Postgraduate Course: Introduction to Musicology (MUSI11051)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Music |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
None |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This course is designed to introduce students to the main approaches and methodologies practiced by contemporary musicologists and some of the issues involved in using them. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | No |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Show a critical understanding of key concepts, theories and methodologies used in both historical and contemporary musicology
2. Address specific issues in musicology through reading, classroom presentations and written assignments
3. Exercise a substantial level of initiative and independent thinking as applied to issues and problems in musicology
4. Be able to engage in debate and communicate concepts in musicology with peers and senior colleagues
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Assessment Information
One 3,000-word essay, worth 40% of total course mark, due in Week 7 of the course.
One 3,000-word essay, worth 60% of total course mark, due at the beginning of Semester 2.
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Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
Not entered |
| Syllabus |
Topics covered in the course will include:
- Introduction to Musicology
- Musicology and Recording
- Constructing and Critiquing the Canon
- Audio/Visual media
- Editing music ¿ why do it?
- Documents and the historian
- Musical Institutions
- Music and Politics
- Music Historiography
- Music and Post-colonialism |
| Transferable skills |
Not entered |
| Reading list |
Indicative bibliography:
D. Kern Holoman and Claude Palisca,
Musicology in the 1980s (New York, 1982)
Carl Dahlhaus, Foundations of Music History
(Cambridge, 1983)
James W. Pruett and Thomas P. Stavens,
Research Guide to Musicology (Chicago,
1985)
Joseph Kerman Musicology (London, 1985)
Katherine Bergeron and Philip Bohlmann,
Disciplining Music: Musicology and its
canons (Chicago, 1992)
Nicholas Cook and Mark Everist, Rethinking
Music (Oxford, 1999)
Nicholas Cook, Music: A Very Short
Introduction (Oxford, 2000)
Alastair Williams, Constructing Musicology
(Aldershot, 2001)
Martin Clayton, Trevor Herbert and Richard
Middleton eds., The Cultural Study of
Music: a Critical Introduction (New York
and London, 2003)
Eric Clarke and Nicholas Cook eds., Empirical
Musicology: Aims, Methods, Prospects
(Oxford, 2004)
David Beard and Kenneth Gloag, Musicology:
the Key Concepts (London/New York,
2005)
Tim Crawford and Lorna Gibson eds.,
Modern Methods for Musicology:
Prospects, Proposals and Realities
(Aldershot, 2009)
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| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Ten two-hour seminars. |
| Keywords | Musicology, historical musicology, canon, musical documents |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Matt Brennan
Tel: (0131 6)50 2903
Email: m.t.brennan@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Lyndsay Hopes
Tel: (0131 6)51 5735
Email: Lyndsay.Hopes@ed.ac.uk |
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