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Cursus: MCRMV16001
MCRMV16001
Current Musicology
Cursus informatie
CursuscodeMCRMV16001
Studiepunten (EC)5
Cursusdoelen
1. The student is acquainted with important current trends within the broad field of music studies and the humanities at large.
2. The student is able to succinctly, clearly, and carefully analyse, summarize, and discuss the main ideas as formulated in assigned academic texts.
3. The student is able to professionally communicate insights, reflections, and questions about given topics in oral presentations and discussions as well as academic writing.
4. The student is able to compile a bibliography on a topic of his or her own choice, along prevailing international standards in the English language, and to critically assess the aims and arguments found therein in a succinct and efficient manner.
Inhoud
This seminar critically surveys the current state of the field. Students focus on epistemological and heuristic problems facing musicologists today and on the methods available to address them.
Over the last decades, the complexity of ways in which music has existed and exists in a globalizing world resulted in significant realignments within musicological research. Traditional paradigms of  musicology such as Eurocentric history, philology, source studies, or music analysis based on autonomy aesthetics have lost their dominance; musicologists now routinely integrate methods and techniques introduced from other disciplines (e.g., literary and cultural studies, anthropology, or art history) into their work, and explore music as a performative and media-based art within a broad range of multidisciplinary and transcultural contexts. Moreover, the impact of (digital) technology and of science and scientific methodologies on the field is on the rise, transforming research, and therefore will receive due attention. Using examples from a variety of historical periods, geographical regions, and musicological subject areas, this course provides an overview of the state of play in musicological research today, alongside  critical reflection on the discipline of musicology within a continually changing environment.

Career orientation:
Training in written and oral presentation of research.

This course is for students in the MA Applied Musicology and RMA Musicology. The entrance requirements for Exchange Students will be checked by International Office and the Programme coordinator. You do not have to contact the Programme coordinator by yourself.
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