Study-Unit Description

Study-Unit Description


CODE LAS1078

 
TITLE A Sonic Landscape in Time: From Baroque to Multimedia

 
UM LEVEL I - Introductory Level

 
MQF LEVEL 5

 
ECTS CREDITS 4

 
DEPARTMENT Centre for the Liberal Arts and Sciences

 
DESCRIPTION The Unit’s intent and purposes are to provide a music appreciation in context. That is, exposing the community to diverse music aesthetics from different eras against a multi-layered contextual reality that is political, religious, social, historical and cultural. Within this Unit, participants will develop self-awareness of ethnocentricity based on a narrow definition of ‘function of culture’ Carigan, 2003), worth music styles, those being the ones we know and do, and provide means of how they can be actively-learnt participants in their communities.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Knowledge & Understanding:

By the end of the unit the student will be able to:

- Identify different music aesthetics
- Be holistically descriptive in their discourse of a particular music genre
- Promote, share and manage the implementation of sequential music repertoire
- Nurture the educational value and social-emotional development

2. Skills:

By the end of the unit the student will be able to:

- Hold a constructive and informed conversation,
- Relate to other disciplines, including but not limited to the Arts, Literature, and Architecture.

Main Text/s and any supplementary readings:

Main Texts:

The Essential Listening to Music (2nd Edition), Craig Wright; Yale University.
The Enjoyment of Music: An introduction to Perceptive Listening (10th Edition), Forney, Kristine; Machlis, Joseph; W.W. Norton.
Take note: An Introduction to Music through Active Listening, Robin Wallace; Oxford University Press.

Current Research Academic Papers:

The Art of Appreciation: Music and Middlebrow Culture in Modern Britain. Katie Guthrie, Publication Date: 2021 Publication Name: University of California Press.
Abstract: From the BBC Proms to Bernstein's Young People's Concerts, initiatives to promote classical music were a pervasive feature of twentieth-century musical life. Their goal was rarely just to reach a larger and more diverse audience; many also sought to teach a particular way of listening designed to help the public "appreciate" music. This book examines for the first time why and how music appreciation had such a defining and long-lasting impact-well beyond its origins as a late-Victorian, liberal project in music education. Putting new archival research into dialogue with social, political and cultural histories, it traces the networks of musicians, composers, critics, philanthropists, policy-makers and music educators who sought to shape the new markets for classical music through the central decades of the twentieth century. Both optimistic and anxious about advances in sound reproduction technologies, they worked across diverse forums and media – from concert halls to universities, from radio to cinema – to share the values and methods of music appreciation with aspirational audiences. Far more than the history of a uniquely influential movement in music education, The Art of Appreciation recounts how listening became entangled in a nexus of modern problems around citizenship, leisure and education. In so doing, it reveals a twentieth-century musical culture shaped less by radical rupture than by gradual change. At its heart was a milieu that encapsulated Britain's experience of modernity: the middlebrow.

If it’s Mozart, it must be good? The influence of textural information and age on musical appreciation. Michael Kaufmann and Timo Fischinger: Doi: 10.1177/0305735618812216 Journal Name: Psychology of Music Publication Date: Dec 19, 2018 Publication Name: in: Psychology of Music.

 
STUDY-UNIT TYPE Lecture

 
METHOD OF ASSESSMENT
Assessment Component/s Sept. Asst Session Weighting
Presentation 30%
Reflective Diary 30%
Oral Examination 40%

 
LECTURER/S

 

 
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