Matthew Spring's Course Material

Semester 1 Courses

MU3107 Pop Music

• 1960s Rock and Youth Culture
• 1980s – Pop Icons Go Global
• The 1990s
• 60s Britain
• America 50s
• Black genres- week 8
• Civil rights and popular music
• The Influence of Technology on Popular Music
• Introduction
• Late 60s - the dark side
• Mass Culture Theory
• Pop Music Industry
• Pop vocal
• Popular Music Introduction
• Popular Music Studies Course Document
• punk presentation
• The girl singer
• Velvet underground
• World Music 

MU3104 Advanced Research Skills

• Advanced Research Skills Course Document
• Research Paper

MU2112 Opera from Handel to Mozart

• Opera Handel to Mozart Course Document
• Seventeenth Century Review
• Handel in London
• HANDEL Orlando and Ariodante
• Beggars Opera
• Rameau and French Opera
• Gluck and Opera Reform
• Mozart Idomeneo
• Don Giovanni 1787

MU2116 World Music I

• Fieldwork project, methods and ideas
• Introduction to Ethnomusicology
• World Music Course Document
• World Music Course Document
• Fieldwork, methods and ideas. Your Project
• An Introduction to Ethnomusicology
• North American Native Traditions
• Australia and Pacific
• Africa
• Classification of Musical Instruments
• Musicality, the Musician, Social Function and Social Behavior- week3
• Session for Week 4
• Fieldwork, methods and ideas. Your Project
• Session for Week 5
• Fieldwork, methods and ideas. Your Project
• Music for India, China and Korea
• Music for India, China Japan and Korea
• North American Native Traditions
• Music of South America
• Australia and Pacific
• Islam

MU1101 Performance Studies

• Aural week 2
• Aural week 4
• Aural Week 5

Semester 2 Courses

MU2113 WORLD MUSIC II - GAMELAN STUDIES

• Outline
• Historical Development - pdf
• Historical Development Bibliography
• Week 2 Historical Development
• Week 3: Concepts of Melody
• Week 4 Wayang Bibliography
• Week 4 Wayang Kulit
• Week 6 New Music

MU2109 Survival of Tonality MU2109

• Course document
• Shostakovich string symphonies
• Shostakovich symphony 5 and quartet 5 
• Shostakovich Lady Macbeth
• Shostakovich Fifth Symphony

MU3108 Issues in Contemporary Music

• Issues in Contemporary Music
• Week 3 - Post War Departures
• Week 4 - Experimentalists
• Week 5 - Electro-Acoustic Music 1

MU1103/6 Issues in Musicology

• Week 1 - What is Musicology
• An introduction to Ethnomusicology
• Week 2 - Historical Performance Practice
• Week 3 - Performance as Discipline
• Week 6 - Introduction to Analysis

Matthew Spring 19th December 2003