Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Improve your skills in writing about music.
- Improve your skills in analytical observation of music
- Introduce you to a range of musical idioms that were significant during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
- Consider music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in social, political and cultural contexts.
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- Provide an understanding of key developments in twentieth and twenty-first century music-making practices on a global scale.
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Wider reading or practice | 40 |
Lecture | 12 |
Preparation for scheduled sessions | 38 |
Seminar | 12 |
Completion of assessment task | 40 |
Revision | 8 |
Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
Paul Griffiths (1995). Modern Music and After: Directions Since 1945. OUP.
Michael Nyman (2011). Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond. Cambridge Univ. Press.
Joseph Auner (2013). Music in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.
Paul Griffiths (1994). A Concise History of Modern Music. Thames and Hudson.
Alex Ross (2009). The Rest is Noise. Harper Perennial.
James Saunders (editor) (2009). The Ashgate Research Companion to Experimental Music. Ashgate.
John Cage (1973). Silence: Lectures and Writings. Wesleyan University Press.
Andrew Ford (1997). Illegal Harmonies. Black Inc.
Robert P. Morgan (1993). Modern Times: From World War I to the Present. Macmillan.
Assessment
Assessment strategy
Include details of the proportion and weighting of coursework as well as the number, type and duration of examination(s). You must specify which element will be taken as the final assessment.Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Essay | 50% |
Assignment | 50% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Essay | 100% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Essay | 100% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External