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Bachelor of Music

Musicology Major

Musicologists are interested in how music is made, why people listen to music and how music is heard in particular ways. This major explores the history of music, how music is constructed, and the ways it is understood and used by people around the world. Core units of study are also taken in music skills, analysis, history and culture studies.

Area of Study

Credit Points

To qualify for the award of pass degree, the following minimum levels of achievement must be reached

Musicology

48

12 cps x 1000-level Musicology units, including MCGY1019 Musicology Workshop 1 and MCGY1020 Musicology Workshop 2;

3 x 2000-level and 3 x 3000-level Musicology units including 6cps in Historical Studies, 6cps in Ethnographic Studies and 6cps in Analytical Studies

Music Skills

24

24 cps in Music Theory and Aural Skills

Analysis, History and Culture Studies

24

MCGY1030 This is Music;

18 cps in AHCS Foundation Units, or

12 cps in AHCS Foundation Units plus MUSC2638 Jazz Riots and Revolutions

Year 4 Project

36

PROJXXXX Project 1A -2A;

12 cps in project related electives

Electives

60

Including 12 cps in performance units

 

Indicative enrolment pathway

Semester 1

 

Semester 2

 

Semester 3

 

Semester 4

 

Music Skills

6

Music Skills

6

Music Skills

6

Music Skills

6

MCGY1030 This is Music

6

MCGY1031 Musical Worlds of Today OR MUSC1506 Music in Western Culture

6

MUSC2638 Jazz Riots and Revolution or AHCS Foundation unit

6

Foundation AHCS

 

6

MCGY1019 Musicology Workshop 1

3

MCGY1020 Musicology Workshop 2

3

Musicology elective

6

Musicology elective

6

Performance

3

Performance

3

Performance

3

Performance

3

Free choice

6

Free choice

6

Free choice

3

Free choice

3

 

24

 

24

 

24

 

24

 

Semester 5

 

Semester 6

 

Semester 7

 

Semester 8

 

Foundation AHCS

6

Analytical Studies UoS

6

Project 1A

12

Project 2A

12

Historical Studies UoS

6

Ethnographic Studies UoS

6

Project related elective

6

Project related elective

6

Musicology elective

6

Free Choice

12

Free Choice

6

Free Choice

6

Free Choice

6

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

24

 

24

 

24

 

24

Musicology Electives

Foundation Units

Cps

MCGY1030 This is Music

6

MCGY1031 Musical Worlds of Today

6

MCGY2611 Music from the Middle Ages to Baroque

6

MCGY2612 Music in the Classical and Romantic Eras

6

MCGY2613 Music in Modern Times

6

MUSC1506 Music in Western Culture

6

JAZZ1021; 1022; 2018; 2019 Jazz History 1-4

3

Historical Studies

 

MCGY3631 African-American Music Inquiry

6

MCGY3636 Classicism and Transformation

6

MCGY3604 J.S. Bach and his World

6

MCGY3639 Modernism in Austria and Germany 1889-1914

6

MUSC3609 Musicology

6

MCGY3629 Romanticism and the Fantastic

6

Ethnographical Studies

 

MUSC3629 Music in Everyday Life

6

MUSC3610 Musical Traditions and Globalization

6

MCGY3602 Understanding East Asian Music

6

MUSC3640 Rhythms & Sounds of Latin America

6

MUSC2637 Aboriginal Song and Country

6

Analytical Studies

 

MCGY2600 Advanced Harmony

6

MCGY3601 Analysis of Nineteenth-Century Music

6

JAZZ3618 Jazz Musicology and Analysis

6

MCGY3638 Harmony as Counterpoint

6

CMPN4666 Advanced Analysis

6

Musicology electives

 

MCGY1031 Musical Worlds of Today

6

MUSC1507 Sounds, Screens, Speakers

6

MUSC2638 Jazz Riots and Revolutions

6

MUSC2645 Psychology of Music

6

MUSC2663 Survey of Film Music

6

MUSC2672 Australian Popular Music

6

MCGY2601 Perception of Music Performance

6

MCGY2611 Music from the Middle Ages to Baroque

6

MCGY2612 Music in the Classical and Romantic Eras

6

MCGY2613 Music in Modern Times

6

MUSC2662 Music in the Sixties

6

MUSC2667 Shakespeare as Opera

6

MCGY2615 The Ultimate Art: 400 Years of Opera

6

MCGY3603 Baroque Music History and Performance

6

MUSC3639 Music Journalism

6

MCGY3617 Music Through Literature

6

MCGY3630 New Germans: Wagner & Liszt 1848-76

6

MCGY3627 Paleography of Music

6

MUSC3624 Music and Sound in 21st Century Film

6

MUSC3631 Music in Public: Performance and Power

6

MUSC3630 Popular Music and the Moving Image

6

MCGY4601 Research Methods

6