| Semester 1, 2023 Springfield On-campus | |
| Units : | 1 |
| School or Department : | School of Creative Arts |
| Grading basis : | Graded |
| Course fee schedule : | /current-students/administration/fees/fee-schedules |
Staffing
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Requisites
Pre-requisite: Students must be enrolled in one of the following Programs: BMUC or BEDU or BCAW or have the approval of the program director
Overview
A fundamental element of a contemporary musician鈥檚 ongoing experience is understanding their own creative and research practices within the wider musical and cultural contexts. Creative musicians initiate and maintain an engagement with musical ideas and understandings, and investigate these in both formal and informal ways. This course aims to prepare students for a future as an independent artist/researcher, consolidating their acquired musical knowledge and extending musicological research techniques and methods.
This course promotes self-directed learning, with the opportunity to demonstrate discipline knowledge at an advanced level.
This course introduces students to methodologies for musical research within contemporary music styles - such as ethnography and practice-led research - to explore artefacts, languages and performance practice in contemporary music.
Students will engage with discipline knowledge in workshop format and independent practice work in progress stages with reporting and consultation.
Students develop and deliver a self-designed research project to interrogate the musical fabric of a chosen genre or sub-genre of popular music. Outcomes include a portfolio that may include a research paper, a folio of creative work or a lecture recital.
Course learning outcomes
On successful completion of this course students should be able to:
- Position and critically evaluate a self-developed project within a musicological context.
- Independently conduct research into methodologies appropriate for a chosen project.
- Plan and develop a research project.
- Implement the project and communicate the findings in a discipline-specific manner.
Topics
| Description | Weighting(%) | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Music Research overview | 10.00 |
| 2. | Artist as researcher | 30.00 |
| 3. | Analysing music as text | 20.00 |
| 4. | Negotiating a project | 10.00 |
| 5. | Presenting and framing research | 10.00 |
| 6. | Planning and developing a project | 10.00 |
| 7. | Implementing theoretical knowledge | 10.00 |
Text and materials required to be purchased or accessed
Student workload expectations
To do well in this subject, students are expected to commit approximately 10 hours per week including class contact hours, independent study, and all assessment tasks. If you are undertaking additional activities, which may include placements and residential schools, the weekly workload hours may vary.
Assessment details
| Description | Group Assessment |
Weighting (%) | Course learning outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Planning document | No | 20 | 1,3 |
| Report | No | 30 | 2,3 |
| Portfolio | No | 50 | 1,2,3,4 |