Subject Area: Music

This course offers a gateway into the Music Inquiry Stream by using a range of approaches, methods and theories to examine music: biographical study, manuscript study (paleography, editions, publication history and considerations, marked scores), primary source study, analysis, organology and iconography, criticism, aesthetics, hermeneutics, reception history, performance studies, transcription, music psychology and ethnography. The course will clearly outline the potential of these theories and approaches, introduce students to key ideas and texts of advanced methodology, and allow students to assess the applicability to and limitations of each approach in further musical studies. This course is designed to enable students to master the acquisition and presentation of musicological evidence.