MUSA200-22S1 (C) Semester One 2022

Musicianship, Harmony and Analysis 2

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 21 February 2022
End Date: Sunday, 26 June 2022
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 6 March 2022
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 15 May 2022

Description

This course develops skill in rhythmic, melodic and harmonic procedures, further music analysis techniques, sight-singing and sight-reading skills, including inner parts and counter-rhythms and extended harmonizations using keyboard or guitar.

This course builds on students’ training in 100-level Musicianship and Theory courses. In MUSA200, the focus will be on chromatic harmony (learning to recognise and use chords which include notes from outside the diatonic scale) and counterpoint (the art of combining several melodies together). The course will continue to develop students’ skills in sight-singing, ear training, and musical analysis.

Learning Outcomes

  • Sight-sing tonal and modal melodies within a polyphonic texture
  • Sight-read syncopated rhythms
  • Harmonise melodies using chromatic chords within a four-part texture
  • Realize straightforward and short figured bass harmonisations at the keyboard
  • Aurally recognise and notate melodies in major and minor keys and modes
  • Aurally recognise and note harmonic progressions within a four-part texture
  • Analyse short musical works from score, including transposing instruments and C clef notation, identifying significant musical elements and structural devices and demonstrating an appropriate analytical lexicon.

    Students will also gain transferable skills:
  • Skills in self-organisation, time management, the meeting of deadlines and, through the individual tests, skills performance under pressure.
  • Skills in transferring information from one dimension to another (e.g. from sight to sound and from sound to sight)
  • Skills in understanding how symbol systems (e.g. music notation) can be used to build large comprehensive structures (e.g. complete musical works)
    • 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 220

Timetable Note

Student workload (150 hours) will be allocated to:
• 23 hours attending lectures
• 11 hours attending tutorials
• 40 hours completing the Practical Musicianship Tasks
• 5 hours preparing and submitting online assessments
• 20 hours completing analysis assignments
• 51 hours self-directed study

Course Coordinator

Francis Yapp

Tutor

Alexandra Watson

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Test 1 15% Involving written and aural components
Test 2 15% Involving written and aural components
Short Test 1 10% Rhythm and sight-singing
Practical Harmony Task 1 5% Assessed in tutorials in week 4
Practical Harmony Task 2 15% Assessed in tutorials in week 8
Practical Harmony Task 3 10% Assessed in tutorials in week 12
Analysis Assignment 1 15%
Analysis Assignment 2 15%


Students will undertake:
• two online tests (involving written and aural components) worth 15% each (due 31 March and 2 June)
• one short individual test (rhythm and sight-singing) worth 10% (19 May)
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• three Practical Harmony tasks totalling 30% (assessed in tutorials in weeks 5, 8, 12)
• two analysis assignments worth 15% each (due 24 March and 26 May)

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $892.00

International fee $4,313.00

* 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 .

All MUSA200 Occurrences

  • MUSA200-22S1 (C) Semester One 2022