MUSI171-07S1 (C) Semester One 2007

Materials of Music 1

18 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 26 February 2007
End Date: Sunday, 1 July 2007
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 11 March 2007
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 27 May 2007

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  Description
Test 1 05 Apr 2007 30% Harmonic Practice: Aural recognition, Writing, Analysis of printed music extracts
Test 2 07 Jun 2007 45% Harmonic Practice: Aural recognition, Writing, Analysis of printed music extracts
Sight-Singing Test 25% Individual times during week beginning Monday 28 May.

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 $659.00

International fee $2,805.00

* 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 .

All MUSI171 Occurrences

  • MUSI171-07S1 (C) Semester One 2007