'NEW DIRECTIONS': EVOLUTION AND REVOLUTION IN MUSIC

Course Code

MU 3095

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

Dr D J Smith

Pre-requisites

Entry to Honours Music - BMus Hons or MA with Music (Minor Honours).

Overview

This course will link two highly innovative periods of music history, the early Baroque and the early twentieth century. It will seek to establish the extent to which accepted traditions and compositional techniques were challenged. Parallels will be drawn between musical developments in the two eras. Aspects of contemporary culture, as well as contextual and comparative analysis will be included.

Structure

1 one-hour lecture and 2 one-hour tutorials (per week).

Assessment

1st Attempt: Examination (30%); composition (30%); essay (40%).

Resit: Examination (100%).