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

159created, performed, and consumed, as well as its relationship to the other art forms. The focus ofcourse content may vary from year to year.Prerequisite: MUSI2071.Assessment: 100% coursework.MUSI2073.Topics in Western music history IIIThe course examines selected topics in musical practices, works, and aesthetic ideas representative ofthe era before 1750. Various musical styles as well as conceptual ideas behind the musical practicesare examined. The course emphasizes the socio-cultural context in which the music was created,performed, and consumed, as well as its relationship to the other art forms. The focus of coursecontent may vary from year to year.Prerequisite: MUSI2071.Assessment: 100% coursework.MUSI2074.Introduction to contrapuntal styles and techniquesThis course offers a broad overview of contrapuntal styles and techniques from the 16th century to thefirst half of the 20th century. Investigation of various contrapuntal skills are made through analyticand written exercises, with emphasis on writing for keyboard, voices, or instrumental combinationsthat can be performed in class. The course is offered in alternate years with MUSI3030 Tonalcounterpoint.Prerequisite: MUSI2070.Assessment: 100% coursework.MUSI2076. Instrumentation and orchestration 1This course provides students with a comprehensive knowledge of the range, timbre, andcharacteristics of string and woodwind instruments and the techniques of combining these instrumentswhen writing for small orchestral forces. Timbral contrast, mixing, balance, doubling, and someaspects of psycho-acoustics will also be studied. The teaching materials will be derived fromexamples of classical and contemporary music, as well as film scores.Assessment: 100% coursework.MUSI2077.Music and culture: an overseas field tripThis course focuses on the study of music and its cultural context during an overseas field trip.Students may study performance in a traditional setting or conduct an ethnographical study. Studentswill be required to produce a field-trip report after their return.Assessment: 100% coursework.MUSI2078.All about dance: from popular culture to experimental arts in contemporarycyberspaceThis course examines the significance of the dancing body in the contemporary cyberspace, with afocus on forms such as music video, fan video, commercial, experimental performance, live recording,etc. It aims to provide students with a critical perspective on the complex role that the body has playedin the shaping of contemporary mediascape, and to highlight its potential in contesting social, cultural,political, commercial, and aesthetical assumptions. The course is in two parts: the first focuses on