| CODE | MSP1263 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | World Music | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 6 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Music Studies | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit explores the music of a wide range of musical traditions from around the world. It aims to develop an understanding of a wide range of theoretical issues through analysis of a number of representative musical practices from both western and non-western musical traditions. In addition, it will shed light on a number of interrelated issues and concepts that had an impact on the music of these traditions and the way it was transmitted and diffused. Study-unit Aims: The study-unit aims to: (a) help students recognise the importance of studies of musical cultures around the world in today’s professional music training; (b) assist students in understanding music and its related global processes; (c) assist students appraise the various functions music has in constructing, influencing, and maintaining human life. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: (a) value music as a concept that varies according to time, place and people; (b) recognize the varying roles that music plays in the everyday life of different cultures; (c) value the fact that music does not exist in a vacuum but it survives within a world of values and interests that shape it intrinsically. 2. Skills By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: (a) transcribe and analyse orally transmitted music from the above music traditions; (b) synthesise discourse about music with discourse about culture and society; (c) examine ethnographic material, especially that related to music performance. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: - Bakan, Michael B. 2012. World Music: Traditions and Transformations, 2nd edn (New York: McGraw Hill). - Titon, Jeff Todd (ed.). 2016. Worlds of Music: An Introduction to the Music of the World's People, 6th edn, (Boston, MA: Cengage Learning). |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture, Seminar and Tutorial | ||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Philip Ciantar |
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