No 6308
Wednesday 22 May 2013
Vol cxliii No 31
pp. 544–578
The Faculty Board of Music gives notice that it has prescribed the following papers and subjects for the Music Tripos in 2013–14 (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 396):
NEW REGULATIONS
7.Notation
8.Advanced keyboard
9.Gospel music
10.Benjamin Britten: words and music
11.Winterreise
12.Introduction to music and science
All papers are examined by a three-hour written examination with the exception of the following:
Part Ib, Paper 8, ‘Advanced keyboard’, which consists of a practical examination involving 30 minutes’ preparation time followed by a 15-minute exam.
OLD REGULATIONS
8.Mozart’s Figaro in context
9.Italian music since 1945
10.Blues cultures
11.Perception and performance
12.14th century notation
13.Beethoven late quartets
14.Monteverdi in Mantua and Venice
15.Boris Godunov
16.tbc
17.Ethnographic approaches to world music
All papers are examined by a three-hour written examination with the exception of the following:
Part II, Paper 11, ‘Perception and performance’, which consists of a written paper of two hours’ duration together with the submission of a written report, each of which counts as 50% of the overall mark.
The Faculty Board of History give notice that they have amended their announcement of Special and Specified Subjects for Part II of the Historical Tripos, 2014, as published on 1 August 2012 (Reporter, 6276, 2011–12, p. 878), as follows:
By withdrawing the following from the list of Special Subjects for Papers 2 and 3:
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From World War to Cold War: America, Britain, Russia, and the division of Europe, 1944–1950 |
(L) |
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Asia’s revolutionary underground: from Shanghai to Java, 1918–1948 |
(M) |
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Missionary science, ethnic formation, and the religious encounter in Belgian Congo, 1908–1960 |
(O) |
By adding the following to the list of Special Subjects for Papers 2 and 3:
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Constructing the worlds of Archaic Greece (c. 750–480 bc) (Paper C1 of Part II of the Classical Tripos) |
(A) |
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The Black Death |
(E) |
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Reform and reformation: Thomas More’s England |
(F) |
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Class, party, and the politics of social identity in England, 1914–1945 |
(I) |
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Liberalism and constitutional crisis in the United States, c. 1930– c. 1965 |
(M) |
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Martin Luther King Jr and the civil rights movement |
(Q) |
By withdrawing the following from the list of Specified Subjects:
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8 |
The Near East in the age of Justinian and Muhammad, ad 527–700 |
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12 |
The middle ages on film: medieval violence and modern identities |
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15 |
Food and drink in Britain and the wider world, c. 1500–1800 |
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27 |
The history of Latin America in the colonial period, c. 1500–1830 |
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30 |
‘Islands and beaches’: the Pacific and Indian Oceans in the long nineteenth century |
By adding the following to the list of Specified Subjects:
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13 |
The Medieval universe, c.1000 to c.1600 |
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18 |
Japanese history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (Paper J6 of Part Ib of the FAMES Tripos) |
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23 |
The formation of the modern Middle East (Paper MES19 of Part Ib of the FAMES Tripos) |
By amending the title of Paper 25:
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From |
The long road to modernization: Spain, 1800–2000 |
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To |
The long road to modernization: Spain, since 1808 |
Candidates for Part II in 2014, who have previously taken Part I of the Historical Tripos and who did not offer in that Part a paper falling mainly in the period before 1750, may meet the requirement to take a pre-1750 paper in Part II by offering one of the Special Subjects A, B, C, D, E, and F or by offering one of the Papers 7, 9, 11, 13, 14, 16, and 17 or a dissertation, provided that its subject falls mainly in the period before 1750.
Candidates for Part II in 2014, who have previously taken Part I of the Historical Tripos and who did not offer in that Part a paper falling mainly in the period after 1750, may meet the requirement to take a post-1750 paper in Part II by offering one of the Special Subjects G, I, J, K, M, P, and Q or by offering Papers 4 or 5 or one of the Papers 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 28, and 29 or a dissertation, provided that its subject falls mainly in the period after 1750.
Candidates for Part II in 2014, who have previously taken Part I of the Historical Tripos and who did not offer in that Part a paper in European History, may meet the requirement to take a European History paper in Part II by offering one of the following papers: 7, 9, 14, 21, 22, and 25.
The Faculty Board are satisfied that no candidate’s preparation for examination will be adversely affected by these amendments.