Undergraduate - Area of study Music

Note: Prerequisites or prohibitions may apply for individual units - consult the unit entry for details.

Bachelor of Music

Students completing a major in a Bachelor of Music or related double degree, refer to the Bachelor of MusicBachelor of Music (http://monash.edu.au/pubs/2015handbooks/courses/0821.html) course entry in this Handbook for information on required units.

Bachelor of Arts*

The details below are for students completing a minor or major in a Bachelor of Arts or related double degree.

* This also includes the Bachelor of Arts Scholars Program and Bachelor of Letters.

Minor in music

Students completing a minorminor (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2015handbooks/undergrad/arts-07.html) in music must complete four units (24 points), including:

(a.) at least one first-year gatewaygateway (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2015handbooks/undergrad/arts-08.html) units (6 points), chosen from:

• ATS1345 Music and history
• ATS1346 Music and culture
• ATS1347 Music ensemble 1*
• ATS1348 Music ensemble 2*

(b.) one first-year level music unit chosen from the list of electives below (6 points)

(c.) additional elective units from the list below (12 points)

Note: Students can take the second-year cornerstone units from the major as electives.

* Students enrolled in this unit will need to pass an audition at the beginning of semester.

Major in music

Students completing a majormajor (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2015handbooks/undergrad/arts-07.html) in music must complete eight units (48 points), including:

(a.) at least one first-year gatewaygateway (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2015handbooks/undergrad/arts-08.html) unit (6 points), chosen from:

• ATS1345 Music and history
• ATS1346 Music and culture
• ATS1347 Music ensemble 1*
• ATS1348 Music ensemble 2*

* Students enrolled in this unit will need to pass an audition at the beginning of semester.

(b.) at least one second-year cornerstonecornerstone (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2015handbooks/undergrad/arts-08.html) unit (6 points), chosen from:

• ATS2333 Jazz history 1: Readings in history and biography
• ATS2799 Audio culture: From Cage to Gaga
• ATS2900 Music aesthetics and criticism

(c.) at least one third-year capstonecapstone (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2015handbooks/undergrad/arts-08.html) unit (6 points), chosen from:

• ATS3094 The music business: How to be successful in the music industry
• ATS3819 Applied music 1: Orchestration
• ATS3820 Applied music 2: Conducting
• ATS3824 Popular music and society

(d.) additional elective units from the list below (30 points)

Note: Students can take additional cornerstone and capstone units as electives.

Elective units

• ATS1342 Music and popular culture: Asia
• ATS1343 Popular music: From spirituals to YouTube
• ATS1347 Music ensemble 1*
• ATS1348 Music ensemble 2*
• ATS1899 Music theory and ear training 1
• ATS1900 Music theory and ear training 2
• ATS2060 The art of teaching music performance (Classical)
• ATS2085 The art of teaching music performance (Improvisation)
• ATS2139 Song writing: How to write a pop tune
• ATS2331/ATS3331 Music - Overseas study program 1
• ATS2332/ATS3332 Music - Overseas study program 2
• ATS2687 The ethnomusicology of improvisation
• ATS2800 Music ensemble 3
• ATS2801 Music ensemble 4
• ATS2804 From the erotic to the exotic: Music in the nineteenth century
• ATS2805 Music, identity and place
• ATS2807 Composition techniques: Structure, pitch and space
• ATS2901 Music theory and ear training 3
• ATS2902 Music theory and ear training 4
• ATS3926 Gongs, Punks and Shadow Plays
• ATS3021 Chamber music 1
• ATS3022 Chamber music 2
• ATS3061 Music in Australian society
• ATS3818 Drumming traditions of West Africa
• ATS3821 From critical theory to creating new musical work
• ATS3822 Jazz history 2: Readings in improvisation and cross cultural musical relationships
• ATS3823 Improvising musical traditions of South Asia
• ATS3825 Western art music in the 20th and 21st century
• ATS3828 Music composition techniques: Film and orchestration
• ATS3829 East Asia and its music: Silk road histories and popular contexts
• ATS3899 Jazz composition/arranging 1
• ATS3900 Jazz composition/arranging 2

A minimum of three units (18 points) must be completed at third - year level.

* Students enrolled in this unit will need to pass an audition at the beginning of semester.