Ethnomusicology Seminar 1

Subject 740-507 (2008)

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Credit Points: 12.500
Level: Graduate/Postgraduate
Dates & Locations:

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2008:

Semester 1, - Taught on campus.
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Semester 2, - Taught on campus.
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Time Commitment: Contact Hours: Two hours per week during semester.
Total Time Commitment: Not available
Prerequisites:

Permission of subject coordinator .

Corequisites: None
Recommended Background Knowledge: None
Non Allowed Subjects: None
Core Participation Requirements:

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Coordinator

Professor Catherine Falk
Subject Overview:

Students will acquire critical interpretative and analytical skills in musical ethnography. Issues examined include: the nature of intercultural communication, orality and literacy in music; case studies of ethnographic representations of music; the role and techniques of transcription and analysis in ethnomusicology; and organological classification systems in ethnomusicology .

Assessment:

A transcription exercise of 3 minutes of music (20%); A journal, recording summaries of assigned readings and tasks (30%); A 20-minute seminar presentation of a written paper (2,500 words) (20%); A 2,000-word essay (30%).

Prescribed Texts: None
Recommended Texts:

Myers, Helen ed. Ethnomusicology: an introduction. New York, London: Norton, 1992.

Breadth Options:

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.
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Generic Skills:

On completion of this subject, students should:

  • Be able to apply existing theoretical frameworks and develop their own conceptual strategies in writing about, analysing, interpreting and teaching musical traditions other than western art music;
  • Have acquired skills in transcription and analysis;
  • Be able to use the Sachs/Hornbostel system in conjunction with indigenous systems of classification and description of musical instruments.
Related Course(s): Master of Music (Music Performance)
Master of Music (Musicology/Ethnomusicology)
Master of Music Studies by Coursework(Musicology/Ethnomusicology)

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