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Improvisation Pedagogy in World Music (MUSI90142)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Not available in 2018
Overview
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This subject covers the theory and practice of teaching and learning improvisation in cross-cultural perspective. Examples will be drawn from the world’s major improvised music traditions — Jazz, North Indian classical music, Persian and Arabic classical music and West African and Brazilian percussion ensembles. The subject is geared towards music educators, musicians with an interest in world music, and music students with an interest in theory and method in ethnomusicology.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students should have gained:
- An understanding and appreciation of improvised music traditions from Asia, Africa and the Americas
- An understanding of the specific methods of both oral and literate improvisation pedagogy in world music traditions
- An understanding of the ways that different improvisation pedagogy methods derive from specific musical aesthetics and produce distinct musical practices
- A fundamental understanding of the relationship between the practices of musical improvisation, approaches to musical pedagogy, and socio-cultural contexts for music in five major music cultures
Generic skills
On completion of this subject students will have enhanced the following generic skills:
• The ability to think critically about the relationship between aesthetic values, pedagogical methods, and specific kinds of musical improvisation
• The ability to read scholarly writing on music critically
• The ability to produce academic writing about music
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Assessment
Additional details
Research paper of 3500 words, relating to improvisation pedagogy, due six weeks after the final class (75%); 30 minute presentation on research paper topic, in the final class (25%).
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Dates & times
Not available in 2018
Time commitment details
48 hours (including non-contact time).
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Musical Improvisation: Art, Education, Society, ed. Gabriel Solis and Bruno Nettl. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009
A reading pack, including articles on Jazz education, North Indian music education and Brazilian music, will be distributed prior to the first class.
- Links to additional information
Last updated: 3 November 2022