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