MUS101 MUSIC. This sample unit outline is provided by CHC for prospective and current students to assist with unit selection.

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1 MUS101 MUSIC This sample unit outline is provided by CHC for prospective and current students to assist with unit selection. Elements of this outline which may change with subsequent offerings of the unit include Content, Required Texts, Recommended Readings and details of the Assessment Tasks. Students who are currently enrolled in this unit should obtain the outline for the relevant semester from the unit lecturer.

2 Unit code Unit name Associated higher education awards Duration Level Unit Coordinator MUS101 Music Diploma of Liberal Arts: Foundations of Learning Diploma of Liberal Arts: Foundations of Wisdom Bachelor of Arts in the Liberal Arts One semester Introductory To be advised Core/Elective Core Weighting Unit credit points: 10 credit points Student workload Delivery mode Pre-requisites/ Co-requisites/ Restrictions Rationale Total course credit points: Diploma of Liberal Arts: Foundations of Learning Diploma of Liberal Arts: Foundations of Wisdom Bachelor of Arts in the Liberal Arts Face-to-face on-site Timetabled hours 39 Personal study hours 111 Total workload hours credit points 80 credit points 240 credit points Students requiring additional English language support are expected to undertake an additional one hour per week. In order to be considered for a passing grade, students must attend at least 80% of class sessions. Face-to-face on-site Nil In the fifth century BC, Philolaus wrote, Nature in the cosmos is harmoniously composed of the limited and the unlimited, both the entire cosmos and everything in it. This summarises the understanding of the liberal art of music that was held for hundreds of years i.e. that music expresses the underlying principles that govern the harmonious composition of all reality. In other words, the cosmos is alive with music, a notion that led to the phrase the music of the spheres. Music plays an essential role in the quadrivium and is crucial for helping students to achieve a primary goal of a liberal arts education i.e. to make sense of the bigger picture of the world. When music is studied alongside astronomy, for example, the interplay between theoretical science and empirical science can offer valuable lessons in how to think. Furthermore, the power of music to interpret human experience and shape human emotion can help students to understand the human condition. There is a reason that, throughout the Bible, God uses music to call people to worship as well as to send them to war, to soothe ragged emotions and to ignite spiritual passion, to celebrate victories and to mourn losses. MUS101 Music Page 2 of 6 Author: Millis Institute

3 Prescribed text(s) Recommended readings This unit aims to develop within students an understanding of music through attentive listening, close study of musical theory and analysis of musical works. Students consider basic questions such as What is music? and What sounds good and why? and they explore how influential figures have answered such questions throughout Western history. They not only study basic elements of music like notation, pitch, rhythm, melody, counterpoint, harmony, and polyphony, but also listen to and analyse works from great composers including, Bach, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Liszt, Wagner, Debussy, Schoenberg, Gershwin, and Shostakovich. Furthermore, students explore the relationship between music and culture, music and faith, and music and epistemology in different historical periods of Western civilisation. Emphasis is placed on helping students to perceive the beauty of order and the order of beauty by pondering the mysteries of proportion in creation and human life. Given that students understanding of music is enhanced through direct participation, this unit provides the opportunity to engage in musical expression in a variety of ways, including performance. Burkholder, P, Palisca C & Grout, D 2014, A History of Western Music, 8 th edn, WW Norton, New York, NY. Bolcavac, E 2006, 150 Rounds, Clayfield School of Music, Brisbane, AUS. Atlas, A 1998, Renaissance Music, WW Norton, New York, NY. Balthasar, H U 2009, The Glory of the Lord: A Theological Aesthetics, Vol. 1, ed. J Riches, T&T Clark, Edinburgh. Begbie, J & Heaney, M L 2012, Music as Theology: What Music Says about the Word, Pickwick, Eugene, OR. Burkholder, P & Palisca, C 2010, Norton Anthology of Western Music, 6 th edn, WW Norton, New York, NY. Burkholder, P & Palisca, C 2014, Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music, 7 th edn, WW Norton, New York, NY. Downs, P G 1992, Classical Music: The Era of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, WW Norton, New York, NY. Elmers, E 2011, Beauty Unframed, BorderStone, Memphis, TN. Herbert, T 2009, Music in Words: A Guide to Researching and Writing About Music, Oxford University, Oxford, UK. James, J 1995, The Music of the Spheres: Music, Science, and the Natural Order of the Universe, Copernicus, New York, NY. Mogan, R P 1991, Twentieth-Century Music. WW Norton, NY. Plato 2000, Timaeus, trans. D Zeyl, Hackett, Indianapolis, IN. Schulenberg 2001, Music of the Baroque, Oxford University, New York, NY. Taruskin, R 2005, The Oxford History of Western Music. 5 vols., Oxford University, New York, NY. Weiss, P & Taruskin, R, (eds.) 1984, Music in the Western World: A History in Documents, New York, NY. In addition to the resources above, students should have access to a Bible, preferably a modern translation such as The Holy Bible: New King James Version (NKJV). This translation and many others may be accessed free on-line at The Bible app from LifeChurch.tv is also available free for smart phones and tablet devices. MUS101 Music Page 3 of 6 Author: Millis Institute

4 A selection of sound recordings Josquin des Prez, Ave Maria Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Pappa Marcellus Mass Giovanni Gabrielli s Sacred Music Claudio Monteverdi Madrigals, L incoronazione di Poppea Arcangelo Corelli, Concerto Opus 6 No. 8 Christmas Concerto Antonio Vivaldi, Concerto op 8/5, La tempesta di mare Jean- Baptiste Lully, Armide, Act II, scene 5 Heinrich Schutz, Psalmen Davids Henry Purcell, Dido and Aeneas Gibbons, The Crye of London Johann Sebastian Bach, Cantata BWV61, Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, Mass in B minor BWV232 George Frideric Handel, Messiah, Giulio Cesare Act I, scene I. Joseph Haydn Symphony No 94 The Surprise Symphony, Symphony No 45 The Farewell Sympony Christoph Gluck, Orfeo ed Euridice Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, The Marriage of Figaro, Requiem in D minor, Symphony No 40 in G minor, K 550. Ludwig Beethoven, Ninth Symphony, Moonlight Sonata Robert Schumann, Dichterliebe, Opus 48 Franz Liszt, Dante Sonata, Piano Sonata in B minor S 178 Richard Wagner, Trsitan and Isolde Guiseppe Verdi, Otello Johannes Brahms, Symphony No 4 in E minor, Op 98 Modest Mussorgsky, Ma Vlast Claude Debussy, Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun Richard Strauss, Salome Arnold Schoenberg, Pierrot Lunaire Igor Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring George Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue, An American in Paris Maurice Ravel, Bolero Bella Bartok, String Quartet No 5 Dmitri Shostakovich, Symphony No 5 Olivier Messiaen, Quartet for the end of time Benjamin Britten, Peter Grimes, A Midsummer Night s Dream John Cage, Sonata and Interludes Pierre Boulez, le marteau sans amitre Karlheinz Stockhausen, Gesnag der junglinge Terry Riley, In C Luciano Berio, Sinfonia Phillip Glass, Einstien on the beach MUS101 Music Page 4 of 6 Author: Millis Institute

5 Specialist resources requirements Content Stephen Reich, Music for eighteen musicians Laurie Anderson, O Superman Gyorgy Ligeti, Etudes for Piano, Book 1 Sofia Gubaidulina, Offertorium Concerto for Vioin and Orchestra Michael Nyman, Drowning by Numbers Kaija Saariaho, Du Cristal Elena Kats-Cherin, Clocks for 20 musicians and tape Osvaldo Golijov, Ayre Adolf Green and Betty Comden, Singin in the Rain Andrew Lloyd Webber, Phantom of the Opera - Music of the Night Marketa Irglova and Glen Hasard, Once - Falling Slowly A selection of jazz CD player Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music CD set Earphones to use with computers in CHC Library Keyboard 1. The Value of Music The Arts in theological perspective 2. Exploring the Beginnings of Western Music plainsong and chant 3. Exploring Instrumental Music Early music (Medieval to early Baroque) 4. Exploring Instrumental Music Structure in Sound 5. Exploring instrumental music Symphonic Sound 6. Exploring the Stage The Oratorio and Opera 7. Exploring the Stage Musical Theatre 8. Exploring Vocal Music the Art of Song 9. Exploring Jazz Spirituals to Swing 10. Exploring Popular Music Beatles to Beyonce 11. Exploring Music as Worship Then and now 12. Exploring New Music Discerning the order 13. Discerning the Value of Music in Transforming One s World The weekly tutorials will explore musical theory through practice and the elements of music including notation, pitch, rhythm, melody, counterpoint, harmony, and polyphony. MUS101 Music Page 5 of 6 Author: Millis Institute

6 Learning outcomes Assessment tasks Unit Summary On completion of this unit, students will have: 1. An appreciation of the importance and place of music within creation and its impact in reflecting, shaping, responding to and interpreting the history of our western world; 2. Developed informed and intelligent ways of listening to and thinking about music; 3. Engaged with a diverse range of musical repertoire and traditions through the study of set works; 4. Understood how a variety of musical styles relate to their social, cultural, political, economic, and artistic context; 5. Developed aural skills to support participation in music making. 6. An informed understanding of the principles of critical thinking and academic writing about music; 7. A deepened awareness of God s interaction with humanity through music and humanity s search for truth and meaning as reflected through the genre; and 8. Communicated at an appropriate tertiary standard with special attention to correct grammar, punctuation, spelling, vocabulary, usage, sentence structure, logical relations, style, referencing and presentation. Task 1: Musical reflections Weighting: 30% Learning Outcomes: 1-4, 7, 8 Assessed: Weeks 3-12 Task 2: Research Essay Weighting: 30% 10 x 300 words (6 to be graded) 1,500 words Learning Outcomes: 1-4, 6-8 Assessed: Week 10 Task 3: Performance Learning Outcomes: 2, 5 Weighting: 10% 10 minutes Assessed: Week 12 Task 4: Examination Viva Voce Weighting: 30% Learning Outcomes: minutes Assessed: Week 14 Through a holistic approach to the exploration of Western music students are introduced not only to the major composers and representative musical works, but also to general issues of the day. With this understanding they will discover how the issues of each time impacted the music and how music impacted the issues; where God can be found in music; how music shaped thinking and society and how it has interpreted the history of Western civilization. MUS101 Music Page 6 of 6 Author: Millis Institute