School: Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Music History: Baroque
  • Unit Code

    MUS2508
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    10
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Stewart James SMITH

Description

This unit explores the history of music in Western Europe, both sacred and secular, from 1600 to 1750. Representative musical works will be contextualised within general trends of musical style, as well as within the social, religious, and cultural framework of the day. Particularly attention will be paid to the history of performance practices, and the problems associated with performing this music today. Students will extend their skills in critical listening, score study, and basic musicological research.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from MUS1516

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Discuss the conventions of Baroque performance practice.
  2. Explain important musical concepts, ideas, and terms as they apply to the music of the Baroque period.
  3. Recognise, by listening and/or score study, the elements of Baroque music.
  4. Situate musical works within a cultural context.
  5. Use primary sources to construct a historical narrative.

Unit Content

  1. Handel and the oratorio.
  2. Lutheran church music: Bach.
  3. Performance practice issues.
  4. The French Baroque: Instrumental and vocal music.
  5. The Italian Baroque: Instrumental and vocal music.
  6. The rise of monody.
  7. The study of representative works of significant Baroque composers, and the cultural milieu in which they are situated.
  8. Venetian splendour.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered11 x 2 hour lectureNot Offered
Semester 1Not Offered11 x 1 hour tutorialNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, Tutorials, Individual Listening, Reading, and Score Study.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
TestAn in-class test25%
EssayA research assignment25%
ExaminationExamination50%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Music History: Baroque
  • Unit Code

    MUS2508
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    10
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Stewart James SMITH

Description

This unit explores the history of music in Western Europe, both sacred and secular, from 1600 to 1750. Representative musical works will be contextualised within general trends of musical style, as well as within the social, religious, and cultural framework of the day. Particularly attention will be paid to the history of performance practices, and the problems associated with performing this music today. Students will extend their skills in critical listening, score study, and basic musicological research.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from MUS1516

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Discuss the conventions of Baroque performance practice.
  2. Explain important musical concepts, ideas, and terms as they apply to the music of the Baroque period.
  3. Recognise, by listening and/or score study, the elements of Baroque music.
  4. Situate musical works within a cultural context.
  5. Use primary sources to construct a historical narrative.

Unit Content

  1. Handel and the oratorio.
  2. Lutheran church music: Bach.
  3. Performance practice issues.
  4. The French Baroque: Instrumental and vocal music.
  5. The Italian Baroque: Instrumental and vocal music.
  6. The rise of monody.
  7. The study of representative works of significant Baroque composers, and the cultural milieu in which they are situated.
  8. Venetian splendour.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered11 x 2 hour lectureNot Offered
Semester 1Not Offered11 x 1 hour tutorialNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, Tutorials, Individual Listening, Reading, and Score Study.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
TestAn in-class test25%
EssayA research assignment25%
ExaminationExamination50%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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