MU1412 - Contemporary Music

Credit points:	03
Year:	2005
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
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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 Disco.

Learning Outcomes

• 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;
• aurally recognise, describe, analyse and compare selected pieces of music by a representative selection of song-writers and performers;
• develop fundamental strategies in musical and historical judgement;
• discuss, analyse and compare relationships between music and the other art forms selected during this period;
• relate changes in musical style to underlying social and intellectual theories, philosophies and aesthetics of the period.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments;
• The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
• The ability to speak and write logically, clearly and creatively;
• The ability to calculate, produce, interpret and communicate numerical information;
• The ability to access and employ online technologies effectively;
• A coherent and disciplined body of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics in at least one discipline area.

Prerequisites:	Audition
Inadmissible Subject Combinations:	MU1213

Availabilities
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Census Date 31-Aug-2005
Coordinator:	Professor Ryan Daniel
Lecturers:	Professor Ryan Daniel, jc153938.
Contact hours:	26 hours 13 hours
Assessment:	(30%); (30%); (40%).
Special Assessment Requirements:	Students must attend a minimum of 80% of tutorials to pass this subject.

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.