Music Table
Please check the current students website (Find a unit of study) for up-to-date information on units of study including availability.
Unit outlines will be available through Find a unit outline two weeks before the first day of teaching for 1000-level and 5000-level units, or one week before the first day of teaching for all other units.
| Unit of study | Credit points | A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition | Session |
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Music |
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Major |
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| A major in Music requires 48 credit points from this table, including: | |||
| (i) 6 credit points of 1000-level units from Analysis, History and Culture Studies units | |||
| (ii) 6 credit points of 1000-level units from Music Skills: Music Theory and Aural Skills units | |||
| (iii) 12 credit points of 2000-level units | |||
| (iv)18 credit points of 3000-level units, including MUSC3699 Understanding Music: Modes of Hearing | |||
| (v) 6 credit points of 3000-level Interdisciplinary Project units such as PERF3640 Industry and Community Projects | |||
Minor |
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| A minor in Music requires 36 credit points from this table including: | |||
| (i) 6 credit points of 1000-level units from Analysis, History and Culture Studies units | |||
| (ii) 6 credit points of 1000-level units from Music Skills: Music Theory and Aural Skills units | |||
| (iii) 12 credit points of 2000-level selective units | |||
| (iv) 12 credit points of 3000-level selective units | |||
1000 level units of study |
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Analysis, History and Culture Studies |
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| MCGY1030 This is Music |
6 |
This is a Foundation unit in Analysis, History and Culture studies. |
Semester 1 |
| MCGY1031 Australian Musical Worlds |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| MUSC1506 Music in Western Culture |
6 | A The ability to follow a musical score while listening to the music and knowledge of elementary music theory |
Semester 2 |
| MUSC1507 Sounds, Screens, Speakers: Music and Media |
6 | Semester 1 |
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Music Skills |
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| MUSC1501 Extended Fundamentals of Music |
6 | A HSC Music 2 |
Semester 2 |
| MUSC1503 Fundamentals of Music 1 |
6 | Semester 1 Semester 2 |
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| MUSC1504 Fundamentals of Music 2 |
6 | Semester 1 Semester 2 |
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2000 level units of study |
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| MCGY2601 Perception of Music Performance |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| MCGY2611 Music from the Middle Ages to Baroque |
6 | A Ability to read musical notation |
Semester 2 |
| MCGY2612 Music in the Classical and Romantic Eras |
6 | A The ability to read musical notation and basic knowledge of music theory This is a Foundation unit in Analysis, History and Culture studies. |
Semester 1 |
| MCGY2613 Music in Modern Times |
6 | A Ability to read musical notation This is a Foundation unit in Analysis, history and culture studies. |
Semester 1 |
| MCGY2621 Exploring Ethnomusicology |
6 | P MCGY1030 This is a compulsory unit for the minor in ethnomusicology. If prerequisite not met, you may apply for special permission. |
Semester 2 |
| MUSC2612 Music Performance |
6 |
Note: Department permission required for enrolment Audition Requirements: 2 contrasting pieces (or excerpts) totalling 5 minutes and a brief interview. Must have 18 credit points of 1000-level units from any discipline or faculty. |
Semester 1 |
| MUSC2613 Music Ensembles Performance |
6 | P MUSC2612 |
Semester 2 |
| MUSC2614 Composition Workshop |
6 | P 18 credit points of 1000-level units |
Semester 1 |
| MUSC2638 Jazz Riots and Revolutions This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| MUSC2644 Introduction to the Philosophy of Music |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| MUSC2645 Psychology of Music |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| MUSC2648 Words and Music : Song Across Cultures |
6 | P 18 credit points of 1000-level units |
Semester 1 |
| MUSC2653 Introduction to Digital Music Techniques |
6 |
An ability to read music at a basic level and an understanding of fundamental musical terminology is an advantage in this unit of study. |
Semester 1 |
| MUSC2654 Popular Music |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| MUSC2663 Survey of Film Music |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| MUSC2666 Global Sound: Drum and Bass, Rhythm and Soul |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| MUSC2672 Australian Popular Music |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| MUSC2675 History of the Musical |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| MUSC2693 Fundamentals of Music 3 |
6 | P MUSC1504 |
Semester 2 |
| MUSC2695 Popular Music Theory |
6 | P MUSC1503 or MUSC1504 or MUSC1501 or MUSC2693 or MCGY1009 or JAZZ1621 or JAZZ1019 |
Semester 1 |
3000 level units of study |
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Core |
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| MUSC3699 Understanding Music: Modes of Hearing |
6 |
A good working knowledge of musical terminology and vocabulary is required. |
Semester 2 |
Selective |
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| MCGY3602 Understanding East Asian Music |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| MCGY3604 J.S. Bach and his World |
6 | A Broad knowledge of Baroque music equivalent to MCGY2611 or MUSC1506 |
Semester 1 |
| MCGY3629 Romanticism and the Fantastic This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | A It is expected that students will have some knowledge of harmonic and formal practices up to 1850. |
Semester 1 |
| MCGY3630 New Germans: Wagner and Liszt 1848-76 |
6 | A It is expected that students will have some knowledge of harmonic and formal practices up to 1850 P MCGY2612 |
Semester 1 |
| MCGY3636 Mozart's World: Music in the Age of Reason This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | A It is strongly recommended that students have completed MCGY2612, or have a sound knowledge of the Viennese Classical repertoire. Dr Alan Maddox |
Semester 1 |
| MCGY3639 Modernism in Austria and Germany 1889-1914 This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | P MCGY2612 |
Semester 2 |
| MUSC3603 Advanced Digital Music Techniques |
6 | P MUSC2653 or CMPN1013 |
Semester 2 |
| MUSC3609 Musicology |
6 |
This unit is a requirement for Honours in the Arts Music unit. |
Semester 2 |
| MUSC3610 Musical Traditions and Globalization This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| MUSC3629 Music and Everyday Life |
6 |
This unit is a requirement for Honours in the BA. |
Semester 2 |
| MUSC3630 Popular Music and the Moving Image |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| MUSC3631 Music in Public: Performance and Power |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| MUSC3639 Music Journalism |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| MUSC3640 Rhythms and Sounds of Latin America This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 |
Musical knowledge may be helpful but not necessary |
Semester 2 |
| MUSC3641 Music, Environment and Climate Change This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| MUSC3699 Understanding Music: Modes of Hearing |
6 |
A good working knowledge of musical terminology and vocabulary is required. |
Semester 2 |
Interdisciplinary Project units of study |
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| PERF3640 Industry and Community Projects |
6 | A upper-level disciplinary knowledge P 72 credit points C Interdisciplinary Impact in any major |
Intensive February Intensive July Semester 1 Semester 2 |