Popular Music Courses

Music courses can be taken as electives across a range of programs including the Bachelor of Arts. The music courses listed below are both enjoyable and informative and can add diversity to your degree program.

MUSC1700: Popular Music 1950s Onwards: From Elvis to Madonna

Discover rock music and its history through the artists, their music and culture from the early 1950s to the profound cultural and technological changes of the early 1980s that signalled the birth of MTV, compact discs, samplers and video stars. Learn secrets of the trade and talk to music experts in our tutorials and lectures. Enrol now and choose one of two repeated lectures on Thursdays. Visit the From Elvis to Madonna website at www.music.uq.edu.au/elvis for the lecture plan, tutorial times and more information about the course. No musical training is required for this course.

MUSC1010: Introduction to Music Technology

This course will enable students to gain an understanding of some of the most valuable techniques in music production and publishing using the computer as a musical tool. It will provide a practical understanding of the capabilities and limits of computer-based music technology and will provide a basic theoretical background to the nature of music and organised sound through guided practical application and experimentation with recorded and synthesised sounds.

The course will focus on those strands of music technology that overlap and complement each other. For instance, a MIDI file created for the purposes of recording can be turned into a score, ready for printing. A digital audio recording, made originally to stand in its own right, can later become just one of many tracks in a multi-track hybrid of audio and MIDI. This course covers the broader aspects of digital audio recording, editing and CD mastering, MIDI sequencing, the integration of MIDI with multi-track sound, equalisation and effects, and score printing. Programs used include Adobe Audition, Pro Tools and Sibelius

MUSC1000: Popular Music Techniques: Blues, Beatles and Beyond

Introduction to the elements of music techniques & notation with reference to popular music styles & media. Students are required to have basic music reading skills.

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