Musicology develops the student's ability to research and explore scholarly ideas in music, examining music as cultural and aesthetic practice in historical, contemporary and cross-cultural contexts. It introduces the student to the materials, critical, historical, and oral sources, conceptual approaches and disciplines of musical research and scholarship. It deepens the student's understanding of the historical, social and cultural contexts in which music has developed and is practised. The student is challenged to address issues, practices and methods relating to criticism, style and analysis, artistic interpretation, history, bibliography, biography, archival research, cultural theory, field work and cross-cultural knowledge. The student will develop the vocabulary and tools for speaking and writing critically about the rich traditions of music inherited from European and other traditions, and learn to use, synthesise and evaluate primary sources, with an emphasis upon Australian resources. At times this seminar may be taken, in part, at various cultural institutions in Canberra.

Students taking this course can expect that this course will:

1. Enhance their ability to research and explore scholarly ideas in music.
2. Enhance their capacity to examine music as cultural and aesthetic practice.
3. Promote an understanding of music from historical, contemporary, and cross-cultural contexts.
4. Introduce students to the materials, critical, historical, and oral sources of music research.
5. Deepen a student's understanding of the ways in which music develops within historical and socio-cultural contexts.
6. Develop the vocabulary and tools for speaking and writing critically about the rich traditions of music from European and other traditions.
7. Learn to synthesise and evaluate primary sources with an emphasis on Australian sources.

One major project (50%); two minor projects which may include group work and/or class presentations (50%).

Contact time 2 hours per week.

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