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Musicology & Ethnomusicology
Bachelor of MusicMajorYear: 2024
Musicology & Ethnomusicology
Contact information
Students currently admitted in this course:
Future students:
Coordinator
Nicholas Tochka
Overview
The Musicology & Ethnomusicology major is a rigorous program that prepares you to think and write about the aesthetics, significance, and meaning of music across diverse historical and cross-cultural contexts.
Musicology & Ethnomusicology students acquire skills and knowledge to explore how people use music in constructing cultural and personal meaning, as well as to understand how gender, race and politics shape people’s musical lives.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this major, students should be able to:
- situate their research in the contemporary disciplinary contexts of musicology, ethnomusicology and/or popular music studies;
- articulate relationships between diverse forms of musical knowledge, musical practice and cultural contexts with consideration and academic rigour;
- engage critically and productively in dialogue within the music research community;
- employ critical and analytical skills in researching music-making using historiographical and/or ethnographic methods;
- collaborate and engage with other researchers and music-makers in diverse research contexts;
- uphold rigorous intellectual and ethical standards in conducting research and representing music-makers;
- communicate research findings in musicology, ethnomusicology and popular music studies with accuracy, clarity and integrity;
- apply critical intelligence, self-reflection and creative problem-solving to their development as music researchers.
Last updated: 15 February 2024
Structure
225 credit points
To obtain a major in Musicology & Ethnomusicology students will need to complete:
- 137.5 credit points of core subjects including
- 62.5 credit points of Level 1 core subjects including
- 37.5 credit points of Level 1 Musicology and Ethnomusicology core subjects
25 credit points of Level 1 Composition stream subjects or 25 credit points of Level 1 Practical Music stream subjects
- 25 credit points of Level 2 Musicology & Ethnomusicology core subjects
- 50 credit points of Level 3 Musicology & Ethnomusicology core subjects including
- 37.5 credit points of Level 3 Musicology and Ethnomusicology core subjects
- 12.5 credit points of Level 3 Musicology and Ethnomusicology selective subjects
- 62.5 credit points of Level 1 core subjects including
- 50 credit points of Musicology & Ethnomusicology elective subjects
- 37.5 credit points of Music elective subjects including
- A maximum of 12.5 credit points of Level 1 Music elective subjects
Transfer Major Rules:
- Students may apply to transfer into the Musicology & Ethnomusicology Major from the Performance Major OR Composition Major.
- To transfer to Musicology & Ethnomusicology Major Year 2 students must:
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complete all Level 1 core subjects in the Performance Major OR Composition Major; and
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have permission of the coordinator.
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- To transfer to Musicology & Ethnomusicology Major Year 3 students must:
- have sufficient points remaining in the degree to complete all major requirements not yet met; and
- have permission of the coordinator.
Subject lists
Level 1 core subjects
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
MUSI10047 | Music History 1: 17th & 18th Centuries | Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank) |
12.5 |
MUSI10023 | Music Language 1: the Diatonic World |
Summer Term (Online)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank)
|
12.5 |
MUSI10227 | Musics of the World | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Level 1 Composition Stream subjects
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
MUSI10231 | Composition 1 | Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank) |
12.5 |
MUSI10232 | Composition 2 | Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank) |
12.5 |
Level 1 Practical Music Stream subjects
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
MUSI10220 | Practical Music 1 |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank)
|
12.5 |
MUSI10221 | Practical Music 2 |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank)
|
12.5 |
Level 2 core subjects
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
MUSI20198 | Music History 2: The Long 19th Century |
Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank)
|
12.5 |
MUSI20061 | Music Language 2: Chromaticism & Beyond |
Summer Term (Online)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank)
|
12.5 |
Level 3 core subjects
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
MUSI30249 | Music History 3: 20th & 21st Centuries |
Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank)
|
12.5 |
MUSI30046 | Music Language 3: Modern Directions |
Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank)
|
12.5 |
MUSI30273 | Musicology/Ethnomusicology Capstone | Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank) |
12.5 |
Level 3 selectives
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
MUSI30032 | Music Research | Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank) |
12.5 |
MUSI30053 | The Ethnography of Music | Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank) |
12.5 |
Musicology & Ethnomusicology electives
Students must complete 50 credit points of Musicology & Ethnomusicology elective subjects from the subjects below
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
MUSI10219 | Rock Music: From Roots to Retro | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
MUSI10227 | Musics of the World | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
MUSI20120 | Paris! Berlioz to the Ballets Russes | Not available in 2024 | 12.5 |
MUSI20217 | Topics in Ethnomusicology | Not available in 2024 | 12.5 |
MUSI20218 | Area Studies in Ethnomusicology | Not available in 2024 | 12.5 |
MUSI20219 | Global Pop | Not available in 2024 | 12.5 |
MUSI20224 | Music and Gender | Not available in 2024 | 12.5 |
MUSI20227 | Popular Music Studies | Not available in 2024 | 12.5 |
MUSI20231 | Indigenous Music and Musicians | Semester 1 (Online) |
12.5 |
MUSI20232 | Indigenous Musical Instruments | Semester 2 (Online) |
12.5 |
MUSI30004 | Music and Film since 1900 | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
MUSI30011 | Music in the Culture of the Renaissance | Not available in 2024 | 12.5 |
MUSI30015 | Sex, Death and the Ecstatic in Music | Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank) |
12.5 |
MUSI30030 | The Music Of Spain | Not available in 2024 | 12.5 |
MUSI30116 | Historical Performance Practice | Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank) |
12.5 |
MUSI30256 | The Romantic Piano | Not available in 2024 | 12.5 |
MUSI30269 | Music in Australia | Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank) |
12.5 |
MUSI30270 | Topics in Musicology | Not available in 2024 | 12.5 |
MUSI30271 | Topics in Popular Music Studies | Not available in 2024 | 12.5 |
MUSI30053 | The Ethnography of Music | Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank) |
12.5 |
MUSI30032 | Music Research | Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank) |
12.5 |
Please refer to the following pages for all available music elective subjects:
Music Electives
https://handbook.unimelb.edu.au/components/b-mus-infspc-4
Music Ensemble Electives
Last updated: 15 February 2024