MUSA101-23S2 (C) Semester Two 2023

Musicianship, Harmony and Analysis 1

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 July 2023
End Date: Sunday, 12 November 2023
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 30 July 2023
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 1 October 2023

Description

Continued development of students' skills in music analysis, harmony (including SATB part writing) and musicianship (sight singing, melodic and harmonic dictation, and keyboard harmonisation).

This course builds on the musicianship and theory training begun in MUSA 100. Students will gain skills in writing for four-part choir, using the keyboard as a tool for harmony and analysis, hearing and analysing chord progressions, analysing music in different styles and genres, sight-singing, and notating music hear by ear. The course will be of interest to musicians from different genres of art and popular music.

Learning Outcomes

  • Students who pass this course will:
  • Have highly-developed aural skills, including competence in sight-singing and melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic dictation;
  • Have an understanding of tonal harmony, including diatonic harmony and simple chromatic harmony;
  • Be able to harmonise simple melodies, and perform these harmonisations at the keyboard;
  • Be able to analyse music from score (including scores using C-clefs and transposing instruments);
  • Be able to discern 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

MUSA100 or equivalent preparation approved by the Head of School

Restrictions

MUSI112, MUSI171

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Francis Yapp

Tutor

Courtney Hickmott

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Tutorial Assessment 20% Continuous assessment based on participation in, and preparedness for, all tutorials.
Practical Harmony Task 1 15%
Analysis Assignment 1 10%
Practical Harmony Task 2 15%
Online Test 20%
Analysis Assignment 2 20%


Please check the course LEARN page for further details and updates.

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Ralph Turek and Daniel McCarthy,; Workbook to Accompany Theory for Today’s Musician ; Routledge, 2019 (These books can be bought from the University Bookshop; there are also copies in the UC Library).

Turek, Ralph , McCarthy, Daniel William; Theory for today's musician ; Third edition; Routledge, 2019 (These books can be bought from the University Bookshop; there are also copies in the UC Library. If you have the second edition, this is fine too. The textbook (not workbook) is available as an ebook from the UC Library).

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $916.00

International fee $4,488.00

* 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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