DCMS://MUS204_Sound Explorations/
Contact: Dr Mark Evans
Email: mark.evans@humn.mq.edu.au
Room: W6A 600
Phone: 9850-6780
Credit points: 3
Offered: D2 Day; Offered in second half-year
Prerequisites: MUS100 or ECHL115
This unit will address various compositional techniques and sound explorations that arose in the 20th Century. Beginning with Debussy and moving through to the latest avant garde sound works, this unit will examine key figures and movements that have shaped the evolution of contemporary music. It will also address contemporary approaches to musical hybridity. Special consideration will be paid to the development and globalisation of jazz as a modern art music