MUSI171-06S1 (U) Semester One 2006 (University Campus)

Materials of Music 1

18 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 20 February 2006
End Date: Sunday, 2 July 2006
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 5 March 2006
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 28 May 2006

Description

Music theory with aural and written analysis and sight-singing skills.

This course focuses on tonal music theory including elementary acoustics, pitch, interval, rhythm, metre, scales, triads, textures, part-writing, melodic figuration and dissonance, together with aural and sight-singing skills.

Aural and sightsinging skills
The aural component includes the development of melodic and rhythmic memory and perception such as the ability to notate simple extracts of not more than 8 bars in length.  Harmonic perception includes the recognition of basic chords in root position and first inversion together with cadences in major and minor keys.
The singing component includes the ability to sightsing a simple melody and to pitch simple intervals.

Restrictions

MUSI105, MUSI114, MUSI205

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Roger Buckton

Lecturer

John Emeleus

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Aural Test 1 05 Apr 2006
Harmony Test 1 06 Apr 2006
Harmony Test 2 07 Jun 2006
Aural Test 2 08 Jun 2006

Course links

Library portal

Notes

Extra tutorials will be held for those students who have more limited music background.  In addition, Practica Musica and Auralia software is available for use in the School of Music Computer laboratory (Room 339 Maths and Computer Science building).

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $678.00

International fee $2,720.00

* 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 Music .

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