Fundamentals of Western music II
C J De Wilde
6 points * 3 hours per week * Second semester * Clayton * Prerequisite: MUS1010
Guided critical listening to selected works from ca. 1800 to the present. An examination of how the works are composed and performed and how they are organised in an historical framework with respect to form, style and genre. In addition, students are shown how to write works on the basis of certain compositional techniques.
Assessment
Written (1000 words): 20% * Examinations (3 hours): 60% * Listening tests: 20%
Prescribed texts
Kamien R The Norton scores: An anthology for listening vol. 2, 5th edn, Norton, 1990