
- UCAS course code
- WW34
- UCAS institution code
- M20
Course unit details:
Advanced study in Musicology A
Unit code | MUSC30510 |
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Credit rating | 20 |
Unit level | Level 3 |
Teaching period(s) | Full year |
Offered by | Music |
Available as a free choice unit? | Yes |
Overview
Advanced Study options offer the opportunity for in-depth study around specific subjects relating to the research of the academic teaching each of the options. Each of the options are designed to support develop and refine the historical and critical approaches in musicology covered in previous years of the programme to a higher level.
Students taking MUSC30510 take one of the options on offer. The topics for 2022-23 are:
Semester 1
Restoration Music in the Afterlife: Purcell and the Politics of Reception History (Prof. Rebecca Herissone)
Semester 2
Music in Bollywood (Dr Chloë Alaghband-Zadeh)
Beethoven: Life, Works, and Cultural Context (Prof. Barry Cooper)
Pre/co-requisites
Available as Free Choice (UG) or to other programmes (PG)? | Yes, 'Prerequisite in a relevant Level 2 Music course, or by agreement with the Course Director’ |
Aims
This course-unit aims to enable students to study a particular topic within a current branch of musicology in depth.
Knowledge and understanding
- demonstrate detailed knowledge and conceptual understanding of the selected topic and related issues
- demonstrate a good command of the available secondary literature
Intellectual skills
- synthesize and evaluate a wide range of material relating to the topic
- interpret primary texts, engage with secondary literature, and formulate their own arguments
Practical skills
- articulate, discuss and support findings coherently in both written and verbal form
- work effectively both independently and in groups towards clearly delineated goals
Transferable skills and personal qualities
- produce high-quality work independently with self-motivation and critical self-awareness
- demonstrate well-developed skills in the use of library and resources
Employability skills
- Analytical skills
- Analysing and understanding ideas at a high level from diverse areas of musicology
- Oral communication
- Communicate ideas and information clearly in verbal form (presentation)
- Research
- Carrying out in-depth research independently
- Written communication
- Communicate ideas and information clearly in written form (examination)
Assessment methods
Exam | 100% |
Feedback methods
- oral feedback on presentations
- formative feedback on essays and/or mock examinations
- written feedback on examination
- additional one-to-one feedback (during the consultation hour or by making an appointment, or by email)
Recommended reading
Reading lists for each of the topics are provided by the lecturer concerned. Titles of general support include:
- Beard, David, and Kenneth Gloag, Musicology: the Key Concepts (Abingdon: Routledge, 2005)
- Born, Georgina, and David Hesmondhalgh (eds.), Western Music and its Others: Difference, Representation, and Appropriation in Music (Berkeley and London, 2000)
- Cook, Nicholas and Mark Everist (eds.), Rethinking Music (Oxford, 1999)
- Clayton, Martin, Trevor Herbert and Richard Middleton (eds.), The Cultural Study of Music: A Critical Introduction (New York and London, 2003)
- Crist, Stephen A. and Roberta Montemorra Marvin (eds.), Historical Musicology: Sources, Methods, Interpretations (Rochester, NY, 2004)
- Herbert, Trevor, Music in Words: A Guide to Researching and Writing about Music (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009)
- Korsyn, Kevin, Decentering Music: A Critique of Contemporary Musical Research (Oxford, 2003)
- Taylor, Timothy D., Beyond Exoticism: Western Music and the World (Durham, NC, 2007)
- Williams, Alastair, Constructing Musicology (London, 2001)
Study hours
Scheduled activity hours | |
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Seminars | 27 |
Independent study hours | |
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Independent study | 173 |
Teaching staff
Staff member | Role |
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Chloe Alaghband-Zadeh | Unit coordinator |
Barry Cooper | Unit coordinator |
Rebecca Herissone-Kelly | Unit coordinator |
Additional notes
Attendance at Musicology Forum (normally 2hrs every fortnight)