Music

This course is for beginners in music and focuses on the contents of musical notation such as notes, rests, time signatures, staff, key signatures, and temporary charts. It covers basic theory such as intervals and scales, fast words, musical symbols, notations, and classification of musical instruments. 

The course is taught in Korean; therefore, it is recommended that enrollees have the requisite Korean language proficiency (upper intermediate or higher). Exchange students majoring in music are not allowed to take the course. 

The course examines the close connection between music and science that has existed historically from Pythagoras on into modern times. The course introduces the essential physics of musical sound production and analysis in order to understand the elementary principles behind wind, string and percussion instruments and their characteristic timbre. The course examines the development of scales from fundamental principles to identify some of the subtle differences between Chinese and Western music. Contemporary music and science interactions focus on electronic music and the working principles of modern instruments such as the electric guitar. Finally the course looks at some scientific understanding of musical appreciation and the factors that make music pleasing. 

This course examines topics pertaining to the music industry and developing a career in music, including: business models, budgeting and financial planning, accounting and taxation, agents, representatives and consultants, contracts and agreements, licensing, rights and rights management, managing human resources, building and working with teams.

Musicology Workshop provides a forum for discussion of musicological work, and the opportunity to gain a broad perspective on the discipline. Many Musicology Workshop activities are built around the Conservatorium's fortnightly Musicology Colloquium Series lectures, presented by SCM staff and visiting national and international scholars speaking on a wide range of topics. Other class activities explore areas such as research and writing skills, music criticism, controversies in recent music literature, visits to local libraries or archives, and conference attendance and reporting. Students are expected occasionally to attend other musicological activities such as the Conservatorium's Alfred Hook lecture series. During classes students also have the opportunity to present and gain feedback on their own research topics.

This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop knowledge of and teaching skills related to music education approaches that have influenced current practice. Students will focus on a number of internationally recognized approaches to teaching music, including those developed by Orff and Kodaly; Comprehensive Musicianship, and the creativity movements of the 1960s and 1970s. More recent approaches reflecting multiculturalism, globalization, mediated learning, constructivism, Informal Learning and forms of enculturation and musical creativity evident in children's musical worlds will also be explored. An important focus of this course will include building confidence in performing on chord-based instruments and drums.

Students will practice in their area of practical study. Vocal and instrumental students will apply technique and stylistic awareness to an individually designed program of recital repertoire. Formative feedback in individual and group settings will be provided across the semester. The course involves participation in individual lessons, instrument/voice classes, concert class and/or assigned ensemble activities.

This course examines popular music, Indigenous music, classical music, and the music of multicultural communities in Australia, as well as themes prevalent in the work of contemporary music scholars. These include gender and identity, ownership and appropriation, reception and transmission, colonialism and Empire, globalization, modernity, representation, and music and place.

Music is a fundamental activity found in all human societies and at all periods of history. This course introduces different methods of studying music as an academic subject, and considers the many ways that music intersects with other aspects of society. The course is recommended for potential music majors and any other students interested in music.

The course covers the following topics:

• Why study music?
• Histories of music
• Music theory and analysis
• The Sociology of music
• The musical mind – music and psychology
• The new ‘musicologies’
• Decolonization of music studies
• The economics and business of music 

This course examines music focusing on its social, cultural, economical, and commercial aspects. It surveys major genres of Western classical music including opera, mass, concerto, chamber music, sonatas, as well as a variety of popular music genres such as jazz, blues, country, musical, rock, pop, folk, disco, soul, hip-hop, and trot. By analyzing different music repertoires based on their historical and social background, this course develops an understanding of music elements such as musical form, harmony, chords, scale, rhythm, and performance practice, as well as social and economic mechanism of music such as production, distribution, and consumption.

Students explore all aspects of choral and ensemble singing, from the purely technical (intonation, breathing, listening, pronunciation, vocal attacks, legato) to the subtleties of developing internal choral relationships and relationships with conductors and where appropriate, instrumentalists.