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MU1412:03

Contemporary Music

Townsville

HECS Band 1

26 hours lectures, 13 hours tutorials. Semester 2.

Available to BMus students only.

Developments in popular musical styles, forms and media since the mid-1950s will be studied through observation and analysis of selected music from a diversity of popular musicians. The subject will address a range of contemporary styles such as Rock, Pop, Rhythm and Blues, Metal, Rap and Techno.

Learning Objectives:

acquire a familiarity with major musical repertoire, stylistic changes and associated terminology relevant to Western popular music since about 1955;

acquire knowledge of the life, times and music of selected song-writers and performers;

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 song-writers and performers;

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 written assignment (40%); class test (20%); minor project (20%); listening diary (20%). Students must attend a minimum of 80% of tutorials to pass this subject.