Bachelor of Music
Musicology Major
Musicologists are interested in how music is made, why people listen to music and how music is heard in particular ways. This major explores the history of music, how music is constructed, and the ways it is understood and used by people around the world. Core units of study are also taken in music skills, analysis, history and culture studies.
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Area of Study |
Credit Points |
To qualify for the award of pass degree, the following minimum levels of achievement must be reached |
|---|---|---|
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Musicology |
48 |
12 cps x 1000-level Musicology units, including MCGY1019 Musicology Workshop 1 and MCGY1020 Musicology Workshop 2; 3 x 2000-level and 3 x 3000-level Musicology units including 6cps in Historical Studies, 6cps in Ethnographic Studies and 6cps in Analytical Studies |
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Music Skills |
24 |
24 cps in Music Theory and Aural Skills |
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Analysis, History and Culture Studies |
24 |
MCGY1030 This is Music; 18 cps in AHCS Foundation Units, or 12 cps in AHCS Foundation Units plus MUSC2638 Jazz Riots and Revolutions |
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Year 4 Project |
36 |
PROJXXXX Project 1A -2A; 12 cps in project related electives |
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Electives |
60 |
Including 12 cps in performance units |
Indicative enrolment pathway
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Semester 1 |
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Semester 2 |
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Semester 3 |
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Semester 4 |
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Music Skills |
6 |
Music Skills |
6 |
Music Skills |
6 |
Music Skills |
6 |
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MCGY1030 This is Music |
6 |
MCGY1031 Musical Worlds of Today OR MUSC1506 Music in Western Culture |
6 |
MUSC2638 Jazz Riots and Revolution or AHCS Foundation unit |
6 |
Foundation AHCS
|
6 |
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MCGY1019 Musicology Workshop 1 |
3 |
MCGY1020 Musicology Workshop 2 |
3 |
Musicology elective |
6 |
Musicology elective |
6 |
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Performance |
3 |
Performance |
3 |
Performance |
3 |
Performance |
3 |
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Free choice |
6 |
Free choice |
6 |
Free choice |
3 |
Free choice |
3 |
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24 |
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24 |
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24 |
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24 |
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Semester 5 |
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Semester 6 |
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Semester 7 |
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Semester 8 |
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Foundation AHCS |
6 |
Analytical Studies UoS |
6 |
Project 1A |
12 |
Project 2A |
12 |
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Historical Studies UoS |
6 |
Ethnographic Studies UoS |
6 |
Project related elective |
6 |
Project related elective |
6 |
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Musicology elective |
6 |
Free Choice |
12 |
Free Choice |
6 |
Free Choice |
6 |
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Free Choice |
6 |
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24 |
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24 |
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24 |
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24 |
Musicology Electives
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Foundation Units |
Cps |
|---|---|
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MCGY1030 This is Music |
6 |
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MCGY1031 Musical Worlds of Today |
6 |
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MCGY2611 Music from the Middle Ages to Baroque |
6 |
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MCGY2612 Music in the Classical and Romantic Eras |
6 |
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MCGY2613 Music in Modern Times |
6 |
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MUSC1506 Music in Western Culture |
6 |
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JAZZ1021; 1022; 2018; 2019 Jazz History 1-4 |
3 |
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Historical Studies |
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MCGY3631 African-American Music Inquiry |
6 |
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MCGY3636 Classicism and Transformation |
6 |
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MCGY3604 J.S. Bach and his World |
6 |
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MCGY3639 Modernism in Austria and Germany 1889-1914 |
6 |
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MUSC3609 Musicology |
6 |
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MCGY3629 Romanticism and the Fantastic |
6 |
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Ethnographical Studies |
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MUSC3629 Music in Everyday Life |
6 |
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MUSC3610 Musical Traditions and Globalization |
6 |
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MCGY3602 Understanding East Asian Music |
6 |
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MUSC3640 Rhythms & Sounds of Latin America |
6 |
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MUSC2637 Aboriginal Song and Country |
6 |
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Analytical Studies |
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MCGY2600 Advanced Harmony |
6 |
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MCGY3601 Analysis of Nineteenth-Century Music |
6 |
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JAZZ3618 Jazz Musicology and Analysis |
6 |
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MCGY3638 Harmony as Counterpoint |
6 |
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CMPN4666 Advanced Analysis |
6 |
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Musicology electives |
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MCGY1031 Musical Worlds of Today |
6 |
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MUSC1507 Sounds, Screens, Speakers |
6 |
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MUSC2638 Jazz Riots and Revolutions |
6 |
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MUSC2645 Psychology of Music |
6 |
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MUSC2663 Survey of Film Music |
6 |
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MUSC2672 Australian Popular Music |
6 |
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MCGY2601 Perception of Music Performance |
6 |
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MCGY2611 Music from the Middle Ages to Baroque |
6 |
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MCGY2612 Music in the Classical and Romantic Eras |
6 |
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MCGY2613 Music in Modern Times |
6 |
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MUSC2662 Music in the Sixties |
6 |
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MUSC2667 Shakespeare as Opera |
6 |
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MCGY2615 The Ultimate Art: 400 Years of Opera |
6 |
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MCGY3603 Baroque Music History and Performance |
6 |
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MUSC3639 Music Journalism |
6 |
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MCGY3617 Music Through Literature |
6 |
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MCGY3630 New Germans: Wagner & Liszt 1848-76 |
6 |
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MCGY3627 Paleography of Music |
6 |
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MUSC3624 Music and Sound in 21st Century Film |
6 |
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MUSC3631 Music in Public: Performance and Power |
6 |
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MUSC3630 Popular Music and the Moving Image |
6 |
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MCGY4601 Research Methods |
6 |