Asian music: three great traditions
R Flora
8 points * 3 hours per week * First semester * Clayton * Prohibitions: MUS1050
Critical discussion of key theoretical concepts in the literature on ethnomusicology since the 1950s. Application of these concepts in the study of three Asian musical traditions: India, Indonesia and Japan, including theories of music as culture, unity of the arts and religion, culture contact, aesthetics and the classification of musical sounds and objects.
Assessment
Written (2500 words): 40% * Examinations (3 hours): 45% * Assignments: 15%
Prescribed texts
Malm W P Music cultures of the Pacific, the Near East and Asia 2nd edn, Prentice-Hall, 1977
May E (ed.) Music of many cultures U California P, 1980