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Riffs: Guitar Cultures & Practice 1 (MUSI10017)
Undergraduate level 1Points: 12.5Online
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
Summer Term
Semester 1
Overview
Availability | Summer Term - Online Semester 1 - Online |
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This subject introduces students to popular guitar styles that have had widespread impact over the past century, including blues, rock and global folk styles. In weekly tutorials, students will learn to play examples of these guitar styles, culminating in an end of semester group performance. Through weekly lectures students, students learn to recognise the musical and social significance of a range of global guitar styles. Feedback on guitar skills will be provided to students at weekly tutorials. Students will be expected to demonstrate their understanding of styles and topics through regular quizzes based on weekly readings
Guitars will be provided at tutorials. Students will need access to an instrument for practice outside of class.
Intended learning outcomes
Upon successful completion students should be able to:
- demonstrate basic maintenance and tuning techniques on the guitar;
- perform simple examples of global guitar styles in small groups;
- identify and demonstrate basic guitar playing techniques;
- recognize and critically discuss global guitar styles;
- use appropriate musical vocabulary to describe diverse musical styles.
Last updated: 11 April 2024
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: 11 April 2024
Assessment
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Weekly preparation of parts and active contribution to rehearsals.
| Throughout the teaching period | 30% |
Four multiple choice quizzes
| Throughout the teaching period | 20% |
A group practical assessment
| End of the teaching period | 20% |
A listening test
| During the examination period | 30% |
Last updated: 11 April 2024
Dates & times
- Summer Term - Online
Principal coordinator Ken Murray Mode of delivery Online Contact hours 36 hours, comprising one 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour group tuition class per week during the semester Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 6 January 2021 to 12 February 2021 Last self-enrol date 13 January 2021 Census date 22 January 2021 Last date to withdraw without fail 5 February 2021 Assessment period ends 19 February 2021 Summer Term contact information
- Semester 1 - Online
Principal coordinator Ken Murray Mode of delivery Online Contact hours 36 hours, comprising one 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour group tuition class per week during the semester Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 1 March 2021 to 30 May 2021 Last self-enrol date 12 March 2021 Census date 31 March 2021 Last date to withdraw without fail 7 May 2021 Assessment period ends 25 June 2021 Semester 1 contact information
Additional delivery details
Not available to BMus students.
Last updated: 11 April 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
A reading pack will be available for purchase from the Melbourne University Bookshop before the start of semester.
- Subject notes
Guitars will be provided at tutorials. Students will need access to an instrument for practice outside of class.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Graduate Diploma in Music - Breadth options
This subject is available as breadth in the following courses:
- Bachelor of Arts
- Bachelor of Biomedicine
- Bachelor of Commerce
- Bachelor of Design
- Bachelor of Environments
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Animation)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Film and Television)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Music Theatre)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Production)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Screenwriting)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Theatre)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Art)
- Bachelor of Science
- Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
- Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
This subject is available to students studying at the University from eligible overseas institutions on exchange and study abroad. Students are required to satisfy any listed requirements, such as pre- and co-requisites, for enrolment in the subject.
Last updated: 11 April 2024