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Music Tripos, 2003: Notice

The Faculty Board of Music give notice that they have prescribed the following papers and subjects for the Music Tripos in 2003 (Statutes and Ordinances, pp. 343 and 348):

Part IA (New Regulations)

Paper 3. Historical subjects I

Nineteenth-century music

Paper 4. Historical subjects II and ethnomusicology

A. Twentieth-century definitions

B. Music in Africa: an introduction to the study of 'World Music'

Part IB (New Regulations)

Papers 6-11. Additional papers

(A) Historical topics

6. Notation: the music of Guillaume Dufay

8. Jazz

9. J. S. Bach: context and reception

10. Music and society in Handel's London

11. Music and politics in the Soviet Union

(B) Other topics

7. Introduction to Music and Science

Part II (Old Regulations)

Paper 2. Set works

A. Monteverdi, The Venetian Madrigal Books

B. Handel, Serse

C. Mozart, Così fan tutte

D. Musorgsky, Boris Godunov

E. Tippett, The Midsummer Marriage

Paper 4. Stylistic composition

The composers prescribed are: Josquin des Prez and John Taverner

Papers 6-15. Additional papers¹

6. Music and drama in the Middle Ages

7. The sight of sound: music, painting, and history

8. Music, theology, and politics in the English Reformations, c. 1525-1625

9. French opera from the boulevards to cinema

¹ The General Board have approved the publication of ten additional papers not withstanding Regulation 14 of the Music Tripos (Old Regulations).

10. The idea of Beethoven

11. South African music

12. Music in film

13. Music and science

14. Schenkerian Analysis in theory and practice

15. Goethe after 1832: responses to Faust

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Cambridge University Reporter, 15 May 2002
Copyright © 2002 The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge.