Requisites: Pre-requisite: [Module MUS09152] Music and Praxis

The module is designed to guide you through a number of important developments in the music of the latter half of the 20th Century up until present day. You will explore musical evolution in terms of the development of particular styles, approaches and conventions. Additionally, the module will consider the importance of issues that reach beyond the purely musical, across other art forms (including visual art, architecture and dance) and social and political contexts, for example the aftermath of the Second World War. Topics to be covered include chance techniques, indeterminacy, graphic notation, electronic music, total serialism, minimalism, sound art and extended techniques. Consideration will also be given to crossovers between classical, jazz and popular music styles. A practical composition-based assessment will further develop your creative and technical insight into the music of the period. You will develop and apply these skills into a more creative compositional thinking, with a written component that provides a rationale and reflection on the creative process.

Upon completion of this module you will be able to

LO1: Critically reflect on music from the time period using appropriate terminology.

LO2: Synthesise and critically evaluate research findings in both written and oral form.

LO3: Construct composition-based assessments that use techniques and styles appropriate to the period.

LO4: Examine key musical works from the period studied and contextualise them within the social, political and artistic culture of the time.

LO5: Examine the relationship between the various influences of Modernism and Postmodernism, that may come to bear on a given musical work and/or style.