Module WXZ-1300:
Music since 1850
Music since 1850: History and contexts 2023-24
WXZ-1300
2023-24
School Of Arts, Culture And Language
Module - Semester 1
10 credits
Module Organiser:
Stephen Rees
Overview
Indicative lecture topics include: - Wagner and the 'total artwork' - Miniature forms: Grieg and Satie - Viardot and the role of the salon - Brahms: tradition and progressiveness - Music in late 19th-century France: Bizet, Fauré and Debussy - Stravinsky and the Ballets Russes - Music and technology: The Futurists and Varèse - Breaking away from tonality: Schoenberg and Webern - Neoclassicism: Ravel, Falla and Stravinsky - The early years of jazz - Symphonic traditions: Sibelius and Shostakovich - The birth of rock music - Musique concrète and Elektronische Musik - Cage and experimental music - Popular music in the 1960s - Integral serialism: Boulez and Stockhausen - Music from Soviet Russia: Gubaidulina and Schnittke - Progressive rock and beyond - Minimalism and post-minimalism - Pluralism, postmodernism and the culture industry
Indicative set texts for deeper study in seminars include: - Debussy: Préludes, Book 1 - The Beatles: Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Assessment Strategy
-threshold -D– to D+: Work which demonstrates an adequate knowledge of the subject, with limited ability at conceptual and critical thinking, expressed intelligibly.
-C- to C+: Work which demonstrates a competent grasp of the subject, with adequate conceptual and critical thinking, expressed understandably.
-good -B– to B: Work which demonstrates a good grasp of the subject, with strong conceptual and critical thinking, expressed engagingly.
-excellent -A– to A**: Work which demonstrates a thorough grasp of the subject, with evidence of originality in conceptual and critical thinking, expressed convincingly.
Learning Outcomes
- On completion of the module, the student will be able to communicate ideas effectively.
- On completion of the module, the student will be able to demonstrate an engagement with specific academic literature relating to works, styles, genres and musical features in repertoire composed between 1850 and the present day.
- On completion of the module, the student will be able to demonstrate the ability to identify, describe and explain musical and contextual aspects of specific works, styles, genres and musical features in repertoire composed between 1850 and the present day.
Assessment method
Essay
Assessment type
Summative
Description
Essay - questions are given in the module handbook, distributed in week 1
Weighting
80%
Due date
14/12/2023
Assessment method
Aural Test
Assessment type
Summative
Description
Repertoire test
Weighting
20%
Due date
30/11/2023