (Jonathan Le Cocq) and course details clearly indicated on a cover sheet. Assignments are dated by the School Administrator on submission. Assignments submitted up to one week late without prior approval will be graded, but will only be eligible for a maximum grade of C (bare pass). Assignments submitted more than one week late will not be marked.Requests for extensions must be made in advance to the marking tutor. Extensions will only be granted in serious circumstances such as illness or bereavement, and will in all cases require supporting documentation such as a medical note. Heavy workload and bunching of assignments will not be treated as adequate grounds for an extension.Always keep a spare copy of your assignment as you are expected to be able to resubmit any assignment that becomes lost.
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.
Domestic fee $675.00
International fee $3,375.00
* 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 Centre for Fine Arts Music and Theatre .