MUSI271-14W (C) Whole Year 2014

Materials of Music 3

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 24 February 2014
End Date: Sunday, 16 November 2014
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 7 March 2014
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 5 September 2014

Description

Advanced music theory (aural perception and analysis of, and writing exercises in chromatic harmony)

This course offers further study of harmonic, rhythmic, and melodic notation, and develops aural skills with a basic competence in rhythmic and melodic dictation, sight-singing and sight-reading, and essential harmony.

Topics covered in this course are:

Rhythm:  notation, syncopation, rhythmic counterpoint
Melody:  melodic notation, diatonic and modal melodies, melodic perception
Harmony: extended harmony, diatonic harmony, post-tonal harmony, harmon ic perception, harmonic nomenclature
Conducting and Score-Reading Skills

Prerequisites

MUSI172 or 105

Restrictions

MUSI201, MUSI205

Course Coordinator

Glenda Keam

Lecturer

Francis Yapp

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Practical Harmony Tasks 10% Two Practical Harmony tasks (5% each) will be assessed in your allocated tutorial in Semester One.
Rhythm and Sight-Singing Assessmenjts 10% Two individual Rhythm and Sight-Singing Assessments (5% each) will take place in your allocated tutorial in Weeks 7 and 11 (Semester 1).
Conducting or Score Reading Assessments 20% Two Conducting or Score-Reading Assessments (10% each) will take place in your tutorials during Semester 2.
Analysis Exercises 20% Two Analysis Exercises (10% each) will be undertaken in Semester 2.
In-Class Test 03 Jun 2014 20%
In-Class Test 14 Oct 2014 20%

Notes

Use of Technology

This course assumes that you have sufficient information and technology skills to confidently use a computer to access material for your course.  Your written work will be handwritten and submitted in class time.

You will be required to access our learning management system - LEARN - and to become familiar with its tools.  LEARN provides easily-accessible information about the course and assessments, topics and deadlines, and supports the learning you will gain from attending all lectures and tutorials.  For help using LEARN, refer to: http://learn.canterbury.ac.nz/course/view.php?id=2157

Additional Course Outline Information

Assessment and grading system

The following shows how to translate grades to numerical scores:

A+  90–100;    A   85–89;    A-  80–84;    B+   75–79;    B 70–74;    B-   65–69;     C+  60–64;     C  55–59;     C- 50–54;     D  40–49;   E  0–39
In a course at 100- or 200-level examiners may grant restricted credit (R) which will be equivalent to a pass for all purposes except as a prerequisite.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,496.00

International fee $6,775.00

* 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.

For further information see Humanities .

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