Impressionism to Postmodernism in Music

This subject is not offered in 2013.

120 hours

Musical literacy, to a standard equivalent to AMEB grade 4 or higher.

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.

In this subject, we explore representative styles of Western art music from 1900 to the present. The music will be examined from a number of perspectives including nationalist and internationalist currents, modernist tendencies and the quest for order and disorder, and with reference to wider socio-cultural contexts. The music of Australia will also be studied in relation to corresponding global trends.

On completion of this subject students should be able to:

• understand and contextualise music from the 20 th century to the present
• undertake basic scholarly work using the bibliographic tools of music to discuss the music of the period covered

Three tutorial assignments of 400 words each, due in week 4, 7 and 10, respectively (30% - 10% for each assignment); essay of 2000 words, due in week 12 (50%); one-hour listening-based examination, held during the examination period (20%).

The Norton Anthology of Western Music, 6th ed., vol. 3, ed. J. Peter Burkholder, Claude V. Palisca (New York: Norton, 2009) and a Reader, which will be available for purchase from the University Bookshop.

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

On completion of this subject students will have developed:

• a capacity for independent critical thought
• an openness to new ideas
• knowledge, skills and practices which provide a basis for independent critical inquiry and research-based writing