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Analytical, Historical and Cultural Studies

Unit of study table

This page was first published on 15 November 2023 and was last amended on 10 January 2024.
View details of the changes below.
AHCS requirements apply to students undertaking the following degrees. Specific requirements are listed in the relevant enrolment pattern.
(a) BMusic
(b) BMusic (Composition)
(c) BMusic (Music Education)
(d) BMusic (Performance)
(e) BMusic/BAdvanced Studies (Composition)
(f) BMusic/BAdvanced Studies (Performance)
(g) Diploma of Music

 

Unit of study Credit points A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites
C: Corequisites N: Prohibition

Foundation units

JAZZ1021
Jazz History 1
3 A Students enrolling in this unit are expected to have strong overall music skills including notation, reading, aural skills, music research and analysis and jazz performance (excluding non-jazz students)
Non-Jazz degree students will be considered for a place in the class based on enrolment numbers prior to the commencement of the semester.
JAZZ1022
Jazz History 2
3 P JAZZ1021
Non-Jazz degree students will be considered for a place in the class based on enrolment numbers prior to the commencement of the semester.
JAZZ2018
Jazz History 3
3 P JAZZ1022
Non-Jazz degree students will be considered for a place in the class based on enrolment numbers prior to the commencement of the semester.
MCGY0000
Australian Indigenous Music
0  
MCGY1030
This Is Music
6 This is a Foundation unit in Analysis, History and Culture studies.
MCGY1031
Australian Musical Worlds
6  
MCGY2611
Music from the Middle Ages to Baroque
6 A Ability to read musical notation
MCGY2612
Music in the Classical and Romantic Eras
6 A The ability to read musical notation and basic knowledge of music theory
This is a Foundation unit in Analysis, History and Culture studies.
MCGY2613
Music in Modern Times
6 A Ability to read musical notation
This is a Foundation unit in Analysis, history and culture studies.
MUSC1506
Classical Music: A Cultural History
6 A The ability to follow a musical score while listening to the music and knowledge of elementary music theory
MUSC2638
Jazz Riots and Revolutions

6  

Electives

CMPN4666
Advanced Analysis
6  
CMPN1612
New Music, New Thinking
6  
EMUS2500
Historically Informed Style Workshop

6  
JAZZ3618
Jazz Musicology and Analysis
6 P JAZZ2017 or JAZZ2624
This is a Foundation unit in Analysis, History and Culture studies.
JAZZ3631
Music Business Skills
6  
MCGY1019
Musicology Workshop 1
3  
MCGY1020
Musicology Workshop 2
3 P MCGY1019
MCGY2601
Perception of Music Performance
6  
MCGY2615
The Ultimate Art: 400 Years of Opera

6 P MCGY2611 or MCGY2612 or MCGY2613 or MUSC1506
MCGY2621
Exploring Ethnomusicology
6 P MCGY1030
This is a compulsory unit for the minor in ethnomusicology. If prerequisite not met, you may apply for special permission.
MCGY3061
Advanced Harmony
6 P MCGY2011
MCGY3602
Understanding East Asian Music
6  
MCGY3604
J.S. Bach and His World
6 A Broad knowledge of Baroque music equivalent to MCGY2611 or MUSC1506
MCGY3629
Romanticism and the Fantastic

6 A It is expected that students will have some knowledge of harmonic and formal practices up to 1850
MCGY3630
New Germans: Wagner and Liszt 1848-76
6 A It is expected that students will have some knowledge of harmonic and formal practices up to 1850
P MCGY2612
MCGY3636
Mozart's World: Music in the Age of Reason

6 A It is recommended that students have completed MCGY1506 or MCGY2612, or have a sound knowledge of late 18th-century repertoire
MCGY3638
Harmony as Counterpoint
6  
MCGY3639
Modernism in Austria and Germany 1889-1914

6 P MCGY2612
MUSC1507
Sounds, Screens, Speakers: Music and Media
6  
MUSC2616
Noise/Sound/Music: Engaging Sonic Worlds

6  
MUSC2644
Introduction to the Philosophy of Music
6  
MUSC2645
Psychology of Music
6  
MUSC2648
Words and Music : Song Across Cultures
6  
MUSC2654
Popular Music
6  
MUSC2663
Survey of Film Music
6  
MUSC2664
Popular Music and the Moving Image

6  
MUSC2666
Global Sound: Drum and Bass, Rhythm and Soul
6  
MUSC2672
Australian Popular Music
6  
MUSC2675
History of the Musical
6  
MUSC3609
Musicology
6 This unit is a requirement for Honours in the Arts Music unit.
MUSC3610
Musical Traditions and Globalization

6  
MUSC3629
Music and Everyday Life
6 This unit is a requirement for Honours in the BA.
MUSC3631
Music in Public: Performance and Power
6  
MUSC3641
Music, Environment and Climate Change

6  
MUSC3675
Writing Music Theatre: Book and Lyrics
6 A This course is open to any students in the 2nd year or above of their degree
MUSC3699
Understanding Music: Modes of Hearing
6  
MUSC4214
Musicology Workshop Advanced
6  
VSAO1300
Classical Singer's Repertoire Book
6  

Post-publication amendments

Date
Original publication
Post-publication amendment
10/01/2024 MUSC3675 missing from:
Electives
MUSC3675 added to:
Electives