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- UCAS course code
- PW30
- UCAS institution code
- M20
Course unit details:
Music post 1900
Unit code | MUSC20222 |
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Credit rating | 20 |
Unit level | Level 2 |
Teaching period(s) | Semester 2 |
Offered by | Music |
Available as a free choice unit? | Yes |
Overview
An introduction to significant Western musical works from the 20th and 21st centuries, with emphasis on historical trends and analytical aspects.
Pre/co-requisites
Unit title | Unit code | Requirement type | Description |
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Tonality: Form and Function | MUSC10011 | Pre-Requisite | Recommended |
Tonality: Motive and Meaning | MUSC10022 | Pre-Requisite | Optional |
Free Choice - Yes, but note pre-requisites below
Pre-Req: Normally MUSC 10011 or 10022
Aims
- 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
Knowledge and understanding
Demonstrate detailed knowledge of a selection of significant musical works from the 20th and 21st centuries, and some of their key technical features.
Intellectual skills
- 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
Practical skills
- Use a range of established techniques for analysing and interpreting musical materials
- Demonstrate improved score-reading skills
Transferable skills and personal qualities
- Demonstrate enhanced interpersonal and presentational skills
Employability skills
- Analytical skills
- ¿ Analytical skills applied to musical scores and texts
- Other
- ¿ Exercising initiative in both devising assignments within a loose framework ¿ Time-management and informational skills
Assessment methods
Coursework 1 | 40% |
Coursework 2 | 60% |
Feedback methods
- Assignments annotated and assessed via Turnitin
- Additional one-to-one feedback (during consultation hour or by making an appointment)
Recommended reading
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
Study hours
Scheduled activity hours | |
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Lectures | 20 |
Seminars | 10 |
Independent study hours | |
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Independent study | 170 |
Teaching staff
Staff member | Role |
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David Fanning | Unit coordinator |