New Online Course Catalogue will be available soon.
MUS 747 : Research in Musicology
Creative Arts and Industries
2020 Semester One (1203) (30 POINTS)
Course Prescription
Course Overview
This course explores some of these principal concepts and methods in relation to representative texts and authors from the past few generations. Students will consider, critique and compare scholarly writings, also exploring how concepts and methods can be implemented in future research of their own. The course, then, is essential for students planning to continue with independent musicological study. Equally, the course will assist all students to think critically and imaginatively about the literature they encounter, and the various ways in which this literature might cast new light on all forms of musical experience – listening, performing and composing, as well as academic writing and research.
Course Co-ordinator
373 7599 x82367
Capabilities Developed in this Course
| Capability 1: | Disciplinary Knowledge and Practice |
| Capability 2: | Critical Thinking |
| Capability 4: | Communication and Engagement |
Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate a thorough knowledge of the principal research concepts and methods specific to the discipline of musicology in recent years (Capability 1)
- Consider, critique and compare these methods and concepts (Capability 2)
- Apply this knowledge and critical thinking to a series of short essays (Capability 1 and 2)
- Communicate ideas clearly and effectively through spoken presentation and well-written, well-referenced and well-argued prose (Capability 4)
Teaching & Learning Methods
Learning Resources
Blanning, Tim The Triumph of Music: The Rise of Composers, Musicians and Their Art (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2012)
Bonds, Mark Evan Music as Thought: Listening to the Symphony in the Age of Beethoven (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006)
Caplin, William “The Classical Cadence: Conceptions and Misconceptions”, Journal of the American Musicological Society 57/1 (2004), 51-118
Goehr, Lydia The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works: An Essay in the Philosophy of Music, revised edition (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007)
Johnson, James Listening in Paris: A Cultural History (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995)
Lehman, Frank Hollywood Harmonies: Musical Wonder and the Sound of Cinema (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018)
McClary, Susan “Gender Ambiguities and Erotic Excess in the Operas of Cavalli”, in Desire and Pleasure in Seventeenth-Century Music (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012), 104-126
Margulis, Elizabeth Margulis On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014)
Parakilas, James “The Power of Domestication in the Lives of Musical Canons”, Repercussions 4/1 (1995), 5–25
Taruskin, Richard The Oxford History of Western Music, five volumes (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005)
Weber, William “The History of Musical Canon”, in Rethinking Music, ed. Nicholas Cook and Mark Everist (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 336–355
Workload Expectations
This course is a thirty-point course and students are expected to spend 20 hours per week involved in each thirty-point course that they are enrolled in.
For this course, you can expect a minimum of 24 hours supervision, 112 hours of reading and thinking about the content and 164 hours of work on assignments.
Digital Resources
Course materials are made available in a learning and collaboration tool called Canvas which also includes reading lists and lecture recordings (where available).
Please remember that the recording of any class on a personal device requires the permission of the instructor.
Academic Integrity
The University of Auckland will not tolerate cheating, or assisting others to cheat, and views cheating in coursework as a serious academic offence. The work that a student submits for grading must be the student's own work, reflecting their learning. Where work from other sources is used, it must be properly acknowledged and referenced. This requirement also applies to sources on the internet. A student's assessed work may be reviewed against online source material using computerised detection mechanisms.
Inclusive Learning
All students are asked to discuss any impairment related requirements privately, face to face and/or in written form with the course coordinator, lecturer or tutor.
Student Disability Services also provides support for students with a wide range of impairments, both visible and invisible, to succeed and excel at the University. For more information and contact details, please visit the Student Disability Services’ website at http://disability.auckland.ac.nz
Special Circumstances
If your ability to complete assessed coursework is affected by illness or other personal circumstances outside of your control, contact a member of teaching staff as soon as possible before the assessment is due.
If your personal circumstances significantly affect your performance, or preparation, for an exam or eligible written test, refer to the University’s aegrotat or compassionate consideration page: https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/students/academic-information/exams-and-final-results/during-exams/aegrotat-and-compassionate-consideration.html.
This should be done as soon as possible and no later than seven days after the affected test or exam date.
Student Feedback
At the end of every semester students will be invited to give feedback on the course and teaching through a tool called SET or Qualtrics. The lecturers and course co-ordinators will consider all feedback and respond with summaries and actions.
Your feedback helps teachers to improve the course and its delivery for future students.
Class Representatives in each class can take feedback to the department and faculty staff-student consultative committees.
Student Charter and Responsibilities
The Student Charter assumes and acknowledges that students are active participants in the learning process and that they have responsibilities to the institution and the international community of scholars. The University expects that students will act at all times in a way that demonstrates respect for the rights of other students and staff so that the learning environment is both safe and productive. For further information visit Student Charter (https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/students/forms-policies-and-guidelines/student-policies-and-guidelines/student-charter.html).
In the event of unexpected disruption
We undertake to maintain the continuity and standard of teaching and learning in all your courses throughout the year. If there are unexpected disruptions, the University has contingency plans to ensure that access to your course continues and your assessment is fair, and not compromised. Some adjustments may need to be made in emergencies. In the event of a disruption, the University and your course coordinators will make every effort to provide you with up to date information via Canvas and the University website.
Copyright Warning Notice
This material is protected by copyright and has been copied by and solely for the educational purposes of the University under license. You may not sell, alter or further reproduce or distribute any part of this course pack/material to any other person. Where provided to you in electronic format, you may only print from it for your own private study and research. Failure to comply with the terms of this warning may expose you to legal action for copyright infringement and/or disciplinary action by the University.
Disclaimer
Elements of this outline may be subject to change. The latest information about the course will be available for enrolled students in Canvas.
In this course you may be asked to submit your coursework assessments digitally. The University reserves the right to conduct scheduled tests and examinations for this course online or through the use of computers or other electronic devices. Where tests or examinations are conducted online remote invigilation arrangements may be used. The final decision on the completion mode for a test or examination, and remote invigilation arrangements where applicable, will be advised to students at least 10 days prior to the scheduled date of the assessment, or in the case of an examination when the examination timetable is published.