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MUSC419 Advanced Studies in Musicology A

20 cp
Prerequisites Entry into the Bachelor of Music (Honours) or Graduate Diploma in Music (Composition or Performance) courses

A study of up to two selected topics chosen from the following discipline areas in historical and systematic musicology: aesthetics of music, music criticism and music analysis. Topics to be investigated will be negotiated according to staff availability and student demand, and will be chosen from the following broad areas: (i) a study of selected writings of the philosophy of music from antiquity to the present day, (ii) a study of selected theoretical and historical writings on music criticism and critical writings on music, including journalistic criticism, (iii) a study of selected approaches to analysis applied to a variety of musical styles, using analytical techniques such as structural, functional, formal, thematic, stylistic, semiotic, paradigmatic approaches, and set theory.

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