Music History 3:Impressionism to Present

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2016:

120 hours

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

For the purposes of considering request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Student Support and Engagement Policy, academic requirements for this subject are articulated in the Subject Overview, Learning Outcomes, Assessment and Generic Skills sections of this entry.

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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 20th century to the present
• undertake basic scholarly work using the bibliographic tools of music to discus the music of the period covered
• develop critical listening/score-reading skills for engagement with the music of the period

• Tutorial assignment 1 (400 words), Week 4 (10%)
• Tutorial assignment 2 (400 words), Week 7 (10%)
• Tutorial assignment 3 (400 words), Week 10 (10%)
• Essay (2000 words), Week 12 (50%)
• Listening test (1 hour), held during the examination period (20%)

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

This subject potentially can be taken as a breadth subject component for the following courses:

• Bachelor of Arts
• Bachelor of Biomedicine
• Bachelor of Commerce
• Bachelor of Environments
• Bachelor of Science

You should visit learn more about breadth subjects and read the breadth requirements for your degree, and should discuss your choice with your student adviser, before deciding on your subjects.

On completion of this subject, students will have developed:

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