(BA) (4-year-programme) - The University of Hong Kong

155the basic critical tools to examine popular music from a scholarly perspective. Lectures areaugmented with videos, film slides, and recordings.Assessment: 100% coursework.MUSI2016.Music of contemporary Hong KongThis course aims to promote an understanding of the various styles of music in contemporary HongKong, and through such a study to understand music and ourselves better. Topics to be discussed mayinclude technical analysis of selected musical works, procedures of musical production, compilationof radio programmes, recording industry, musicals, film music, high-art music, New Age music, jazz,alternative music, Chinese instrumental music, popular concerts by classical orchestras, karaoke,music on the Internet and other media, pop/serious artists, and musical promoters.Assessment: 100% coursework.MUSI2026.Fundamentals of music compositionThis course seeks to provide understanding of various musical techniques through writing music. It coverstopics in notation, instrumentation, melodic writing, harmonization, timbral control, expansion andrefinement of raw materials, and structural design. The course comprises lectures, tutorials, individualsupervision, and composer/performer workshops. Students are required to attend some concerts specifiedby the lecturer and to participate in the performance of their own works. Students are expected to submittheir composition scores (sometimes parts as well) in professional presentation (i.e., using the appropriatepaper size, photocopy formatting, binding, programme notes, performance instructions, page-turningconsiderations, good visibility, and legibility).Assessment: 100% coursework.MUSI2029.Chinese music historyThis course introduces the history of China through an examination of selective source materialincluding bells from the bronze period, the Book of Music attributed to Confucian philosophy, theearliest known musical notation of a composition from the 6th century A.D., major encyclopaediccompilations of musical sources from the Song dynasty, and Mao Zedong's Talks at the Yan'anConference on Literature and Art in 1942. The course is offered in alternate years with MUSI2010Music of China.Assessment: 100% coursework.MUSI2031.American musicThis course will examine the history, genres, styles, innovations, and cultural contexts of music inAmerica. Following an overview of its European and African roots and the development of Americanmusic up to World War I, intensive consideration will be given to jazz, rock, blues, musicals, classical,and avant-garde musics.Assessment: 100% courseworkMUSI2044.Film musicWhat does music contribute to a fiction film? When is it used? And why is it there in the first place?Directors use music with an effect in mind and it is music's force in the “here and now” of the moviegoingexperience that we will try to describe. To do so, we will study films from various cinematic