Music as Communication

Module code: MS3005

This module encourages you to question ideas around music, musicality, sound and meaning by examining how music functions within culture as a form of communication. It seeks to connect how we think about music as an industry, to music as art and (arguably) language.

Topics covered

• What is music?
• Music and semiotics
• Film scores
• Music and advertising
• Analysing song lyrics
• Music as therapy
• Music and psychology
• Music cultures
• Constructing musical meaning (composition)
• Music histories
• Music and genre