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MUSV1102

Film Music

Credits 7.5
Level Foundation courses, level I
Course start Autumn 2025
Duration 1 semester
Language of instruction English
Location Trondheim
Examination arrangement School exam

About

About the course

Course content

This class is centrally focused on traditional film music, but it additionally includes considerations of related practices that employ both music and moving-image media. The course is partly organized as an historical review and partly as a thematic introduction to the strategies and practices behind the uses of music in film. At the same time, these subjects will be developed with additional attention to broader perspectives on related image-based media that have employed music in significant ways. The different methodological approaches to these subjects are reflected both in the lectures and seminars, and in the broad-based curriculum of the course.

Learning outcome

Knowledge:

An examinee who successfully completes MUSV1102 will have

  • Both an historical- and thematic-based knowledge of music in film and other visual forms of expression in which music plays a significant role.
  • Have knowledge of key issues in the relationship between music and moving images.

Skills:

An examinee with a completed qualification in MUSV1102

  • Can apply their analytical and interpretive knowledge in relation to music's function and position in motion pictures.
  • Can apply their analytical and interpretive knowledge to clearly articulate the role of music in moving-image media.
  • Can articulate their academic knowledge of the course subject in a convincing way.
  • Can formulate their own reflections on the basis of their acquired knowledge.

General competence:

An examinee with a completed qualification in MUSV1102

  • Has a conscious awareness of the interaction between music and image.

Learning methods and activities

Lectures and seminars.

Ttwo lecture-based assignments must be approved to be able to take the exam.

Compulsory assignments

  • Lecture-based assignments

Further on evaluation

No support materials are allowed with the written exam.

If the course is not passed, the student must retake the whole assessment. If the candidate retakes the exam, there is no need to retake the compulsory assignments.

Credit reductions

Course code Reduction From
MUSV2002 7.5 sp Autumn 2021
This course has academic overlap with the course in the table above. If you take overlapping courses, you will receive a credit reduction in the course where you have the lowest grade. If the grades are the same, the reduction will be applied to the course completed most recently.

Subject areas

  • Media Studies
  • Musicology
  • Music Technology

Contact information

Course coordinator

Lecturers

Department with academic responsibility

Department of Music

Examination

Examination

Examination arrangement: School exam
Grade: Letter grades

Ordinary examination - Autumn 2025

School exam
Weighting 100/100 Examination aids Code E Date 2025-11-21 Time 09:00 Duration 6 hours Exam system Inspera Assessment
Place and room for school exam

The specified room can be changed and the final location will be ready no later than 3 days before the exam. You can find your room location on Studentweb.

Sluppenvegen 14
Room SL110 hvit sone
35 candidates

Re-sit examination - Spring 2026

School exam
Weighting 100/100 Examination aids Code E Duration 6 hours Exam system Inspera Assessment Place and room Not specified yet.