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Music

Unit of study table (Table S)

This page was first published on 14 November 2024 and was last amended on 10 December 2024.
View details of the changes below.

Major

A major in Music requires 48 credit points from this table, including:
(i) 6 credit points of 1000-level units from Analysis, History and Culture Studies units
(ii) 6 credit points of 1000-level units from Music Skills: Music Theory and Aural Skills units
(iii) 12 credit points of 2000-level selective units
(iv) 6 credit points of 3000-level core units
(iv) 12 credit points of 3000-level selective units
(v) 6 credit points of 3000-level Interdisciplinary Project units

Minor

A minor in Music requires 36 credit points from this table including:
(i) 6 credit points of 1000-level units from Analysis, History and Culture Studies units
(ii) 6 credit points of 1000-level units from Music Skills: Music Theory and Aural Skills units
(iii) 12 credit points from 2000-level selective units
(iv) 12 credit points of 3000-level selective units

 

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

1000 level units of study

Analysis, History and Culture Studies units of study
MCGY1030
This Is Music
6 This is a Foundation unit in Analysis, History and Culture studies.
MCGY1031
Australian Musical Worlds
6  
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
MUSC1507
Sounds, Screens, Speakers: Music and Media
6  
Music Skills: Music Theory and Aural Skills units of study
MUSC1501
Extended Fundamentals of Music
6 A HSC Music 2
MUSC1503
Fundamentals of Music 1
6  
MUSC1504
Fundamentals of Music 2
6  

2000 level selective units of study

MCGY2601
Perception of Music Performance
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
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.
MUSC2612
Music Performance
6 Audition Requirements: 2 contrasting pieces (or excerpts) totalling 5 minutes and a brief interview. Must have 18 credit points of 1000-level units from any discipline or faculty.
MUSC2614
Composition Workshop
6 A The ability to play a musical instrument and/or make music with digital devices.
P 18 credit points of 1000-level units
MUSC2638
Jazz Riots and Revolutions

6  
MUSC2644
Introduction to the Philosophy of Music
6  
MUSC2645
Psychology of Music
6  
MUSC2648
Words and Music : Song Across Cultures
6  
MUSC2653
Introduction to Digital Music Techniques
6 An ability to read music at a basic level and an understanding of fundamental musical terminology is an advantage in this unit of study.
MUSC2654
Popular Music
6  
MUSC2663
Survey of Film Music
6  
MUSC2666
Global Sound: Drum and Bass, Rhythm and Soul
6  
MUSC2672
Australian Popular Music
6  
MUSC2675
History of the Musical
6  
MUSC2696
Guitar Worlds: Playing Styles and Techniques
6  
MUSC2693
Fundamentals of Music 3
6 P MUSC1504
N MUSC1501
MUSC2695
Popular Music Theory
6 P MUSC1503 or MUSC1504 or MUSC1501 or MUSC2693 or MCGY1008 or JAZZ1621 or JAZZ1019

3000 level units of study

Core
MUSC3699
Understanding Music: Modes of Hearing
6
Selective
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
MCGY3639
Modernism in Austria and Germany 1889-1914

6 P MCGY2612
MUSC3603
Advanced Digital Music Techniques
6 P MUSC2653 or CMPN1013 or MUED1002
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  
MUSC3630
Popular Music and the Moving Image
6  
MUSC3631
Music in Public: Performance and Power
6  
MUSC3639
Music Journalism
6  
MUSC3640
Rhythms and Sounds of Latin America

6 Musical knowledge may be helpful but not necessary
MUSC3641
Music, Environment and Climate Change

6  
MUSC3699
Understanding Music: Modes of Hearing
6

Interdisciplinary Project units of study

PERF3640
Industry and Community Projects
6 A upper-level disciplinary knowledge
P 72 credit points

Post-publication amendments

Date
Original publication
Post-publication amendment
10/12/2024 No Assumed Knowledge (A) for MUSC2614 Assumed Knowledge (A) for MUSC2614 added:
"The ability to play a musical instrument and/or make music with digital devices."