Postgraduate Course: Traditional Music - The Historical Dimension (SCET11016)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | The course falls into two sections. The first focuses on Scotland's "national" instruments and their place in Scotland's musical life up to the turn of the twentieth century, and the second on major composers and collections of traditional music, highlighting selected pieces of repertoire. The place of traditional music in society is emphasised. Students will be assigned one piece of key reading each week, and a study visit will take place as part of the course. Students will be introduced to the discipline of ethnomusicology as a means of studying traditional music. European parallels will be drawn as appropriate. |
| Course description |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- demonstrate knowledge of some the major instruments used for traditional music in Scotland in a historical context and of their place in society;
- demonstrate a solid grasp of some of the major collectors and composers of Scottish traditional music up to the turn of the twentieth century;
- demonstrate familiarity with a range of key texts which deal with the subject of traditional music;
- show awareness of some of the issues connected to traditional music in a historical context, e.g. orality and literacy, transmission, patronage;
- show competence in transferable skills, e.g. critical evaluation of source material, independent reading, coherent and clearly structured writing, oral presentation, group discussion, time management.
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Additional Information
| Course URL |
http://www.celtscot.ed.ac.uk/ |
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Special Arrangements |
Jointly taught with undergraduate students (SCET10023)
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| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Ms Lucy MacRae
Tel: (0131 6)50 3057
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Course secretary | Miss Charlotte McLean
Tel: (0131 6)50 4114
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