Universität Wien
Course Exam

160006 VO Music History IV (The Twentieth Century and Beyond) (2024S)

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 16 - Musikwissenschaft und Sprachwissenschaft

Thursday 26.09.2024 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 1 Musikwissenschaft UniCampus Hof 9, 3G-EG-09

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Examiners

Information

Examination topics

The course will cover some of the following topics:

Place and Space
Modernism
Postmodernism
Metamodernism
Canons
Work and Notation
Rhythm and Time
Harmony
Instruments
Recording and Production
The Music Industry
States and Markets
Music and the Moving Image
Gender and Sexuality
Race and Ethnicity
Audiences, Class and Consumption
Centres and Peripheries

Assessment and permitted materials

One 90-minute examination:
12 open questions – one for each lecture – sample questions supplied at the end of each lecture.
You will need to answer 9 questions.
100 points available - 80-100 = 1; 70-79 = 2; 60-69 = 3; 50-59 = 4
Auf Wunsch kann die Prüfung auch in deutscher Sprache abgelegt werden.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

The course is designed to enable students to gain a broad knowledge of the music-practices of the long twentieth century and some of the methods musicologists have been using recently to make sense of them. The examination will test student’s ability to recall and concisely explain the main points covered.

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