| CODE | MSP3117 | |||||||||
| TITLE | Twentieth-century Music: Styles, Trends, and Techniques | |||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 03 - Years 2, 3, 4 in Modular Undergraduate Course | |||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 6 | |||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 6 | |||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Music Studies | |||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit gives an overview of the main twentieth-century composers, their styles and techniques. Listening with score in hand constitutes a bulk of the content of the lectures. Students will be required to study some of the scores and submit their own work, influenced by what they study. Study-unit Aims: This study-unit aims to: (a) develop in students a critical and self-critical approach towards composition; (b) provide students with the opportunity to acquire a technical baggage appropriate for composition at this level of studies; (c) assist students become more aware of contemporary repertoire; (d) help students plan, construct and evaluate pieces that have a meaningful structure; (e) train students write analytical essays about composition in music at an academic level. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: a) evaluate developments in twentieth-century and contemporary composition, in such a way as to be able to make well-informed appraisals of specific schools, composers and works; b) explore various techniques used in the music of the period. 2. Skills By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: a) design and compose small-scale compositions that consolidate his/her technical ability and originality, experimenting by making use of the stylistic features, techniques and procedures explored during the study of the repertoire presented during the course; b) approach and present an analysis of his/her compositions. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Texts - Lester, J. 1989. Analytic Approaches to Twentieth-Century Music (New York: Norton). - Ross, A.. 2007. The Rest is Noise (New York: Harper). Supplementary Readings - Adorno, T.W. 1973. Philosophy of Modern Music (New York: Continuum). - Berry, W. 1987. Structural Functions in Music (New York: Dover). - Griffiths, P. 1986. Encyclopaedia of 20th-Century Music (London: Thames & Hudson). - Griffiths, P. 1995. Modern Music and after (Oxford: Oxford University Press). - Stone, K. 1980. Music Notation in the Twentieth Century (New York: Norton). - Whittall, A. 1999. Musical Composition in the Twentieth Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press). - Whittall, A. 2003. Exploring Twentieth-Century Music, Tradition and Innovation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture, Seminar and Tutorial | |||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Max Erwin |
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