MUSI20002: Impressionism to Postmodernism in Music

3 x 500 word assignments worth 10% each, due throughout the semester, 1 x 2000 word essay worth 50% due in latter part of semester, one hour listening test during exam period worth 20%.

First up, if you are not in the slightest bit interested in experimental/avant-garde 20th century music, stay away from this subject. If you can tolerate it but aren't really into it, perhaps select a different history subject.

This unit covers art music of the 20th century. Composers studied include Debussy, Satie, Stravinsky, Webern, Shoenberg, Berg, de Falla, Boulez, Stockhausen, Messaien, Bartok, Cage, Riley, Reich, Adams, Berio and many other various post-modern composers/musicians. Most of the content relates to each composer's musical philosophies and their contexts as well as techniques they used.

The assessment consists of 3 assignments due every 3 or 4 weeks. Each week in the reader there is an assignment question and you must choose one relating to the past few weeks. They aren't too difficult providing you relatively scrupiously look through the relevant reading and you know Chicago style fairly well. The listening test consists of being played 4 out of 12 works from various composers you have studied. You have 15 minutes for each work to write down as much as you know about it, roughly about a page's worth.

I enjoyed this subject and found it relatively easy but as I said earlier you need to have a certain taste for the avant-garde.

Don't think so but lecture slides available on LMS.

Sue Robinson and Linda Kouvaras

No.

4/5

Reader available at co-op.

1 x One hour weekly tute, 1 x One hour weekly lecture.

2013 Semester 2

H2B (72)