Skip to main content
Search the University of Sydney website

Analytical, Historical and Cultural Studies

Unit of study table

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
MUSC3639
Music Journalism
6  
MUSC2684
Pop Musicology
6 P MUSC1503 or MUSC1504 or MUSC1501 or MUSC2693 or MCGY1008 or JAZZ1621 or JAZZ1019
MUSC2677
Amplifying Voices and Stories Through Music
6  
MUSC2665
Chinese Music: From Concepts to Practice
6 A No prior knowledge of Western or Chinese score notation is presumed.