Music sources and transmission

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• identify and evaluate materials and artifacts in music history (including instruments, scores and recordings)
• listen critically to recordings and others sonic artefacts of music
• develop a critical approach to the study of musical “texts” and “works”

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• the inherent problems with the construction of historical narratives
• modes of music transmission and the concept of what constitutes a musical “work”

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• build engaging arguments
• use university-level techniques of academic writing and referencing

Indicative topics might include :

• Global paths of transmission, circulation and exchange
• Creative practice in the community
• Interpreting material artefacts of music history
• Music alphabetisation, class, inclusivity
• Oral transmission
• Systems of notations
• Scores: Manuscripts and Editions
• Sustainability and environmental costs of recordings and streaming
• Collaborative authorship and its sources
• Performance creativity and improvisation
• Historical instruments

Teaching methods include:

• Lectures

Learning activities include:

• Group work exercises
• Individual study and critical listening
• Accessing and interacting with online resources

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.