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CMPN4666: Advanced Analysis

This unit is designed to equip students with a working knowledge of current music theory and analysis practice, impart analytical skills that can be applied across a broad spectrum of activities and different musical genres and types, and develop an understanding of related concepts such as what analysis actually is, different types of analysis (functional, descriptive, surface, aural/perceptual vs. score based) and an understanding of working at different levels of abstraction.

Code CMPN4666
Academic unit Composition and Music Technology
Credit points 6
Prerequisites:
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None
Corequisites:
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None
Prohibitions:
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None

At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:

  • LO1. investigate the ways a number of significant composers, mainly but not exclusively, from Western art music of the 19th and 20th centuries, have created new modes of musical expression via the development of innovative compositional skills and techniques.
  • LO2. demonstrate an enhanced understanding of the genre of Western art music and the ways in which it continues to be composed today.