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MU2412:03

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 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%).