MUSA201-18S2 (C) Semester Two 2018

Harmony and Score-Reading

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 16 July 2018
End Date: Sunday, 18 November 2018
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 27 July 2018
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 12 October 2018

Description

This course will enable students to develop aural and notation skills in complex rhythmic, melodic and harmonic processes and skills in music analysis techniques including the analysis of orchestral scores. Students will also learn to conduct from a four-part score and/or perform a simple keyboard reduction from an orchestral score.

This course develops students’ skills in music analysis and musicianship. The focus is on understanding and analysing musical form, with a practical application in conducting and score-reading. It also aims to consolidate students’ understanding of chromatic and diatonic harmony, and to foster an appreciation of harmonic analysis as part of a wider perspective on applied music analysis.

Learning Outcomes

  • Students who pass this course will:
  • Be able to analyse musical works both aurally and by study of the score;
  • Be able to discern common forms, including binary, ternary, sonata, and rondo forms;
  • Be able to conduct from vocal and chamber-music scores;
  • Have a comprehensive understanding of chromatic harmony;
  • Be able to recognise key elements of post-tonal harmony;

    and have further developed the following transferable skills:

  • The ability to see patterns in complex information;
  • The ability to transfer information from one dimension to another (e.g. from sight to sound and from sound to sight);
  • An understanding of how symbol systems (e.g. music notation) can be used to build large comprehensive structures (e.g. complete musical works);
  • Self-organization, time management, the meeting of deadlines and —through the individual
      tests—performance under pressure.
    • University Graduate Attributes

      This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:

      Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award

      Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.

Prerequisites

Restrictions

MUSI 271

Course Coordinator

Francis Yapp

Lecturer

Glenda Keam

Tutor

Matthew Everingham

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Indvidual Assessment 1 10% Conducting/score-reading
Individual Assessment 2 20% Conducting/score-reading
Analysis Assignment 1 15% In August
Analysis Assignment 2 20% In September
Analysis Assignment 3 15% In October
Test 1 20% Involving written and aural components in October

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Turek, Ralph. , McCarthy, Daniel William; Theory for today's musician ; 2nd ed; Routledge, 2014 (Also - Ralph Turek and Daniel McCarthy, Workbook to Accompany Theory for Today’s Musician, 2nd edn (New York: Routledge, 2014) These books can be bought from the University Bookshop. There is also a companion website to the textbook, which can be).

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $834.00

International fee $3,600.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

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