This document provides the brief for a midterm musicology presentation and paper. Students must give a 15 minute seminar presentation by January 12th or 13th 2009 on the topic "What is music?". They must also submit a 2000 word written paper and research folder by January 1st 2009. The paper must engage with ideas from the 20th century musicology module and acknowledge key historical perspectives. It may consider statements from Cage and Bailey about the nature of music. For midterm, students must give a 10 minute presentation based on analyzing their 1000 word research so far, outlining future research needs. The presentation requires use of PowerPoint.