Module: Topics in Musicology 6

Module Specifications.

Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025

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Date posted: September 2024

Module Title	Topics in Musicology 6
Module Code	MC304 (ITS) / MPA1045 (Banner)
Faculty	Humanities & Social Sciences	School	Theology, Philosophy & Music
Module Co-ordinator	Barbara Dignam
Module Teachers	-
NFQ level	8	Credit Rating	5
Pre-requisite	Not Available
Co-requisite	Not Available
Compatibles	Not Available
Incompatibles	Not Available

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Description

The purpose of this module is to engage students with two further subjects within the discipline of musicology: Modern and Contemporary Art Music and Irish Traditional Music (2). Students undertake general topics in addition to detailed analytical studies of prescribed works or featured genres, as appropriate; they are introduced to relevant analytical, critical, cross-cultural and historical information, and to a range of skills and competencies enabling them to understand musicological concepts as they relate to contemporary art music. Irish Traditional Music (2) presents critical, analytic, and ethnomusicological perspectives on aspects of revival, continuity, innovation, and lived experience within the tradition. This course will span areas which are relevant to developing an understanding of Irish traditional music performance and practice from the early twentieth-century to the present day.

Learning Outcomes

1. Understand musical characteristics, forms, styles and compositional techniques of art music from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century
2. Engage with aesthetic philosophies and compositional principles of the milieux outlined in LO 1
3. Analyse and appraise representative works from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century
4. Listen and engage with music with greater awareness, illustrate its inherent patterns, and read and critique relevant texts relating to its study, practice and reception
5. Apply musicological information and analytical skills in researching and communicating informed assessments of music across a range of stylistic and socio-historical contexts.
6. Understand and interpret various stylistic and socio-musical movements within the field of Irish traditional music, and apply critical, analytic, and ethnomusicological perspectives on specific musical examples from these movements.

*Type*	*Hours*	*Description*
Workload	Full-time hours per semester
Lecture	24	Lectures
Independent Study	101	Independent Learning
Total Workload: 125

All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml

Indicative Content and Learning Activities

Modern and Contemporary Art Music
Early twentieth century music – from Debussy to Schoenberg • Art music developments in the mid-twentieth century • Extended string techniques in the music of Penderecki • The American Minimalists • Recent developments in Irish art music • The Song Cycles of Seoirse Bodley

Irish Traditional Music (2)
Contemporary Developments in Irish Traditional Music • Celtic Connections: Irish Traditional Music in the Global Context • Musicians among the Irish diaspora • The Parameters of Style in Irish Traditional Music • Communities of Practice: Irish Traveller Song

Assessment Breakdown
Continuous Assessment	40%	Examination Weight	60%

Type	Description	% of total	Assessment Date
Course Work Breakdown
Essay	Essay	40%	n/a

Reassessment Requirement Type
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories: Resit category 1: A resit is available for both* components of the module. Resit category 2: No resit is available for a 100% continuous assessment module. Resit category 3: No resit is available for the continuous assessment component where there is a continuous assessment and examination element.
* ‘Both’ is used in the context of the module having a Continuous Assessment/Examination split; where the module is 100% continuous assessment, there will also be a resit of the assessment
This module is category 1

Indicative Reading List

Burkholder, J. Peter and Palisca, Claude V. ed.: 2014, Norton Anthology of Western Music; Volume Three: The Twentieth Century and After, W.W Norton & Co, New York,
Brown, A. Peter: 2003, The Second Golden Age of the Viennese Symphony, Indiana University Press, Indiana,
Byrne Bodley, Lorraine, ed.: 0, A Hazardous Melody of Being, Seoirse Bodley’s Song Cycles on the Poems of Micheal O’ Siadhail, Carysfort Press, Dublin,
Dowling, Martin: 2014, Traditional Music and Irish Society: Historical Perspectives, Ashgate, Farnham, Surrey,
Fitzgerald, Mark and O’Flynn, John (eds): 2014, Music and Identity in Ireland and Beyond, Ashgate, Farnham, Surrey,
McCarthy, M.: 1999, Passing It On: The Transmission of Music in Irish Culture, Cork University Press, Cork,
Morgan, Robert P.: 1991, Twentieth Century Music, Norton & Co, New York,
Morgan, Robert P.: 1992, Anthology of Twentieth Century Music, W.W Norton & Co, New York,
Ó’ Canainn, T.: 1978, Traditional Music in Ireland, Routledge, London,
O’ Flynn, J.: 2009, The Irishness of Irish Music, Ashgate Publishing Limited, Farnham,
O’ Shea, H.: 2008, The Making of Irish Traditional Music, Cork University Press, Cork,
Potter, Keith: 2002, Four Musical Minimalists, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,
Rosen, Charles: 1988, Sonata Forms, W. W. Norton, New York,
Ross, Alex: 2009, The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, Harper Perrenial, New York,
Taruskin, Richard: 2009, Music in the Early Twentieth Century, Oxford University Press, Oxford,
Taruskin, Richard: 2010, Music in the Late Twentieth Century, Oxford University Press, Oxford,
Turino, T.: 2008, Music as Social Life: The Politics of Participation, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London,
Vallely, F., ed.: 2011, The Companion to Irish Traditional Music, 2nd ed., Cork University Press, Cork:,
Whittall, Arnold: 2003, Exploring twentieth-century music: tradition and innovation, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,

Other Resources

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