Music
Unit of study table (Table S)
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Major | ||
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| 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 |
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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 MUSC1506 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 and CMPN1014) |
| 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 |