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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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Music History: Classical and Romantic

  • Unit Code

    MUS1570

  • Year

    2022

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

    N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Philip Cameron EVERALL

Description

This unit explores the history of music in Western Europe from the mid-eighteenth through the nineteenth centuries. The unit focuses on principal stylistic developments in the major genres of the period, considering how developments in musical form and style reflects the changing expressive aspirations of composers, the performance practices of musicians and the listening habits of audiences. Students continue to extend their skills in critical listening, score study and musicological research.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Explain important musical concepts, ideas and terms as they apply to the music of the Classical and Romantic periods, demonstrating a close familiarity with a number of pivotal works from both periods.
  2. Analyse musical works, situating them within an historical and cultural context.
  3. Communicate how to apply conventions of historical performance practice to their own performance of works from the Classical and Romantic periods.
  4. Produce a podcast with sound examples.
  5. Conduct basic musicological research using analytical and critical methods.

Unit Content

  1. The study of representative works of significant Classical and Romantic composers, and the cultural milieu in which they are situated.
  2. Historical performance practices.
  3. Early recordings.
  4. Approaches to analysis.
  5. Audio presentation skills.
  6. Finding and using copyrighted media and publishing work online.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

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

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students focus on performance practice and reception history, study historical treatises, listen to early recordings and, where applicable, put theory into practice via historically informed performances.

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
AssignmentPodcast50%
ProjectAnalysis project50%

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 Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Music History: Classical and Romantic

  • Unit Code

    MUS1570

  • Year

    2022

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

    N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Philip Cameron EVERALL

Description

This unit explores the history of music in Western Europe from the mid-eighteenth through the nineteenth centuries. The unit focuses on principal stylistic developments in the major genres of the period, considering how developments in musical form and style reflects the changing expressive aspirations of composers, the performance practices of musicians and the listening habits of audiences. Students continue to extend their skills in critical listening, score study and musicological research.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Explain important musical concepts, ideas and terms as they apply to the music of the Classical and Romantic periods, demonstrating a close familiarity with a number of pivotal works from both periods.
  2. Analyse musical works, situating them within an historical and cultural context.
  3. Communicate how to apply conventions of historical performance practice to their own performance of works from the Classical and Romantic periods.
  4. Produce a podcast with sound examples.
  5. Conduct basic musicological research using analytical and critical methods.

Unit Content

  1. The study of representative works of significant Classical and Romantic composers, and the cultural milieu in which they are situated.
  2. Historical performance practices.
  3. Early recordings.
  4. Approaches to analysis.
  5. Audio presentation skills.
  6. Finding and using copyrighted media and publishing work online.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

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

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students focus on performance practice and reception history, study historical treatises, listen to early recordings and, where applicable, put theory into practice via historically informed performances.

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
AssignmentPodcast50%
ProjectAnalysis project50%

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 Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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