Musicology
Description
The discipline of musicology highlights the need and the ways of music consideration, focusing on issues likely to influence the quality of the musical performance and to unlock the laws of musical cultural life. Recent western musicology knowledge-based insights include the musical language settings, musical movement pattern’ issues, music analysis techniques, performance ideologies, art and social music history research alternatives, critical musicology in postmodern discourse. The course is designed for anyone wishing to participate in pre-conscious cherishing musical culture.
Aim of the course
To know and test the application of scientific analysis of musical phenomena to music performance activities.
Prerequisites
Undergraduate Academic Music Skills.
Course content
Assesment Criteria
1. Identify the peculiarities of the context study describing musical phenomena
The seminar's speech is based on lecture material and adequately adapted to explain the specificities of the study of a particular aspect of performance.
2. Adapt the science context, structure, and appropriate research methods for the musical phenomenon analysis plan.
The research plan adequately revealed the structure of the musical phenomenon study – methods of analysis, methods of musical research have been adapted, the artistic and/or social nature of the phenomenon, and the reception for musicology research have been taken into account.
3. Formulate appropriate criteria for evaluating musical phenomena in the context of the study
The essay describes the discovery of the phenomenon study, the links between the defined methods of discovery and evaluation of the phenomenon, the discovery has been assessed from a critical, historical, and general point of view.