Program for specialisation in musicology/ethnomusicology

Western musicology stream: 52 points total

Coordinator: Carol Williams

Ethnomusicology stream: 52 points total

Coordinator: Reis Flora

Students who choose either of these specialisations or a combination of both can expect to develop their knowledge and understanding of music to prepare themselves as musicologists and/or ethnomusicologists, studying the music history of various genres, research methods, and aspects of systematic musicology such as performance practice, analysis, aesthetics, criticism, music sociology and psychology of music. Students at honours level present a thesis of 15,000 to 18,000 words on an approved research topic in musicology. They may then proceed with masters level coursework in other aspects of musicology.

In the ethnomusicology stream students learn to perform in a range of Asian and other ensembles, make a critical study of the ethnomusicological literature, and make detailed area studies of selected music-cultures of Asia and/or Africa.

First year: 12 points

• MUS1100 Exploring music I* (6 points)
• MUS1110 Exploring music II* (6 points)

• MUS2110 Analytical and compositional techniques I[!] (4 points)
• MUS2120 Analytical and compositional techniques II* (4 points)
• MUS2140 Music of the Romantic ideal (8 points) or
• MUS2480 Performance studies: Indonesian gamelan (8 points)

• MUS3310 Twentieth-century compositional techniques* (8 points)
• MUS3390 Music aesthetics, criticism, sociology and psychology* (8 points)
• MUS3170 Chamber music (8 points) or

Honours year: 48 points

Coordinator: Craig De Wilde

Performance

• MUS4030 Special project: practical study, with extended, fully annotated concert recital and essay* (or other approved project) (24 points) and three of the following eight-point subjects:
• MUS4010 Applied music (8 points)
• MUS4580 Contemporary music (8 points)
• MUS4980 Music pedagogy (8 points)
• Genre study (8 points) ie MUS3170 Chamber music
• Area study (8 points) ie MUS3830 Music of Southeast Asia I: Indonesia
• MUS4490 Performance studies: Indonesian gamelan

• MUS4760 Special project: Folio of compositions plus concert performance of at least one composition with program notes) (24 points) and three of the following eight-point subjects.
• MUS4420 Research methods (8 points)
• MUS4580 Contemporary music (8 points)
• Area study (eg MUS4270 Music and popular culture: Asia and Australia, in 1997) (8 points)
• Genre study (Chamber music in 1997) (8 points)

• MUS4720 Thesis* (24 points) plus three from the following eight-point subjects:
• MUS4180 Chamber music (8 points)
• MUS4420 Research methods* (8 points)
• MUS4640 Fieldwork (8 points)

Ethnomusicology

• MUS4720 Thesis* (24 points) plus three of the following eight-point subjects:
• MUS4420 Research methods* (8 points)
• MUS4640 Fieldwork methods (8 points)
• MUS4980 Music pedagogy (8 points)

  [!] Compulsory subject.

• MUS4830 Music of Southeast Asia I: Indonesia

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