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Cursus: MCRMV16001
MCRMV16001
Current Musicology
Cursus informatie
CursuscodeMCRMV16001
Studiepunten (EC)5
Cursusdoelen
In a Research Seminar instructors train students to conduct independent research into aspects of a given theme. Students study one or more aspects related to the theme of the seminar and write a paper based on their own research.
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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.
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