San Francisco State University
Department of Music
Music 700
Introduction to Graduate Study
Fall 2002
San
Francisco State University
Department
of Music
Music
700
Introduction
to Graduate Study
Fall
2002
Faculty: Dr. Laura Prichard, H 510.336.0336, Cell 510.469-6876, laura@prichard.net
Course meets: Mondays, 7:15 - 9:45pm, SFSU Creative Arts Building, Room 147
Description: A seminar designed as an introduction to music bibliography and basic research methodology. Pre- or corequisite to other graduate seminars. Priority given to music majors. This course is also helpful to graduate students in related arts, literature, and history. Required for graduate students in Music. 3 units.
Grading & Assignments:
Required Texts: Writing About Music
Supplemental Texts: on reserve in SFSU Library
Schedule:
9/9 Introduction to Course [CA147]
9/16 Introduction to Research Methods & History of Musicology [CA147]
9/23 Primary Sources of Biography & Reception History: "Amadeus as Case Study"[CA147]
9/30 Library Tour & Catalog Demonstration [Library]
10/7 History of Western Music: Overview of Periods & Styles [CA147]
10/14 Guest Lecturer on Performance Practice
10/21 No Monday
night class
10/28 Original & secondary sources as performance material. [CA147]
11/4 Reception History & Musician (Auto-)Biography
11/11 Veteran's
Day Holiday for this class (note: this is not an all-campus holiday,
so you may have other classes...)
11/18 Guest Lecturer on Romantic Music [CA147]
11/25 History of Ethnomusicology & Æsthetics [CA147]
12/2 Thanksgiving
Holiday for this class (note: this is not an all-campus holiday, so
you may have other classes...)
12/9 Popular Music & Dance Resources [CA147]
12/16 Final
Objectives and methods:
This course is intended to prepare you to carry out the research and writing that you will need to do as a music teacher, performer, and/or scholar. It will focus on research and writing within the sphere of western art or "classical" music, with a particular focus on the history and performance practices of this music since 1600.
Among our specific goals will be:
We will not be primarily concerned with music performance or education, music theory, popular and non-Western music, or sound recordings. After completing the course, however, you will be prepared to carry out your own investigations in these and many other areas.
Course requirements
This is an intensive course: a full semester's worth of work must be covered within just thirteen class meetings. For this reason, attendance is mandatory and more than one unexcused absence will result in an automatic reduction of grade.
Because this is a graduate course, students are expected to come to class fully prepared, having done all reading and writing assignments and ready to participate in class discussion. We are entered here into a radical social contract, and I pledge to uphold my end. Please respect our commitment to each other. Class participation will constitute 25% of the final grade.
Major assignments will comprise both aural and written components: typically, students will be asked to give a ten-minute presentation to the class and to turn in a written version of their presentation. In the case of the "Journal Comparison" a brief outline will suffice, but students will also prepare several more formal pieces of writing, including a two research paper at least 10 pages in length, and an annotated bibliography, due on the final exam date. The is in lieu of an in-class final examination and will be worth 20% of the final grade; the three other assignments will total 55% of the grade.
Seminar format
Much of this course will be taught in a seminar setting, method courtesy of Socrates. You will not be lectured at, unless the topic is specifically marked "lecture." Rather we will get to practice sharing information and insights, based on individual and common research and topics. The general structure of the course will find us proceeding from developing research techniques and methods, to identifying problems of and perspectives in music history, to applying methods to historical problems of our own devising and interest.
Collaboration
Because you will all be working on similar assignments in the same places, you are encouraged to help one another locate and use items in the library or online. You are also encouraged to share advice with one another about how to use resources and how to evaluate them. However, all class presentations and written work must be strictly your own. Any sharing of written work or helping one another with the actual writing or preparation of assignments is strictly forbidden and will be considered a breach of academic regulations.
Library Materials
In addition, please be considerate of your fellow students and other library users. When you finish using an item, carefully return it to its proper place on the shelf, double-checking the call number. If you are not familiar with library call numbers, please do not reshelvee the item, and instead place it on a reshelving cart. Please do not leave items out on desks or in carrels, and if you must carry them out of their immediate area (for instance, to use the photocopiers), bring them back where they belong; otherwise it may be several days before the library staff reshelves them!
