Critical Musicology and Semiotics (P00304)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : ACE-P-MMIM

This course will introduce students to methodologies and theories that have developed in he musicological field in the last twenty years. It will include influences from New Criticism, Semiotics and their relaied new methods of music analysis. After a general overview of Semiotics in various fields, students will be introduced to the problematics of the new terminology, to new syntactic and semantic methods of musical interpretation, and they will inspect these in view of their cultural and historical context.

Entry Requirements

? Costs : n/a

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Music, (School of Arts, Culture and Environment, Schedule A)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 2 (Blocks 3-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 11 weeks

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

Students will have become familiar with range of methodologies and theories in the New Musicology and in Semiotics. They will also be familiar with terminolgoy applied in contemporary musicological discourse. This will inform their own research and prepare them for the writing of their dissertation.