COURSE: BACHELORS IN MUSICOLOGY (BMUS)

The degree is aimed at students who have already mastered basic music theory and have reached a standard in practical music equivalent to matric level. Before graduating, students must complete 30 modules and obtain a licentiate in practical music at a level equivalent to Unisa’s licentiates in music. Students wishing to pursue a career in teaching music can receive a special teaching endorsement with their degree if they obtain a teaching licentiate or pass a Unisa teaching test.

Type: undergraduate degree

Duration: 3 years part time

Compulsory Subjects

First year subjects:

• Exploring new worlds: musical literacy for today


• Music in society


• Basic principles of harmony


• Basic principles of structural analysis in music


• Introducing music studies


• A survey of Western music


• Introduction to music bibliography


• Developing information skills for lifelong learning

Second year subjects:

• Counterpoint; two-part invention; Bach inventions; fugue


• Secondary dominants and leading-tone chords; variation technique


• Sonata and rondo forms


• Chromatic harmony


• Music and patronage in the late Renaissance and Baroque


• Music in Vienna from the late 18th century


• All that jazz


• Musical entrepreneurship


• Music in religion

Third year subjects:

• Compositional resources of 19th-century music


• Compositional resources of 20th-century tonal music


• Compositional resources of serialism


• Introduction to performing practice


• Opera


• Music and gender


• Music in South Africa


• The sociology of music

Careers: music teacher, professional musician, music development official, composer, music producer.

Source: www.unisa.ac.za​