• Total units 48 Units
  • Areas of interest Musicology, Music
  • Major code MUSS-MAJ

The Music Studies major gives students the opportunity to pursue high-level studies in music within the Bachelor of Arts. The key objectives of the major are to develop students' deep and sophisticated understanding of the cultural, historical, theoretical, and analytical situation of music across a variety of cultures and historical periods, while grounding these concepts in the development of their own musical practice. The School of Music provides Music Studies students with a unique 21st Century musical experience which includes a solid grounding in core skills, as well as the space and support to develop and discover new and exciting areas of music scholarship.

This major assumes prior knowledge of fundamentals of Western music notation and music theory (intervals, triads etc).

Learning Outcomes

  1. understand the languages, forms, materials, and techniques of a wide range of musics;
  2. recognise and reflect critically on social, cultural and ethical issues and apply local and international perspectives to practice in music;
  3. develop and evaluate musical, cultural, and artistic ideas, concepts and processes by thinking creatively, critically and reflectively, and through engaging with scholarship and research; and
  4. communicate sophisticated ideas, problems and arguments to do with music and the arts in modes suited to a range of audiences.

Other Information

This major assumes prior knowledge of  fundamentals of Western music notation and music theory (intervals, triads etc).

Relevant Degrees

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Requirements

This major requires the completion of 48 units, which must include:

A maximum of 18 units may come from the completion of 1000-level courses

A minimum of 18 units must come from the completion of 3000-level courses


30 units from completion of the following compulsory courses:

MUSI1117 Ears and Dots: Aural and Theory For The Modern World

MUSI2231 Topics in Music Analysis

MUSI3309 Digital Music: Platforms, Content and AI

MUSI3317 Music and Politics

MUSI3327 Ethnomusicology


12 units from completion of courses from the following list:

MUSI1111 Foundations of Composition

MUSI1114 Composing for Film and Video Games

MUSI1116 Pitch, Play, Perform: Introduction to Vocal and Instrumental Skills

MUSI2209 Music Recording and Production Techniques

MUSI2227 Music, Sound and the Moving Image

MUSI2232 Topics in Music Technology

MUSI2240 Music as Collaboration


6 units from completion of a course from the following list:

INDG2002 Contemporary Australian Indigenous Music Studies

MUSI2236 Music and Globalisation 

MUSI2237 Music and Wellbeing

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