Offered By	ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
Areas of Interest	Music

Description

This major is only available to students undertaking the Bachelor of Music degree program.

The Music Inquiry major gives students the opportunity to develop a deep and sophisticated understanding of the cultural, historical, theoretical, and analytical situation of music across a variety of cultures and historical periods.  Students complete two compulsory first-year 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 academic music courses are available to students for them to complete the required 36 units of later-year music study. The courses available  allow sufficient specialization for students to focus on a particular area - for instance musicological research, ethnomusicology, theory and analysis, music criticism – and gain a robust preparation for Honours and further research in that area. 

Learning outcomes

Students completing the Music Inquiry major will:

• demonstrate high-level skills and knowledge of the languages, forms, materials, and techniques of a wide 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 recent research;
• interpret, communicate and present ideas, problems and arguments to do with music and the arts in modes suited to a wide range of audiences, informed by sophisticated inquiry and scholarship;
• recognise and reflect on complex social, cultural and ethical issues, and apply local and international perspectives to practice in music.

Requirements

This major requires the completion of 48 units from the following list of courses which must include:

12 units from the completion of the following 1000-level courses:

MUSM1303 - Jazz Harmony, Arranging and Composition 1 (6 units)

MUSM1304 - Jazz Harmony, Arranging and Composition 2 (6 units)

MUSM1306 - Turning Points in Music History (6 units)

MUSM1307 - What Music Means (6 units)

 

36 units from the completion of courses from the following list:

FILM2008 - Music and Film (6 units)

MUSM2205 - Australian Music (6 units)

MUSM2239 - Music Cultures of the World (6 units)

MUSM2301 - Jazz History 1: Slavery to Big Band (6 units)

MUSM2308 - Jazz History 2: Beebop to Avant-garde (6 units)

MUSM2309 - Music and Politics (6 units)

MUSM2311 - Music and Drama (6 units)

MUSM2312 - Popular Music (6 units)

MUSM2314 - Advanced Jazz Harmony and Analysis (6 units)

MUSM2315 - Indigenous Australian Music and Media  (6 units)

MUSM2316 - Theory and Analysis (Intermediate) (6 units)

MUSM2320 - Theory and Analysis (Advanced) (6 units)

MUSM2323 - Advanced Jazz Arranging and Composition (6 units)

MUSM2326 - Classicism Vs Romanticism (6 units)

MUSM3312 - Music Research Project (6 units – see below)

 

MUSM3312 - Music Research Project may be taken more than once. 

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