MU1035: KEY MOMENTS 1 (2021-2022)

Last modified: 31 May 2022 13:05

Course Overview

This course covers five key moments from Western music history, giving students both a clear and broad grasp of the shape of musical, cultural and intellectual history along with much more detailed studies of individual musical works.

The coverage will not be encyclopaedic and will instead seek to help students develop a sense of a musical period through more engaged explorations of a small number of key musical works.

Course Details

Study Type	Undergraduate	Level	1
Term	First Term	Credit Points	15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus	Aberdeen	Sustained Study	No
Co-ordinators	Dr Jonathan Hicks

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

Any Undergraduate Programme (Studied)
Either Programme Level 1 or Programme Level 2
Music (MU) (Studied)

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

MU1053 Survey of Western Art Music:900 to Present Day (Studied)

Are there a limited number of places available?

Course Description

Course Aims
To combine breadth and depth in introducing students to five key moments in the development of Western music.

To introduce students to appropriate but challenging scholarly reading and writing, including referencing sources and generating bibliographies.

Main Learning Outcomes

Students will develop:

a deeper knowledge and understanding of key musical periods, composers and works
basic music-analytical skills in approaching a range of works from different historical periods. Analytical skills at this stage would not be formal.
more critical and evaluative responses to musical works, recognising alternative scholarly perspectives on given musical periods, composers and works.
more finely nuanced academic writing skills.
the capacity to research musicological topics alone and with others and to present their findings in written and oral forms.

Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

More Information about Week Numbers

Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

Alternative Assessment

2,000-word essay (60%)

1,000-word essay (40%)

Alternative Resit Assessment

Resubmission of the failed assignments; online exam (100%)

Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge Level	Thinking Skill	Outcome
Factual	Remember	ILO’s for this course are available in the course guide.