MU3411:04
Western Art Music
Townsville
HECS Band 1
26 hours lectures, 13 hours tutorials. Semester 1.
Available to BMus students or other students who pass the University’s music rudiments test.
Staff: Dr S Campbell, Mr R Daniel, Mr M Faragher, Mr D Sudmalis.
Developments in musical styles, forms and media in western art music will be studied through observation and analysis of selected composers. The subject will address a range of musical styles.
Learning Objectives:
- acquire a familiarity with major musical repertoire, stylistic changes and associated terminology relevant to western art music;
- acquire knowledge of the life, times and music of composers;
- discuss, analyse and compare relationships between music and the other art forms selected during this period;
- aurally recognise, describe, analyse and compare selected pieces of music by a representative selection of composers;
- relate changes in musical style to underlying social and intellectual theories, philosophies and aesthetics of the period;
- develop fundamental strategies in musical and historical judgement.
Assessment by end-of-semester examination (30%); essay (2500 words) (40%); seminar (30%).