MU3001 - Music in the Home

During the course, you will be given guided reading and listening each week; you will be able to track your progress through regular in-class assignments. Lectures will give you practice in listening skills, developing a facility for absorbing information delivered orally and an ability to interact with speakers. Seminars time for student presentations (individual and group work) and discussion, as well as providing an opportunity to develop study skills, including how to present your work orally and in writing. You will be given individual advice on your essays in a short tutorial, and the opportunity to receive oral feedback on your written work.

Your academic development will be supported through engagement with your peers, academic tutors, and programme leaders. Academic support is provided through seminar discussions and essay tutorials which allow specific issues to be addressed and to promote progress in academic development. The module tutor will be accessible within publicised office hours and via email. Your peers will provide you will a collaborative learning environment, and your programme leader will guide you through the requirements and expectations of your course. You will also be supported through individual engagement with the academic literature, lectures, and resources available on the eLearning Portal. Formative feedback will be on-going throughout seminar activities and through regular in-class assessment tasks.

All modules at Northumbria include a range of reading materials that students are expected to engage with. Online reading lists (provided after enrolment) give you access to your reading material for your modules. The Library works in partnership with your module tutors to ensure you have access to the material that you need.

Knowledge & Understanding:
1. You will demonstrate knowledge of a repertoire of music from different periods, the function music played in the home and its relation to how people relate their experience of making music to emotion, gender, sexuality, identity and social class.
Intellectual / Professional skills & abilities:
2. You will be able to make effective use of written and aural sources of information when undertaking your own work, making appropriate acknowledgement of them.

Personal Values Attributes (Global / Cultural awareness, Ethics, Curiosity) (PVA):

3. You will demonstrate a capability for independent learning and time management, taking responsibility for your own learning, and show an ability to work in partnership with others.
4. You will demonstrate curiosity through an open-minded engagement with unfamiliar musical sounds, concepts, repertoires and practices.
5. You will demonstrate a capacity to monitor and assess your own progress and an ability to respond positively to feedback of others.

1. Participation in weekly learning tasks (10%). These short assignments will take a variety of forms, depending on the topic, and may include short quizzes, individual or group presentations, contributions to discussion boards or wikis, or submission of pre/post reading circle notes. See MLOs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Feedback will depend on the individual assignments, and may include quiz scores, brief written feedback, oral feedback to cohort, or a combination of these.

2. SUMMATIVE: Essay 1 (45%), submitted at end of Semester 1. A 2,000-word essay that tests students’ ability to make use of what they have learned in lectures and seminars, and to undertake their own research on a topic. MLO 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

3. SUMMATIVE Essay 2 (45%), submitted at end of Semester 2. A 2,000-word essay that tests students’ ability to make use of what they have learned in lectures and seminars, and to undertake their own research on a topic. MLO 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Feedback on essays will comprise annotations to the script (electronic or hard copy) and a short report. There will also be an opportunity to go over your work with the marker in a tutorial.

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In this module, you will study music in the intimate environment of the home. Topics include everything from Tudor domestic music-making to chamber music in the 19th century and American soul. You will explore questions around how music is made, its consumption, and the way music relates to broader cultural change. We will explore the experience of life through music-making, understanding how emotions, sexuality, identity and personality are all shaped by music. You will be given guided reading and listening each week which will provide you with a framework for lectures, which will be more focused. There will be plenty of opportunities for discussion and student presentations in seminars, during which you will also develop your study skills.