Russian Music: Concert Hall to Dance Club
Undergraduate course
- ECTS credits
- 15
- Teaching semesters Spring
- Course code
- MVK230
- Number of semesters
- 1
- Teaching language
- English
- Resources
- Schedule
- Reading list
Course description
Objectives and Content
This course introduces students to a wide array of Russian musics - ranging from 19th century concert repertoire, to traditional practices, to mass-mediated popular forms - in each case relating specific pieces, genres and/or styles to important historical, political, and cultural contexts.
The approximate division of the course, regarding subject area, will be as follows:
- art music, 25%
- traditional music 25%
- popular music (broadly defined) 50%
The course should be of interest to students from a wide range of humanities and social scientific disciplines, including music, Russian language and culture, media studies, and gender studies.
Learning Outcomes
On completion of the course the student should have the following learning outcomes:
Knowledge
The student..
- has broad knowledge of representative styles and genres of Russian music from approximately the mid-19th century to the present day.
Skills
The student..
- has the skill to independently work with source material and analyze works of Russian music within specific historical and sociocultural contexts.
General competences
The student..
- has competence to contextualize broad stylistic and generic areas, as well as individual pieces, within a historical-cultural framework.
ECTS Credits
Level of Study
Semester of Instruction
Place of Instruction
Required Previous Knowledge
Recommended Previous Knowledge
Credit Reduction due to Course Overlap
Access to the Course
Teaching and learning methods
Compulsory Assignments and Attendance
- Attendance at lectures and seminars.
- All instruction is obligatory; absence of more than 20% leads to loss of right to take the exam.
All mandatory instruction and compulsory requirements must be completed and approved before the exam.
Approved obligatory activities are valid for 2 semesters after they are completed.
Forms of Assessment
Term paper of a length defined by the course leader [emneansvarlig] at the beginning of each semester. The course leader cannot set the length below 3000 words or above 5000 words
This paper will focus on a specific work or corpus of works, and must exhibit that the student has been able to:
a) formulate a valid research question
b) find appropriate academic literature to support her/his thesis
c) correctly and convincingly contextualize her/his analysis with respect to historical (including political) and/or sociocultural variables
The lectures and the assignments will be given in English. The students are encouraged to write the papers in English, but can choose to write in Norwegian, if preferred.
Grading Scale
Assessment Semester
Reading List
Approx. 800 pages as well as audiovisual examples.
The literature list will be available by 01.07. for the Autumn semester and 01.12. for the Spring semester.