Undergraduate Music Modules
Music as part of your degree
There are eight Music Modules available to students at the University, which are taken as part of their degree. They are offered by the School of Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studies. They can be taken as part of any degree in any faculty or discipline with the agreement of Academic Advisers of Study. Enrolment for these modules takes place during the first week of each semester.
The modules offered are as follows:
- MU1003: Understanding Music (first semester)
- MU1004: Making Music (second semester)
- MU1005: Reading Opera: Texts, libretti and music from Mozart to Britten (second semester)
- MU1901: Understanding Music (second semester) (Evening Degree Programme)
- MU2001: Advanced Performance (year-long module)
- MU2002: Scottish Music (second semester)
- MU2004: Electronic Music (first semester)
- MU2003: Bagpipes: History, Repertoire and Performance (first and second semester)
Further information can be found here:
Music Department Handbook 2011 (PDF, 392 KB)
Piping Handbook 2011 Semester 1 (PDF, 183 KB)
Electronic Music Module Handbook 2011 (PDF, 206 KB)
MU2001 Module Handbook - 2011 (PDF, 181 KB)
Course Booklet MU1003 2011 (PDF, 181 KB)
For further information about these modules, please consult the Course Catalogue, page 19.6, by downloading Phil, Anth & Film Studies 10-11- 1000/2000 Level - October (PDF, 223 KB). If you have any queries about them, please email the module co-ordinator.
Suggested Summer Reading for the Music Modules
MU1003 – Understanding Music
Burkholder, Grout and Palisca: A History of Western Music, 7th Edition: New York, London, Norton, 2006
This is the core text for the history strand of the course. It is a substantial work – during the summer, focus on the chapters which deal with instrumental music and try to get an feel for the chronology of music history. You are not expected to have read it all in detail before the start of the course!
MU2004 – Electronic Music
Manning, Peter, Electronic and Computer Music: OUP, 2004
MU1004 – Making Music
Rink, John (ed.): Musical Performance: A Guide to Understanding, CUP 2002
MU1005 – Reading Opera
Grove Online: ‘Opera (i) (Howard Mayer Brown et al.)
MU2002 – Scottish Music
Johnson, David, Music and Society in Lowland Scotland in the Eighteenth Century: Mercat, 2003
MU2003 – Bagpipes: History, Repertoire and Performance
Cheape, Hugh, Bagpipes: A National Collection of a National Treasure: National Museums Of Scotland, Pap/Cdr edition 2008
Staff
- Michael Downes MA MPhil DPhil (Director of Music)
- Gillian Craig MA LRAM
- Jonathan Kemp BSc PhD LLCM(TD) MIOA
- George McPhee MBE BMus DUniv FRCO FSRCM
- Sarah Sneddon MA PhD LTCL DipABRSM (Director of Teaching)
- Tom Wilkinson BA FRCO
- Oliver Jackson-Hutt MA (Hons)
- James Lancelot MA MusB FRCO (CHM) ARCM HonFGCM (External Examiner)
Lectures and seminars are also given by specialists in various fields.