BA Film Studies and Music

An introduction to significant Western musical works from the 20th and 21st centuries, with emphasis on historical trends and analytical aspects.

Free Choice - Yes, but note pre-requisites below

Pre-Req: Normally MUSC 10011 or 10022

• To acquaint students with 20th- and 21st-century Western musical repertoire and trends, and with various analytical approaches thereto
• To show how historical, analytical and aesthetic issues may be mutually illuminating, especially in the most challenging musical repertoire
• To foster initiatives in project design, with a view to third-year dissertation writing

Demonstrate detailed knowledge of a selection of significant musical works from the 20th and 21st centuries, and some of their key technical features.

• Understand and evaluate musical analyses encountered in modern scholarly studies
• Identify and discuss the broad lines of Western music history since 1900 and recent discourse surrounding them

• Use a range of established techniques for analysing and interpreting musical materials
• Demonstrate improved score-reading skills

• Demonstrate enhanced interpersonal and presentational skills

• Assignments annotated and assessed via Turnitin
• Additional one-to-one feedback (during consultation hour or by making an appointment)

Indicative texts:

• Griffiths, Paul, Modern Music and After, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1995
• Ross, Alex, The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, London, Fourth Estate, 2007
• Taruskin, Richard, The Oxford History of Western Music, vols. 4 and 5, New York, Oxford University Press, 2005