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Music Analysis - CST4801

Honours NQF level: 8 Credits: 24
Module presented in English Module presented online
Purpose: Qualifying students will engage critically with historical and contemporary analytical paradigms in the field of music theory and analysis. Students will demonstrate competence through the analysis of works in selected genres: jazz, popular music, African music, and western art music. Students will demonstrate the ability to select and draw on a range of analytical methods appropriate to specific musical works and genres and their expressive and ideological universes, enabling them to construct convincing models of musical meaning.