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Analytical, Historical and Cultural Studies

Unit of study table

This page was first published on 14 November 2024 and was last amended on 21 November 2024.
View details of the changes below.
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)
JAZZ1022
Jazz History 2
3

P JAZZ1021

JAZZ2018
Jazz History 3
3 P JAZZ1022
MCGY0000
Australian Indigenous Music
0  
MCGY1030
This Is Music
6  
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
MCGY2613
Music in Modern Times
6 A Ability to read musical notation
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
JAZZ3631
Music Industry 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
MCGY3061
Advanced Harmony
6 P MCGY2011
MCGY3602
Understanding East Asian Music
6  
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  
MUSC3610
Musical Traditions and Globalization
6  
MUSC3629
Music and Everyday Life
6  
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  
MCGY4110
Themes in Australian Music History
6  
MUSC2691
Music and Politics
6  
MUSC2697
Music and Gender
6  
MUSC2682
Musical Instruments in Society and Culture
6  
MCGY5605
Methods of Music Analysis
6 A Traditional chordal nomenclature (e.g. roman numeral and figured bass) and standard methods of analysing Western Art Music will be assumed
MUSC1604
Music, Health and Wellbeing
6  
MUSC2622
Music in the Sixties
6 P 18 credit points of MUSC or MCGY units of study
N MUSC2106
MUSC2698
Chinese Music History to 1912
6  
MUSC3639
Music Journalism
6  

Post-publication amendments

Date
Original publication
Post-publication amendment
21/11/2024 No Assumed knowledge (A) for MCGY5605 Assumed knowledge (A) for MCGY5605 added:
"Traditional chordal nomenclature (e.g. roman numeral and figured bass) and standard methods of analysing Western Art Music will be assumed"