MUSICOLOGY

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.

Playing with History: the Early Music Movement and Its Impact on Recent Performing Trends - MUS4801
Honours	NQF level: 8	Credits: 24
Module presented in English	Module presented online
Purpose: This paper deals with an aspect of late twentieth-century and early twenty-first century musical history which has become crucially significant for performers, listeners and indeed the entire 'art music' industry as a whole, including the not insignificant recording industry: the unfolding of the early music movement and the effect it's had on how we perform, listen to and perceive early music. And since the term 'early music' - no longer refers to the esoteric music of some bygone age - it is now taken to mean Western music up to and including the early twentieth century (Mahler, Elgar, Ravel, Bartok and so on) - it includes most of the repertoire that almost all performers and music-lovers are familiar with. 'Early music' is therefore no longer a specialist category in music. The purview of this paper affects all of us to a substantial degree.

South African Encounters in Music - MUS4802
Honours	NQF level: 8	Credits: 24
Module presented in English	Module presented online
Purpose: In this paper, you will be introduced to aspects of music in South Africa, from the point of view of critical theory. You will explore the contributions of major scholars in the field and various schools of thought marking this development extensively. You will also explore themes in southern African music studies by familiarising yourself with the literature and work of scholars in the field. This paper also includes an introduction to key debates in preservation, heritage and issues of public culture and ownership

Research Methodologies in Musicology - MUS4803
Honours	NQF level: 8	Credits: 12
Module presented in English	Module presented online
Purpose: One of the chief strategies of this paper will be to help you focus on recent literature dealing with issues of cultural musicology. You will need to demonstrate that you can interpret and contextualize a variety of texts. In particular, we expose you to a wider view of music other than Western art music, including those related to African and Afro-diasporic music. At the same time we look at the practical side of carrying out research, including research methods such as fieldwork, ethnography, interviews, transcription, participant observation, and so on