Undergraduate Course: Music 1B: Instruments, Culture and Technology (MUSI08068)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 8 (Year 1 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course provides a survey of the interaction between music, instruments, and technologies from early times until the present day. Students will learn how these related areas of study shape how music is made, how it is perceived, and the role it has played in culture over history. |
| Course description |
This course explores the concept of music technology from acoustic, historical, material and cultural perspectives. It addresses a range of questions: what is a technology when it comes to music. What, for that matter, is a musical instrument? How do the meanings of music technologies and instruments change in different historical and cultural contexts? What material and social relations do music technologies bring into play? All of these considerations have an impact on what music is, how it is made, and how it is experienced. This course therefore provides a survey of the interaction between music, instruments, and technologies from early times until the present day.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2015/16, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 22,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 6,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 1,
Summative Assessment Hours 2,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
165 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
60 %,
Coursework
40 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Coursework 40%
Exam 60%
Relationship between Assessment and Learning Outcomes:
Each learning outcome will be assessed in both the essay and the exam. |
| Feedback |
1) All students will submit a poster presentation and a 500-word commentary mid-way through the semester. Written feedback on this assignment will be provided within 15 working days of the hand-in date.
2) Students will receive oral feedback during fortnightly tutorials.
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| Exam Information |
| Exam Diet |
Paper Name |
Hours & Minutes |
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| Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May) | Music 1B: Instruments, Culture and Technology | 2:00 | |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate knowledge of the defining features of musical instruments and technologies.
- Critically evaluate ideas, concepts, and debates in the cultural study of music and technologies.
- Be able to use a range of approaches to analyze the relationship between music instruments, culture and technology in a piece of written work.
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Reading List
Arnold Pacey. Meaning in Technology. The MIT Press. 1999.
Martin Clayton, Trevor Herbert & Richard Middleton, Eds. (2003). The Cultural Study of Music: A Critical Introduction. London & New York: Routledge
Roederer, Juan. The Physics and Psychophysics of Music: An Introduction. 4th ed. New York: Springer, 2008.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
1) Use a wide range of specialist terms and concepts to articulate analytical responses to music.
2) Carry out systematic and extended research into a musical topic by planning and writing a piece of extended work that synthesizes information and views from a variety of sources.
3) Identify and articulate the impact of music technology on creative, cultural, and art practices and the music industry.
4) Identify how technological developments of musical instruments bear relation to the kinds of music performed with them
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| Keywords | music,instruments,technology,society,acoustics |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Thomas Wagner
Tel: (0131 6)50 2423
Email: twagner@exseed.ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Noureen Ehsan
Tel: (0131 6)50 9179
Email: Noureen.Ehsan@ed.ac.uk |
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