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Music - MUSCAS8226

Plan Summary

 
Faculty: Faculty of Arts&Social Science
 
  
 
Contact: aw@unsw.edu.au
 
 
Program: 8226 - Music
 
 
Award(s):
 
 
Master of Music (Specialisation)
 
  

Plan Outline

The MMus coursework program involves the successful completion of six session-length courses. Courses can be taken in any combination of options. There is a wide range of topics to cater to most musical vocations. Also, these options can be tailored to meet the special needs of musicians teaching in secondary schools or who are involved in the organisation and direction of musical practice and performance in schools or the community.
The aim of this program is to give students the opportunity to experience a range of music courses which provide the flexibility to pursue either a musicological, music educational, or ethnomusicological direction. The objective is to provide students with a broad range of musical knowledge with emphases on their fields of interest. Such interests may lie in the fields of Australian music, music pedagogy, world music, and in music history. Courses are presented in both practical and theoretical formats.

Plan Structure

Students are required to complete six session-length courses (totalling 48 units of credit) including a core course MUSC5138 Methods and Techniques in Music Education Research, a project in an area of special interest and four options. Not all options will be available in any year. Please consult the Co-ordinator for a list. Special programs within the MMus are available in Music, Music Education, Performance and Composition.

Core Course

Options for 2008

Students may apply to complete a special program or project including topics in any of the following.
Enquiries should be directed to:
Associate Professor Robert Walker
School of English, Media and Performing Arts
Email: aw@unsw.edu.au
  • An Ethnomusicological Exploration of Australian Traditional and Popular Music
  • Challenge of Ethnomusicology
  • Traditional Australian Aboriginal and Contemporary Australian Music
  • Renaissance Society in Its Music
  • Sound Recordings as a Chronicle of Performance Style
  • Analytic Techniques
  • Tonal Expansion and Atonality in Music 1900-1920
  • Musical Beliefs
  • Curriculum in Music Education
  • Australian Music in the Twentieth Century
  • Bach and the Baroque
  • Transcription, Notation and Analysis of Non-Western Music
  • Music, Musicology and the Imperial Encounter
  • Psychology of Music Teaching and Learning
  • Research in Performance Studies
  • What's "World" about World Music
  • Mozart the Dramatist


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