Introducing music research

Introducing music research provides you with insights into the wide variety of possibilities for studying music at postgraduate level. In this free course you will explore diverse musical topics through four themes: inclusions and exclusions, practice, technology, and community. You will encounter music from different times, places and genres while being introduced to a range of scholarly perspectives on music.TranscriptThis OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course A890 MA Music part 1.

• 1 What is musicology?
• 1.1 Exploring Western musicology
• 2 Women in music studies
• 2.1 Women and the canon
• 2.2 Philosophical bias
• 2.3 New directions in feminist musicology
• 3 Historically informed performance
• 3.1 The authenticity debate
• 3.2 Investigating early instruments
• 4 Grime music reception in the UK
• 4.1 Wot Do U Call It?
• 4.2 This is Grime
• 4.3 Crazy Titch
• 4.4 Grime reception
• 5 Soundscapes
• 5.1 Acoustic communities
• 5.2 Soundwalks