Courses Offered in Fall 2017 (106AY 1S)

Taking a hands-on and interactive heuristic approach, we will learn, practise, and reflect on those works of our trade such as writing, editing, conferencing, and event management. Our aim is to become a compleat musicologist, ready for a wide range of careers.

Our main tasks are professional and academic writings; the skills involved are bibliographical, evaluative, and communicative. The aim is to train ourselves to be a up-to-date musician-scholar-intellectual, able to make music and make sense of music creatively and critically.

Our course is designed as a cycle of four stages:

1. REFLECTING: We'll start our intellectual journey by "musing" on who we are and what we do. These will be expressed practically in our CVs and performance portfolio (posters, bios, program lists and notes).
2. RESEARCHING: Then we'll learn the craft of thesis-writing thru evaluating and emulating selected examples.
3. REPORTING: And we'll meet our "audience" by written and oral presentations, considering the aspects of form and style.
4. REVIEWING: Finally, we'll come to full circle with reflecting and rethinking of who we are and how to become who we want to be. The journey has just begun...

On the whole, we'll be doing a lot of thinking, reading, talking and writing, in and out of the classroom. Our TAs will arrange with you to hold a weekly group tutorial hour. In addition, please don't hesitate to make an appointment with me at my office hour. Concrete "products" at the end of the semester will be a mini-conference and an anthology of selected written work.

(After the more theoretical first semester we'll be getting more practical with the different sources and resources [notational, audio-visual] in the second semester, offered as an elective course.)

A pre-seminar to the study of music from a cultural and comparative perspective.