MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS
Arts Undergraduate Handbook 1996
Published by Monash University
Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia
Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
MUS2260
Asian music: three great traditions
R Flora
8 points + 3 hours per week + Second semester + Clayton + Prohibitions:
MUS1050
Synopsis 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
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