Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Convenor and Lecturer
Andrew Alter
Contact via Email or PH: 0490659760
Rm 250, 10 Hadenfeld Avenue
Any time by appointment - send email
Lecturer
Denis Crowdy
Contact via Email
Hub 191, 10 Hadenfeld Ave.
Any time by appointment - send email
Lecturer
Sarah Keith
Contact via Email
10 Hadenfeld Ave.
Anytime by appointment - send email
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Credit points |
Credit points
10
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
Approaching the study of music through the broad topics of traditions, instruments, industries and technologies, this unit situates and explores music in a global context. Students investigate how musicians create, adapt and perform music in various cultural, historical and global contexts, including in Western classical and diverse modern traditions and forms. The unit will also have an emphasis on the diversity of such musical practices and traditions in various contexts. A range of themes will be covered, including ideas of improvisation/composition, instrument structure/symbolism, the popularization of traditional practices, classical/folk/popular traditions, and the music of first nation peoples. |
Information about important academic dates including deadlines for withdrawing from units are available at https://www.mq.edu.au/study/calendar-of-dates
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
Written components to each of the assignments should be submitted through the Turnitin portal for each assignment. For the Literature Review and the Essay, this means the complete assignment is submitted this way. There is a short descriptive component to the Creative Work Assignment which should also be submitted via Turnitin. Other aspects of the Creative Work Assignment may take different forms and submission/performance details will be discussed in-class.
The Faculty of Arts Policy regarding the late submission of work will be applied for all submissions in this unit. Even though there are no "time sensitive tasks" in this unit (see below), the complete faculty policy is as follows:
Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, a 5% penalty (of the total possible mark) will be applied each day a written assessment is not submitted, up until the 7th day (including weekends). After the 7th day, a mark of ‘0’ (zero) will be awarded even if the assessment is submitted. Submission time for all written assessments is set at 11.55pm. A 1-hour grace period is provided to students who experience a technical issue.
This late penalty will apply to non-timed sensitive assessment (incl essays, reports, posters, portfolios, journals, recordings etc). Late submission of time sensitive tasks (such as tests/exams, performance assessments/presentations, scheduled practical assessments/labs etc) will only be addressed by the unit convenor in a Special Consideration application. Special Consideration outcomes may result in a new question or topic.
Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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Literature Review | 25% | No | 23:55 25/08/2023 |
Essay | 40% | No | 23:55 20/10/2023 |
Creative Work | 35% | No | 23:55 03/11/2023 |
Assessment Type 1: Literature review
Indicative Time on Task 2: 25 hours
Due: 23:55 25/08/2023
Weighting: 25%
Students will prepare and submit a survey of relevant scholarly literature. Refer to iLearn for further information.
Assessment Type 1: Essay
Indicative Time on Task 2: 35 hours
Due: 23:55 20/10/2023
Weighting: 40%
Students will submit a short essay in response to a set question. The essay question will be provided on iLearn. Refer to iLearn for further information.
Assessment Type 1: Creative work
Indicative Time on Task 2: 34 hours
Due: 23:55 03/11/2023
Weighting: 35%
Students will create and submit an original creative/musical work. Details and project examples will be provided on iLearn. Refer to iLearn for further information.
1 If you need help with your assignment, please contact:
2 Indicative time-on-task is an estimate of the time required for completion of the assessment task and is subject to individual variation
It is expected that students will attend all lectures and tutorials in the unit, and attendance will be taken. In addition, students should visit the iLearn site for the unit in order to keep track of assignment details, topic descriptions, extra resources, and reading materials. Students should read the readings set for each week's topic before the lecture and tutorial.
In most cases, the lecture for this unit will be delivered face-to-face in Room 187 at 10 Hadenfeld Avenue. Lecture and tutorial times may be found on the central timetable system. There will be some occasions when guest lectures have to be delivered in an online pre-recorded format. In such cases, students will be reminded of the online format through the iLearn announcement system. For this reason students MUST organise to receive the unit iLearn announcements in a consistent way.
The recordings of all lectures (whether delivered live or pre-recorded) will be placed in the ECHO 360 online system in iLearn. However, it is expected that students enrolled internally will attend the live lecture prior to attending their tutorial for that week. Students enrolled externally will need to access the lecture recording through the ECHO system prior to attending the online tutorial.
Tutorials will normally not be recorded.
As is normal, there is a cap on student numbers for each tutorial. Students should sign up for the appropriate tutorial through e-student. Because of the nature of online delivery, learning strategies and procedures for the online tutorial will be slightly different to the in-class face-to-face tutorials. Naturally, learning topics, readings, assessment tasks and learning outcomes will remain the same for all students.
Feedback in this unit is available in multiple forms: informal feedback in lectures and tutorials; face-to-face consultations; formal general comment, rubric, and/or in-text comments attached to assignments marked in Turnitin.
Week 1 - Lecture: Introducing Indonesian Music
Week 2 - Lecture: Ways of Thinking and Talking about Music in a Global Context
Week 3 - Lecture: Musical Instruments and Global Exchange
Week 4 - Lecture: Organology in a Global Context: The Guitar as an Example
Week 5 - Introducing Indian Music
Week 6 - Traditions and Genres: Classical, Folk and Indigenous
Week 7 - Guest Lecture - Denis Crowdy
Week 8 - Introducing Latin Music
Week 9 - The World of K-Pop (The lecture this week will be recorded online)
Week 10 - Paradigms of Commodification - Selling Music around the Globe: Festivals of Music in Australia and around the Globe
Week 11 - 'World Music' and Commodification in the 'Old World' Paradigm compared with the New Global Streaming Context
Weeks 12/13: No classes - Project Work
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Students seeking more policy resources can visit Student Policies (https://students.mq.edu.au/support/study/policies). It is your one-stop-shop for the key policies you need to know about throughout your undergraduate student journey.
To find other policies relating to Teaching and Learning, visit Policy Central (https://policies.mq.edu.au) and use the search tool.
Macquarie University students have a responsibility to be familiar with the Student Code of Conduct: https://students.mq.edu.au/admin/other-resources/student-conduct
Results published on platform other than eStudent, (eg. iLearn, Coursera etc.) or released directly by your Unit Convenor, are not confirmed as they are subject to final approval by the University. Once approved, final results will be sent to your student email address and will be made available in eStudent. For more information visit ask.mq.edu.au or if you are a Global MBA student contact globalmba.support@mq.edu.au
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Unit information based on version 2023.01R of the Handbook