School Of Humanities And Communication ArtsMusic and AnalysisWestern Sydney University Unit Code: 101152.3
Discipline: MUSIC
Student Contribution Band: 1
Level: 3
Credit Points: 10
Assumed Knowledge
101530 - Music Composition: Concepts and Creativity OR 101120 - Arranging Musics, OR equivalent (a working knowledge of music notation)
Equivalent Units
100410 - Analytical Models in Music
Prerequisite
101120 Arranging Musics OR 101530 Music Composition: Concepts and Creativity
Unit Enrolment Restrictions
The unit is available to students from any Western Sydney University undergraduate program as an elective provided they have completed the pre-requisite.
About this Unit
Analysis enables students to acquire a deep and rich understanding of music. This unit presents a variety of analytical methods that have been used on a diverse range of musics from both notated and non-notated traditions. Students will learn to apply these methods to a variety of musics through lectures and tutorials. They will gain knowledge of standard and non-standard structures. Models of analysis will range from those which are designed to focus on music as a meaning-making system in and of itself and those which encompass models developed outside the discipline of music, such as those that utilise critical theories.