Entry requirements

A Bachelor's degree, equivalent to a Swedish Kandidatexamen, from an internationally recognised university. Proficiency in English equivalent to the general entry requirements for first-cycle (Bachelor's level) studies

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, the student will have acquired a good understanding of analysis of music in non-notational forms, and of those aspects of notated music that are manifested through performance, mediation and written and oral discourses on music. The student will be able to demonstrate knowledge of a wide methodological scope and understanding of how music could be analysed be means of graphical, auditory, technical and discourse-oriented methods and theories.

Content

Music analysis in Western tradition has often taken as its point of departure the score from which music is typically produced and in which it can be mediated over time and varying contexts. This course approaches music from viewpoints and methodologies connected to listening, sensory experience and abstract understanding of, and reaction to, objects of musical analysis.

Instruction

Seminars and lectures.

Assessment

Seminar participation and presentations, written assignments.

If there are special reasons for doing so, an examiner may make an exception from the method of assessment indicated and allow a student to be assessed by another method. An example of special reasons might be a certificate regarding special pedagogical support from the University's disability coordinator.