F4D Bachelor of Music (Honours) Course Guide
Duration
The Bachelor of Music (Honours) is a one-year full time course of intense study.
Prerequisites for Entry
To gain entry to the BMus(Hons) students need to have completed a Bachelor of Music, achieving a credit in the major study area in the final year of BMus study.
Areas of Study
Students may choose to study in one of the following disciplines:
Performance
Composition
Musicology
Music Theory
Course Structure:
Performance and composition students undertake a year (100%) of specialised study in music performance or music composition including some coursework. Performance students may elect a year of study comprised of either an integrated research project, consisting of performances and a linked written exegesis, or a series of performances along with an independent practical or written music project (undertaken as a Complementary study). Composition students must present a folio of compositions and an exegesis or an independent written or practical project (undertaken as a Complementary study).
Musicology and music theory students complete a programme of coursework and write a thesis of approximately 15,000 words.
All music performance and music composition students who elect to complete the exegesis and all musicology and music theory students are required to attend the music research methodology class in semester 1. All students must attend and give a presentation in the Honours Seminar Series in semester 2.
Schedule
Performance stream |
Semester 2 |
FCM41x Major Study 4A (25%) |
Elective |
Elective |
FCM42x Major Study 4B (25%) |
FCZ421*
Or
FCB415** |
Elective |
Honours Seminar |
Composition stream |
Semester 2 |
FCM414 Composition 4A (25%) |
Elective |
Elective |
FCM424 Composition 4B (25%) |
FCZ421*
Or
FCB415** |
Elective |
Honours Seminar |
Musicology/Music Theory Stream |
Semester 2 |
FCZ410 Thesis A (25%) |
FCA445 Music Research Method-ology |
Elective |
FCZ420 Thesis B (25%) |
Elective |
Elective |
Honours Seminar |
* Students enrolling in FCZ421 Exegesis are required to take FCA445 Music Research Methodology as a semester 1 elective
** Complementary study unit
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Electives may be chosen from the following;
FCA408/409/436/437 Orchestral Studies 1/2/3/4
FCH412 Music Before 1600
FCT420 Post-Tonal Theory and Analysis
FCB415 Complementary Study
FCA441 Topics in Music Theory
FCA442 Topics in Music History
FCA429 Historical Performance Practice
FCA445 Music Research Methodology
FCA407 Chamber Music 1
FCA607 Chamber Music 2
FCA424 Music Publishing
FCZ421 Exegesis
For further advice regarding the Bachelor of Music (Honours)students
should contact Dr Anne-Marie
Forbes
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