Advanced Creative Projects in Musical Cultures - AHM3422

Assessment 1: Written plan

Initial plan and resource list for the Research Project submitted for tutor feedback and approval.

Project proposal

Assessment 1: Portfolio

Structured, analytical, reflective, and/or theoretical tasks linked to classroom content, and designed to consolidate teaching and build confidence for independent further study.

Portfolio of research-based tasks

Assessment 2: Project Work

A creatively-focused research-based project relating to the content of the topic, devised by the student with tutor guidance and support. The project may take the form of a performance, recording, composition, illustrated seminar presentation, or any other appropriate creative format as agreed. Equivalent to 3000 words, which may include a short  contextual report of up to 400 words.

Research project

Creative Projects in Musical Cultures

AIM2422 - Creative Projects in Musical Cultures

As an advanced and increasingly independent musical researcher and creative practitioner, you will undertake an in-depth exploration of a particular area of music by choosing one specialist topic from a range on offer. Using musicological study to underpin and inspire artistic activity, you will engage with current issues in practice research, discover new repertoire and approaches to creativity, and reflect on research as an element of your own creative practice.

School of Arts and Humanities

Indicative references for validation. My Reading will contain general musicology resources including those below. Option-specific resources will also be provided through My Reading.
Beard, D., &amp; Gloag, K. (2016) Musicology: The Key Concepts. Routledge.
Cheng, W. (2016). Just Vibrations: The Purpose Of Sounding Good. University Of Michigan Press.
Cook, N., &amp; Everist, M. (1999). Rethinking Music. Oxford University Press.
Fabian, D. (2017). A Musicology Of Performance.
Gollin, E., &amp; Rehding, A. (2011). The Oxford Handbook Of Neo-Riemannian Music Theories. Oxford University Press.
Greene, L., &amp; Kulezic-Wilson, D. (2016). The Palgrave Handbook of Sound Design and Music in Screen Media: Integrated Soundtracks. Palgrave.
Hooper, G. (2016). The Discourse Of Musicology. Routledge.
Moore, A. F. (2016). Song Means: Analysing And Interpreting Recorded Popular Song. Routledge.
Morrison, M. D. (2019). Race, Blacksound, and the (Re)making of Musicological Discourse. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 72(3), 781-823. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2019.72.3.781">https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2019.72.3.781</a>.
Peraino, J. (2006). Listening to the Sirens: Musical Technologies of Queer Identity from Homer to Hedwig. University of California Press.
Scott, D. B. (2016). (Ed.) The Ashgate Research Companion To Popular Musicology. Ashgate.
Scotto, C., Smith, K. M., &amp; Brackett, J. L. (2019). The Routledge Companion To Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches. Routledge.
Williams, A. (2001). Constructing Musicology. Ashgate.
Zagorski-Thomas, S. (2014). The Musicology Of Record Production. Cambridge University Press.

Music

AHM3422 - Advanced Creative Projects in Musical Cultures

Advanced Creative Projects in Musical Cultures

Produce sophisticated analyses of musical or music-related texts using appropriate methodologies.

Reflect upon and critically evaluate arguments and ideas at the forefront of critical debates about music and musical cultures in a given topic or area.

Demonstrate a critical understanding of a variety of techniques, methodologies, and investigative approaches suitable for musical research in a given topic or area, including practice research.

Demonstrate a nuanced understanding of the ways in which musicological, creative, and cultural practices are connected in contemporary research culture.

Work independently to plan, instigate, and present an effective, organised, and imaginative creative research project that engages with a range of sources and evidence (PDP).

Demonstrate detailed knowledge of a range of key issues, repertoires, and personnel relevant to the study of music and musical cultures in a given topic or area.