Course overview
This course provides an introduction to concepts and approaches to music research as encountered in the co-disciplines of historical musicology and ethnomusicology, and in other disciplines which have addressed music including sociology and psychology. Key ideas and concepts are used to understand selected examples of Western music (in both popular and classical forms) and non-Western music. The scope of research considered in the course includes both studies of traditional forms of music performance and composition, and studies of music in media contexts such as film, television, and games.
Course learning outcomes
- Critically assess music as encountered in a broad range of historical, social, cultural, performative, notational, and mediated contexts
- Understand the relationship between studies of music within the co-disciplines of ethnomusicology and historical musicology, and studies of music in other disciplines, particularly within the Social Sciences
- Develop and demonstrate aural and analytical skills through assessed written and oral assignments and through participation in seminar discussions
- Develop music research skills related to planning essays and confidence in written, oral, and electronic modes of communication