MUSA200-24S2 (C) Semester Two 2024

Musicianship, Harmony and Analysis 2

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 15 July 2024
End Date: Sunday, 10 November 2024
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 28 July 2024
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 29 September 2024

Description

This course further develops skills in musicianship and analysis, including counterpoint and chromatic harmony.

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

  • Students who pass this course will be able to:
  • Play chord progressions notated in lead-sheet symbols at the keyboard
  • Realize straightforward and short figured bass harmonisations at the keyboard
  • Harmonise melodies using chromatic chords within a four-part texture
  • Aurally recognise and notate melodies and harmonic progressions
  • 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
  • Find patterns in complex information

      • 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

MUSI220

Timetable 2024

Students must attend one activity from each section.

Lecture A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Monday 13:00 - 14:00 A8 Lecture Theatre
15 Jul - 25 Aug
9 Sep - 20 Oct
Lecture B
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Thursday 09:00 - 10:00 A8 Lecture Theatre
15 Jul - 25 Aug
9 Sep - 20 Oct
Tutorial A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Friday 09:00 - 10:00 Fine Arts 225 Computer Lab
15 Jul - 25 Aug
9 Sep - 20 Oct
02 Friday 10:00 - 11:00 Fine Arts 225 Computer Lab
15 Jul - 25 Aug
9 Sep - 20 Oct
03 Friday 11:00 - 12:00 Fine Arts 225 Computer Lab
15 Jul - 25 Aug
9 Sep - 20 Oct

Timetable Note

Student workload (150 hours) will be allocated to:
 24 hours attending lectures
 12 hours attending keyboard labs
 40 hours completing the Practical Harmony tasks
 20 hours completing analysis assignments
 55 hours self-directed study (including preparation for tutorials)

Course Coordinator

Francis Yapp

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Practical Harmony Tasks 30%
Analysis Assignments 30%
Tutorial Participation 10% Including completion of written and practical exercises in preparation for tutorials
EXAM 30%

Textbooks / Resources

Recommended Reading

Ralph Turek and Daniel McCarthy; Theory for Today’s Musician ; 3rd; Routledge, 2019.

Ralph Turek and Daniel McCarthy; Workbook to Accompany Theory for Today’s Musician, 3rd edn ; 2nd; Routledge, 2019.

These books can be found in the UC Library. The textbook (not workbook) is available as an ebook from the UC Library.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $942.00

International fee $4,663.00

* 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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