Music Minor
Music Minor - Overview
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ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences |
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The Music minor gives students the opportunity to pursue studies in music. The key objective of the minor is to introduce students to university-level understanding of the cultural, historical, theoretical, and analytical situation of music across a variety of cultures and historical periods. Students complete two 1000-level courses which introduce the notion of inquiry-based musical scholarship, both of the traditional academic kind, and also purely musical modes of inquiry such as interpretation, improvisation, transcription and analysis. Thereafter, a wide range of music courses are available for the students to complete the 24 units required for the minor.
Learning Outcomes
Students completing the Music minor will:
- demonstrate skills and knowledge of the languages, forms, materials, and techniques of a range of musics;
- develop and evaluate musical, cultural, and artistic ideas, concepts and processes by thinking creatively, critically and reflectively, and through engaging with genuine scholarship and research;
- have the opportunity to apply relevant skills and knowledge to produce and realise musical works, performances, improvisations and other forms of creative expression;
- interpret, communicate and present ideas, problems and arguments to do with music and the arts, informed by inquiry and scholarship;
- recognise and reflect on social, cultural and ethical issues which inform music.
Requirements
This minor requires the completion of 24 units, which must include:
12 units from the completion of 1000-level courses from the following list:
MUSM1201 - Central Concepts of Music (6 units)
MUSM1202 - Turning Points in Music History (6 units)
MUSM1230 - Jazz Harmony, Arranging and Composition 1 (6 units)
MUSM1231 - Jazz Harmony, Arranging and Composition 2 (6 units)
MUSM1101 - The Complete Musician 1 (6 units)
MUSM1102 - The Complete Musician 2 (6 units)
MUSM1110 - Foundation Musical Skills (6 units)
12 units from the completion of courses from the following list:
MUSM2XXX - Music and Politics (6 units)
MUSM2XXX - Popular Music (6 units)
MUSM2XXX - Romantic versus Classical (6 units)
MUSM2XXX - Music and Drama (6 units)
MUSM2XXX - Theory and Analysis (Intermediate) (6 units)
MUSM2XXX - Theory and Analysis (Advanced) (6 units)
MUSM2XXX - Jazz History 1: Slavery to Big Band (6 units)
MUSM2XXX - Jazz History 2: Beebop to Avant-garde
MUSM2205 - Australian Music (6 units)
MUSM2XXX - Advanced Jazz Arranging and Composition
MUSM2XXX - Advanced Jazz Harmony and Analysis
FILM2008 - Music and Film (6 units)
MUSM2239 - Music Cultures of the World (6 units)
MUSM2XXX - Indigenous Australian Music and Media (6 units)
MUSM3XXX - Music Research Project (6 units – see below)
MUSM2XXX - Performance 1 (6 units)
MUSM2XXX - Performance 2 (6 units)
MUSM2XXX - Performance 3 (6 units)
MUSM2XXX - Performance 4 (6 units)
MUSM3XXX - Composition 1 (6 units)
MUSM3XXX - Composition 2 (6 units)
MUSM3XXX - Composition 3 (6 units)
MUSM3XXX - Composition 4 (6 units)
MUSM3XXX - Composition 5 (6 units)
MUSM3XXX - Composition 6 (6 units)
MUSM2XXX - Aural 2 (6 units)
MUSM2XXX - Aural 3 (6 units)
MUSM2XXX - Jazz Aural and Improvisation 2 (6 units)
MUSM2XXX - Jazz Aural and Improvisation 3 (6 units)
MUSM3251 - Music Education Program Professional Practice (6 units)
MUSM3252 - Instrumental Music Education (6 units)
MUSM2XXX - Recording Techniques 1 (6 units)
MUSM2XXX - Recording Techniques 2 (6 units)
MUSM2XXX - Music Professional Practice Project (6 units)
MUSM2XXX - Music Professional Practice Project (6 units) may be taken more than once
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