Sex, Death and the Ecstatic in Music
Subject MUSI40058 (2010)
Note: This is an archived Handbook entry from 2010.
Credit Points: | 12.50 | ||||||||||||
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Level: | 4 (Undergraduate) | ||||||||||||
Dates & Locations: | This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2010: Semester 1, Parkville - Taught on campus.
Timetable can be viewed here. For information about these dates, click here. | ||||||||||||
Time Commitment: | Contact Hours: 1 two-hour seminar per week Total Time Commitment: 120 hours | ||||||||||||
Prerequisites: | AMEB Grade 5 or equivalent, or permission of the coordinator | ||||||||||||
Corequisites: | N/A | ||||||||||||
Recommended Background Knowledge: | N/A | ||||||||||||
Non Allowed Subjects: | N/A | ||||||||||||
Core Participation Requirements: | It is University policy to take all reasonable steps to minimise the impact of disability upon academic study, and reasonable adjustments will be made to enhance a student's participation in the University's programs. Students who feel their disability will impact on meeting the requirements of this subject are encouraged to discuss this matter with a Faculty Student Adviser and the Disability Liaison Unit. |
Contact
VCA and Music Student Centre234 St Kilda Rd, Southbank
Tel: +61 3 9685 9322
Fax: +61 3 9685 9358
Web: www.vcam.unimelb.edu.au/contact_us.html
School of Music - Parkville
Conservatorium Building
Tel: +61 3 8344 5256
Fax: +61 3 8344 5346
Email via: http://music-unimelb.custhelp.com
Web: www.bmus.unimelb.edu.au and www.music.unimelb.edu.au
Subject Overview: |
An examination of examples of Western music from Hildegaard to the present, including some twentieth-century “popular” songs, which contain one or all of the themes of sex, death, and the ecstatic in their compositional circumstances, title, pre-compositional intent, or lyrics (if song or aria). Consideration of these works will be viewed through perspectives from key cultural theories of the late-twentieth or early twenty-first century. |
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Objectives: | On completion of this subject students should have gained a deeper understanding of, and knowledge of contemporary attitudes towards, music that embodies the elements of sex, death, and/or the ecstatic in music. |
Assessment: |
Four short assignments of 300 words each due throughout the semester (30%); mid-semester written-up class presentation of 1200 words (40%); essay of 1600 words due one week after the end of semester (40%). |
Prescribed Texts: | A reading pack will be available for purchase from the Melbourne University Bookshop before the start of semester. |
Breadth Options: | This subject is not available as a breadth subject. |
Fees Information: | Subject EFTSL, Level, Discipline & Census Date |
Generic Skills: | On completion of this subject students should have developed:
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