Music Studies - MUSCA23968
Stream Summary
Faculty: ARTSC - Faculty of Arts&Social Science
School: School of the Arts and Media
Contact: sam@unsw.edu.au
Program: 3968 - Computer Science / Arts
Award(s):
Bachelor of Arts (Minor)
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Stream Outline
The minor stream in Music Studies seeks to examine music not only as a human intellectual product, but also as a specific reflection of experience, manifestation of culture and product of society. The disciplinary study of music has as a core the methodologies of Musicology. The minor stream in music enables students to develop their musicianship, musical skills and contextual understanding of music in preparation for professional work in music areas as diverse as broadcasting, recording, arts administration and advocacy, concert planning, music and general arts journalism, and music teaching.
The specific aims of the minor stream in Music Studies are:
- To develop in the student an awareness of the influence of music in the social, cultural, and political domains of human activity
- To nurture in the student an appreciation of the role of music, and its relationship to other disciplines in the Liberal Arts
- To establish a solid grounding in the key concepts and skills that form the basis of musical study and practice
- To recognise the role of historical, cultural, social and political contexts as fundamental to the study of music practice and criticism
- To understand and appreciate a diversity of music forms, values and practices in addition to the Western tradition
- To develop a deep awareness of the ethical dimensions of diverse musical practices
- To develop research skills and methodologies in documenting, analyzing, synthesizing and communicating information about musical practices and musical contexts
- To develop writing and critical skills necessary for the advocacy of music making, music education and music literacy
Stream Structure
- MUSC1603 Materials and Structures of Music 2 (6 UOC)
- MUSC2116 Sound, Society & Self in World Music (6 UOC)
- MUSC1703 Per Lab 1 (BA) (6 UOC)
- MUSC1706 Per Lab 2 (BA) (6 UOC)
- MUSC1703 BA Performance Laboratory 1 (6 UOC) or MUSC1706 BA Performance Laboratory 2 (6 UOC) and/or
- Prescribed Music Electives
- 12 UOC Prescribed Music Electives
- ARTS2006 Music and Dance (6 UOC)
- ARTS2009 Technical Production (6 UOC)
- MUSC2113 Film Music (6 UOC)
- MUSC2118 Music in Bali (6 UOC)
- MUSC2803 Creative Sound Technologies (6 UOC)
- MUSC2804 Investigating Music (6 UOC)
- MUSC3102 Psychology of Music (6 UOC)
- MUSC3104 Contemplating Jazz (6 UOC)
- MUSC3302 Orchestration and Arrangement (6 UOC)