Courses

Focus on musical styles and forms from the Gregorian chant to polyphony. Medieval and mensural notation, tablatures, emergence of modern systems of notation.

Transcription and analytical techniques of African music.  Problems of notation in African music.

Individual research project pertaining to the principal area of concentration. (Under the guidance of staff).

Compositional procedures in African Music. Conventions evident in traditional African vocal and instrumental music and the different ways in which they are applied in the creative practice of traditional musicians.

New Systems of musical theory; Chord and harmonic generation and other theoretical approaches.

A review of the relationship between music, music-makers and society as exemplified in the social history of Western music from the Greek times to the present. An in-depth study of the  musical life of a society within a given period in western music...

The ethnography, instruments and musical styles of Indonesia, the Far East, the Caribbean and other areas of the Diaspora.