Module manager: Hyunah Cho
Email: h.cho@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable
Year running 2024/25
MUSS0040 Introduction to Music Studies
This module is not approved as a discovery module
This module helps you engage critically and creatively with Music as a field of academic study in Higher Education. It focuses on developing skills in critical reading and writing, responding to live performances, and music analysis (including staff notation), while also introducing you to different subfields within music. This will provide you with a holistic understanding of the multifaceted nature of studying music.
This module aims to build your awareness of the practical and academic knowledge and skills necessary to study of music at degree level. It consists of two strands: (1) an introduction to ways of engaging with musical materials through listening, analysis, reading, and writing; (2) attendance at a programme of live performance.
You will strengthen your understanding of music through delving into music literature to extract valuable insights and broaden your intellectual grasp of the subject. Alongside this, you will develop analytical tools that help you understand and articulate how music is put together and represented through staff notation.
You will also improve your skills in articulating your musical insights with confidence in both oral and written formats.
The module is taught primarily via seminars which introduce concepts and skills relevant to the study of music and encourage you to apply them in different musical contexts, whether through discursive writing or analysis. Attendance at weekly concerts will develop your skills in listening and responding to live music.
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject:
1. Discuss music in its historical and global contexts.
2. Engage with scholarship in music studies.
3. Apply basic music notational, theoretical and terminological conventions to describe music.
Skills learning outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following skills learning outcomes:
4. Present work in ways that are organised and relevant.
5. Access and adapt digital tools to manage your own learning and development.
6. Make reasoned judgements based on information gathered from sources.
Details of the syllabus will be provided on the Minerva organisation (or equivalent) for the module
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Supervision | 2 | 0.3 | 0.5 |
| Concert | 10 | 1 | 10 |
| Lectures | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| seminars | 10 | 1.5 | 15 |
| Private study hours | 173.5 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 26.5 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 200 | ||
Students will receive feedback during seminars through in-class discussion and through comments on worksheets and other material. There will also be two short feedback sessions on written work.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Assignment | Submission of 3 short written pieces | 50 |
| Online Assessment | OTLA Theory examination | 50 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
There is no reading list for this module
Last updated: 3/6/2024
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