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MUSI332 The Past is a Foreign Culture: Early European Music

Credit Points 6
Offering
Responsible Campus Teaching Period Mode of Study Online Level
Armidale Semester 1 Off Campus D - Comp/internet essential
Armidale Semester 1 On Campus C - Internet access required
Intensive School(s)
Start Finish Attendance Notes
15 April 2010 17 April 2010 Non-Mandatory Will only run if five (5) or more students elect to attend the school. [This will require approval from HOS if number is lower then the minimum (10) set out in the Intensive School Policy.]
Supervised Exam There is no UNE Supervised Examination.
Pre-requisites MUSI101 or MUSI103 or MUSI104 or MUSI105 or MUSI106 or MUSI107 or MUSI108 or MUSI109 or MUSI161 or MUSI162 or MUSI170 or MUSI171 or MUSI205 or MUSI206 or MUSI207 or MUSI208 or MUCO161 or MUCO162 or MUSP103 or MUSP104
Co-requisites None
Restrictions MUSI342 or MUCO242 or MUCO342
Notes

offered in even numbered years
Combined Units None
Coordinator(s) Jason Stoessel (jason.stoessel@une.edu.au)
Unit Description

This unit explores the music and culture of our European inheritance from the Middle Ages and Renaissance on a broad, cross-disciplinary basis including social history, cultural history, aesthetics and musical analysis. As well as providing a general overview, studies in this unit will concentrate on recent trends in the research and performance of the music from this period and how our approaches to music and culture from this period are conditioned by our own social and cultural values. Scope exists in this unit to develop advanced individual knowledge at the undergraduate level about one or more topics in music of this period.
Prescribed Material
Mandatory 		Shrink Wrapped Package(s):

Note: Students are expected to purchase prescribed material

Music in Western Civilisation
ISBN: 9780495477808
Roden, T.J. and others, Thomson-Schirmer 2007
Note: Package includes: Wright, C. and Simms,B.R., Music in Western Civilisation Vol. A (ISBN 9780495008675); Roden, T.J., Wright, C. and Simms, B.R., Anthology for Music in Western Civilisation, Vol. A (ISBN 9780495008798); and Weiss, P. and Taruskin, R., Music in the Western World (ISBN 9780534585990).
Text refers to: Semester 1 , On and Off Campus
Disclaimer Unit information may be subject to change prior to commencement of the teaching period.
Assessment
Title Exam Length Weight Mode No. Words
Assignment 1: Critical study 25% 1500
Assessment Notes
Analysis or critical study of a work or small collection of works from within the timeframe covered by the unit.
Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)
LO: 2, 6 GA: 1, 2, 4-7
Assignment 2: Essay 35% 2000
Assessment Notes
Essay on approved topic on the cultural context or reception history of piece of music from the Middle Ages or Renaissance.
Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)
LO: 2-6 GA: 1, 2, 4-7
Journal 10% up to 1000
Assessment Notes
On-campus students must record activities in Medieval and Renaissance Music Workshop; off-campus students must record their musical activities focusing on music related to this unit (this may constitute activities at Intensive School).
Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)
LO: 2, 3, 5 GA: 1, 2, 5, 7
Online Assessment 20%
Assessment Notes
Four short online knowledge tests (quizzes) with multiple choice and short responses
Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)
LO: 1, 3 GA: 1, 2, 4
Seminar 10%
Assessment Notes
Short seminar paper; includes peer-based assessment.
Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)
LO: 2-6 GA: 1, 2, 4-8

Learning Outcomes (LO) Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to:
  1. construct a timeline of music's development and significant moments within the period studied;
  2. recall and utilise a variety of analytical techniques and approaches for the music of this period;
  3. demonstrate a knowledge of wider cultural and intellectual values current in the period studied in this unit;
  4. demonstrate an awareness of the influence of early European culture upon subsequent societies;
  5. critically engage in and with performances of music from this period;
  6. present systematic analytical and hermeneutical findings in a well-structured and logical argument.

Graduate Attributes (GA)
Attribute Taught Assessed Practised
1 Knowledge of a Discipline
Knowledge of the discipline will be imparted though lectures and workshops, practised in structured class/online discussions, and formally assessed through assignments and online tests. 		True True True
2 Communication Skills
Communication skills will be demonstrated through lectures, developed through monitored discussions, and assessed through the presentation of a short seminar and essays. 		True True True
3 Global Perspectives
A global perspective of the discipline will be demonstrated through teaching and reserve reading. 		True True
4 Information Literacy
Information literacy will be taught and practised in the classroom in terms of locating, accessing, interpreting and evaluating primary and secondary sources, with ability in information literacy formally assessed in the two essays. 		True True True
5 Life-Long Learning
Analytical and critical skills will be taught, practised in the classroom and assessed through an essay in order to foster lifelong learning skills in music for graduates. 		True True True
6 Problem Solving
Problem solving and the application of knowledge are intrinsic to the teaching and outcomes of this unit, and this attribute is assessed in the two essays and the seminar. 		True True True
7 Social Responsibility
Social responsibility will be taught in the ethical use of sources and knowledge and this unit's emphasis on the role of value judgements in our reception of the past. This attribute is formally assessed in the two essays, seminar and journal. 		True True True
8 Team Work
Team work will be practised in the classroom activities and Intensive School, and assessed in the seminar, where mediated peer-based assessment will be included. 		True True True
   

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