MUSA231-18S2 (C) Semester Two 2018

The Musical Heritage of Western Civilization

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 16 July 2018
End Date: Sunday, 18 November 2018
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 27 July 2018
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 12 October 2018

Description

A chronological and themed history of Western Art Music from late antiquity to the early 20th century.

This course explores topics in European music history from the early modern period to the late–nineteenth century. Students will be introduced to a variety of approaches to the study of musicology, including cultural and social history of music, use of primary sources, and musical analysis.

Topics covered in this course:
Versailles and Paris, 1660–1760
Music at the court of Louis XIV
French elegance, Italian extravagance: a contest of styles
Publishing and public concerts: Paris as a centre of 18th-century cosmopolitanism

London and England, 1700–1760
Music of town, country, and city
Music in the church and in the theatre

Vienna, 1770–1840
Vienna as imperial capital
Haydn and Mozart’s Vienna
Beethoven, Schubert, and the Romantic movement

The War of the Romantics
Two currents in nineteenth-century aesthetics

Paris, 1840–1890
French nationalism, revisited
Debussy and the avant-garde

Learning Outcomes

  • Students who pass this course will:
  • Be able to describe specific developments in Western Art Music, and contextualise them in wider European history and culture.
  • Be able to critically evaluate primary source documents relevant to musicological research.
  • Possess sophisticated skills using library and information resources related to musicology, including library databases, bibliographic tools, scholarly editions, and electronic resources.
  • Be able to demonstrate high-level oral and written communication skills, including language appropriate for digital publishing and scholarly communication.
  • Have a professional attitude to research and to the dissemination and public discussion of music history and musical culture, developed through concert curation and the use of new media.

Prerequisites

MUSA131 or 45 points from the BA Schedule, and some ability to read music notation.

Restrictions

Course Coordinator

Francis Yapp

Tutors

Francis Yapp and Elizabeth Lochhead

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Blog 30% Mon of weeks 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 at midnight
Programme Curation and Programme Notes 15% In September
Essay 2000 words 25% In October
Listening Test 20% In October
Continuous Assessment 10% Attendance at and contribution to tutorial discussion

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Burkholder, J. Peter , Grout, Donald Jay, Palisca, Claude V; A history of western music ; Ninth edition; W. W. Norton & Company, 2014.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $834.00

International fee $3,600.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Humanities .

All MUSA231 Occurrences

  • MUSA231-18S2 (C) Semester Two 2018