72 School of Education – Open Learning Autumn/New Year Programme 2012/’13
Jazz Through the Ages
Journeys into Czech Music
OLE1701
OLE1700
Clare Wilson, BA, MA
Clare Wilson, BA, MA
Fee £33.00 (concession rate £21.00)
Fee £33.00 (concession rate £21.00)
New Year 2013
Autumn 2012
10 weekly sessions on Wednesdays 2.00 pm to 3.00 pm, starting 16 January
10 weekly sessions on Wednesdays 2.00 pm to 3.00 pm, starting 26 September
One of the most iconic and revolutionary styles of our time, jazz is a melting pot of music, culture and expression. This vibrant fusion, spanning from plantations of New Orleans to the dance halls of Chicago and beyond is much more than just fun to listen to. This course details the journey which Jazz has taken from its humble beginnings around the turn of the twentieth century to the modern day. Discover different styles of playing, popular instruments and how they are used within jazz music, and some key personalities throughout each evolving era in the Jazz Age. There is much more to explore, so come along and we’ll Lindyhop back to the Jazz Age! Recommended Textbook: A New History of Jazz, A Shipton (Continuum International Publishing).
The Czech lands offer so much more than beautiful landscapes! Let composers including Antonín Dvorák, Leoš Janácek, and Bedrich Smetana give you a musical tour of Bohemia and Moravia. Discover this land through the composers who helped to shape its music. Má Vlast gives us a flavour of the nationalistic pride Smetana felt for the history and legends of his homeland, while in Dvorák’s Slavonic Dances we have a flavour of traditional folk music. Learn about these and so much more in this course. Why not time travel to the romantic era, but turn eastwards to uncover the beauty of Czech Music! Recommended Textbook: Essays on Czech Music, Z E Fischmann (Columbia University Press).
Masterpieces of Music: A Further Selection OLE1615 Alec Macdonald, BMus Fee £33.00 (concession rate £21.00) Autumn 2012 10 weekly sessions on Fridays 11.00 am to 12.00 noon, starting 28 September In this follow-up course to the one held in January 2012, we will be looking at some more works from the classical music repertoire that the lecturer considers deserve the accolade of Masterpiece. With the help of copious musical illustrations from a variety of recordings of the works under review, he will attempt to show their significance in the history of music. No technical musical knowledge is required. Full details of the music to be discussed will be available nearer the time, but it is planned to begin with Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, and to end, appropriate to Advent, with a modern classic, James MacMillan’s percussion concerto, Veni, Veni, Emmanuel. 5 CATS Points (Level 1)
5 CATS Points (Level 1)
5 CATS Points (Level 1)
You can enrol early online for all courses by visiting our website www.qub.ac.uk/edu/ol