| Semester 1 Credit Value: | 10 |
| Semester 2 Credit Value: | 10 |
| ECTS Credits: | 10.0 |
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This module aims to introduce the student to further contemporary and cross-cultural understandings of the nature of musical materials. Students will be considering specific case studies throughout the course and challenging preconceived notions about what musical materials are, how they can be analysed/understood, and how they are performed. This module is partly theoretical and builds upon the Music Theory modules (MUS1001, MUS1002, MUS1004, MUS1005, MUS1015 and MUS1044) undertaken at Stage 1
Students will be introduced to a variety of different musical practices, from other cultures and from different contemporary and popular practices, and will study these examples with reference to their musical material. These are directly related to the research interests of the staff delivering on the module and may reasonable include: popular music analysis, ubiquitous music, turntabalism, and subversive musical materials. The approaches will be analytical, cultural and historical and all will deal with musical forms that are seemingly resistant to conventional analysis. There will be opportunities to analyse and evaluate recording technologies as being part of contemporary musical material.
1. To know the value of understanding the historical and cultural context of the musics being considered in the module.
2. To know the value of understanding the historical and cultural impact of the musics being considered in the module.
3. To be able to define what is meant by ‘the past in the present’.
4. To know the difference and when to apply first and third person academic prose.
5. To know how to position an argument that is critically referenced.
6. To know how to use sources that are not from the academic press
1. To be able to identify the variety of musics that can be considered contemporary.
2. To be able to recognise the different types of material that can be considered as music in the 20th and 21st Century.
3. To be able to evaluate and apply different types of analysis as appropriate to the contemporary musical material under consideration.
4. To be able to analyse contemporary musical materials with cultural and historical context.
5. To be able to research, construct and present an argument to a set professional brief.
6. To be able to write a position piece article that would be suitable for public dissemination.
Please note that module leaders are reviewing the module teaching and assessment methods for Semester 2 modules, in light of the Covid-19 restrictions. There may also be a few further changes to Semester 1 modules. Final information will be available by the end of August 2020 in for Semester 1 modules and the end of October 2020 for Semester 2 modules.
| Category | Activity | Number | Length | Student Hours | Comment |
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| Structured Guided Learning | Lecture materials | 16 | 1:00 | 16:00 | OnlineSyn lecture talk with discussion of the associated tasks. |
| Guided Independent Study | Assessment preparation and completion | 16 | 2:00 | 32:00 | Reflect upon the learning outcomes and skills in relation to the assessment. |
| Structured Guided Learning | Lecture materials | 1 | 1:00 | 1:00 | Introductory online video/lecture and materials |
| Structured Guided Learning | Lecture materials | 8 | 2:00 | 16:00 | Asynchronous online lecture material with associated tasks. |
| Structured Guided Learning | Academic skills activities | 1 | 0:30 | 0:30 | Introductory online video by the student introducing themselves to the learning group. |
| Structured Guided Learning | Structured research and reading activities | 16 | 1:00 | 16:00 | Research/reading tasks set for students to investigate using guided online research methods |
| Scheduled Learning And Teaching Activities | Workshops | 8 | 2:00 | 16:00 | Synchronous online workshop that involves single and group student presentation. |
| Scheduled Learning And Teaching Activities | Drop-in/surgery | 16 | 1:00 | 16:00 | Synchronous online single and group tutorials. |
| Guided Independent Study | Independent study | 1 | 54:30 | 54:30 | Student to analyse and evaluate their learning and then create from the skills being explored |
| Guided Independent Study | Online Discussion | 16 | 2:00 | 32:00 | Discussion group for the students to engage either synchronously or asynchronously |
| Total | 200:00 |
The scheduled learning activities are designed to introduce the students to different types of contemporary musical material so that a plural and open definition can be understood, and so that an alternative mode of analysis is presented to the traditional score based approach to music. The students will also be expected to place their learning in a professional context so that the module outcomes are fit for purpose not only for their final year specialist study but also for when they graduate. The development of their critical voice is encouraged and supported throughout the module and assessed against the summative tasks: the first being an application for a job as a music researcher and the second being a position piece that the music researcher has been set from a brief.
Please note that module leaders are reviewing the module teaching and assessment methods for Semester 2 modules, in light of the Covid-19 restrictions. There may also be a few further changes to Semester 1 modules. Final information will be available by the end of August 2020 in for Semester 1 modules and the end of October 2020 for Semester 2 modules.
The format of resits will be determined by the Board of Examiners
| Description | Semester | When Set | Percentage | Comment |
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| Portfolio | 1 | A | 40 | Research driven covering letter for a job application |
| Portfolio | 2 | A | 60 | Think piece under the premise of a public facing publication |
The first task is weighted to reflect the student's engagement with the content of the module up to that point and their brief, which is grounded in real world context of a covering letter for a researcher, is appropriately worth c.1600 words. The second task is worth c.2400 words which is larger due to the need for the student to reflect upon their learning during the whole module and to respond to the portfolio brief which asks them to write a research-driven piece linked to content their learning on the module.
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