Course content

This class is centrally focused on traditional film music, but it additionally includes considerations of related practices that employ both music and moving-image media. The course is partly organized as an historical review and partly as a thematic introduction to the strategies and practices behind the uses of music in film. At the same time, these subjects will be developed with additional attention to broader perspectives on related image-based media that have employed music in significant ways. The different methodological approaches to these subjects are reflected both in the lectures and seminars, and in the broad-based curriculum of the course.

Learning outcome

Knowledge:

An examinee who successfully completes MUSV1102 will have

• Both an historical- and thematic-based knowledge of music in film and other visual forms of expression in which music plays a significant role.
• Have knowledge of key issues in the relationship between music and moving images.

Skills:

An examinee with a completed qualification in MUSV1102

• Can apply their analytical and interpretive knowledge in relation to music's function and position in motion pictures.
• Can apply their analytical and interpretive knowledge to clearly articulate the role of music in moving-image media
• Can articulate their academic knowledge of the course subject in a convincing way
• Can formulate their own reflections on the basis of their acquired knowledge

General competence:

An examinee with a completed qualification in MUSV1102

• has a conscious awareness of the interaction between music and image

Learning methods and activities

Lectures and seminars. Two lecture-based assignments must be approved in order to be able to take the final exam.

Compulsory assignments

• Lecture-based assignments

Credit reductions