MUS 202 : Materials of Music 4
Creative Arts and Industries
2020 Semester One (1203) (15 POINTS)
Course Prescription
Course Overview
This course enables students further to strengthen essential skills and develop more advanced ones, whilst at the same time engaging with music from across historical repertoires. Students will augment their understanding of the basic materials of music and how these materials inform all areas of musical practice.
Course Co-ordinator
Capabilities Developed in this Course
| Capability 1: | Disciplinary Knowledge and Practice |
| Capability 2: | Critical Thinking |
| Capability 4: | Communication and Engagement |
Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate a command of advanced precepts of voice leading and tonal harmony; (Capability 1)
- Recognize basic formal typologies (Capability 1)
- Interpret an unseen piece of music by making use of various analytical approaches and parameters (Capability 2)
- Recognize complex forms of harmonic prolongation and melodic diminution (Capability 1)
- Harmonize an advanced chorale melody in four parts in the style of J. S. Bach, making appropriate use of such features as passing notes, neighbour notes, suspensions and secondary chords, and demonstrating stylistic awareness (Capability 1)
- Understand , appreciate and comment perceptively on listening examples from a range of periods, styles, genres and composers, with particular focus on how a variety of music materials are used to create specific musical and/or dramatic effects (Capability 2)
- Complete exercises in aural perception, as follows: • perform at sight and notate from dictation more complex rhythms in a range of time signatures; • notate from dictation and sing from sight chromatic melodies in a range of clefs; fill in by aural dictation the missing sections of examples in up to four parts; sing from sight a major melody that modulates to a closely related key; sing from sight the top or bottom of a two-part piece; sing from memory the top or bottom part of a two-part piece; • recognize and notate by ear major, minor, diminished- and dominant-seventh chords, including inversions; sing arpeggiated major and minor chord inversions from a given bass note; identify a chord sequence using Roman numerals and figures, including inversions and simple altered chords, including augmented-sixth and Neapolitan-sixth chords; aurally identify simple modulations to related keys. (Capability 1)
- Demonstrate advanced understanding of critical listening skills as related to pitch internalization by singing your chosen part in a four-part piece at sight, indicating which part of the chord by hand signals, on two phrases of a score at sight (Capability 2)
- Perform perform confidently with an understanding of presented musical and syntactical style of any one piece in the curriculum (Capability 1)
- Articulate the techniques used to ensure accurate pitch and rhythm of a given score as directed (Capability 4)
Assessments
| Assessment Type | Percentage | Classification |
|---|---|---|
| Theory Coursework | 25% | Individual Coursework |
| Aural Tests | 30% | Individual Test |
| Individual Applied Musicianship Test | 15% | Individual Test |
| Final Exam | 30% | Individual Examination |
| 4 types | 100% |
| Assessment Type | Learning Outcome Addressed | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
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| Aural Tests | ||||||||||
| Individual Applied Musicianship Test | ||||||||||
| Final Exam | ||||||||||
Owing to its practical nature, Applied Musicianship and your contribution to every session are regarded as compulsory coursework. Failure to complete a compulsory coursework component means that you will receive a DNC (did not complete) for the course. If you miss more than two scheduled sessions (without medical certificate or other official written evidence) you will not satisfy this compulsory coursework requirement. This reflects the real-world reality of any professional performing group that will result in a public performance. Note that if you need to arrive late or leave early on a regular basis, this must be discussed with the course presenters immediately. You will be stopped if you disrupt the presentation of this class. Arriving late = after 11.05; leaving early = before 11.55.
Teaching & Learning Methods
Lectures and tutorials in theory and analysis:
• examine the primary musical parameters of rhythm, pitch and form, and introduce the secondary parameters such as texture;
• provide exercises and training in the handling of these materials in notated form, to enable students to recognize, identify and analyze these features and to understand their significance in a given musical context.
Lectures in aural:
• further explore these musical materials, utilizing active listening to perceive the musical characteristics of a variety of musical examples;
• provide training to enable students accurately to recreate notated musical examples, and to realize in notated form their own aural ideas, including training in melodic and rhythmic dictation, clapping rhythms at sight, singing at sight, identification of chords and aural analysis;
• support theory lectures with aural exercises in relevant weekly chapter(s) of set text.
Applied musicianship (choral performance project):
• rehearse selected repertoire, leading to a concert performance or a workshop performance;
• provide exercises in contextual listening including work on inner hearing (intervallic/melodic relationships) internal pulse and subdivision, holding a part;
• inform students of the techniques and discipline of choral ensemble singing as a tool to develop musicianship skills and professional skills in the workplace (this will help foster an immediate practical context for study undertaken in the areas of both musicianship and music theory);
• develop students’ understanding of the nature of the vocal instrument, linguistic models (including IPA) and singers’ score markings.
Learning Resources
Cook, Nicholas. A Guide to Musical Analysis. London: Dent, 1987.
Forte, Allen. Tonal Harmony in Concept and Practice. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962.
Green, Douglass M. Form in Tonal Music: An Introduction to Analysis.
Second edition. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979.
Laitz, Steven G. The Complete Musician: An Integrated Approach to Tonal Theory, Analysis, and Listening, third edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Meyer, Leonard B. Emotion and Meaning in Music. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1956.
Rothstein, William. Phrase Rhythm in Tonal Music. New York: Schirmer, 1989.
Schoenberg, Arnold. Fundamentals of Musical Composition. Edited by
Gerald Strang and Leonard Stein. Faber: London, 1970.
Tovey, Donald. Essays in Musical Analysis. Six volumes. London:
Oxford University Press, 1935-1944.
Workload Expectations
This course is a standard fifteen-point course and students are expected to spend 10 hours per week involved in each fifteen-point course that they are enrolled in.
For this course, you can expect 24 hours of lectures, 11 one-hour theory tutorials, 11 one-hour applied-musicianship classes, 10 hours of concert rehearsal and preparation, 48 hours of reading and thinking about the content and 48 hours of work on assignments and/or test preparation.
Digital Resources
Course materials are made available in a learning and collaboration tool called Canvas which also includes reading lists and lecture recordings (where available).
Please remember that the recording of any class on a personal device requires the permission of the instructor.
Academic Integrity
The University of Auckland will not tolerate cheating, or assisting others to cheat, and views cheating in coursework as a serious academic offence. The work that a student submits for grading must be the student's own work, reflecting their learning. Where work from other sources is used, it must be properly acknowledged and referenced. This requirement also applies to sources on the internet. A student's assessed work may be reviewed against online source material using computerised detection mechanisms.
Inclusive Learning
All students are asked to discuss any impairment related requirements privately, face to face and/or in written form with the course coordinator, lecturer or tutor.
Student Disability Services also provides support for students with a wide range of impairments, both visible and invisible, to succeed and excel at the University. For more information and contact details, please visit the Student Disability Services’ website at http://disability.auckland.ac.nz
Special Circumstances
If your ability to complete assessed coursework is affected by illness or other personal circumstances outside of your control, contact a member of teaching staff as soon as possible before the assessment is due.
If your personal circumstances significantly affect your performance, or preparation, for an exam or eligible written test, refer to the University’s aegrotat or compassionate consideration page: https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/students/academic-information/exams-and-final-results/during-exams/aegrotat-and-compassionate-consideration.html.
This should be done as soon as possible and no later than seven days after the affected test or exam date.
Student Feedback
At the end of every semester students will be invited to give feedback on the course and teaching through a tool called SET or Qualtrics. The lecturers and course co-ordinators will consider all feedback and respond with summaries and actions.
Your feedback helps teachers to improve the course and its delivery for future students.
Class Representatives in each class can take feedback to the department and faculty staff-student consultative committees.
Student Charter and Responsibilities
The Student Charter assumes and acknowledges that students are active participants in the learning process and that they have responsibilities to the institution and the international community of scholars. The University expects that students will act at all times in a way that demonstrates respect for the rights of other students and staff so that the learning environment is both safe and productive. For further information visit Student Charter (https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/students/forms-policies-and-guidelines/student-policies-and-guidelines/student-charter.html).
In the event of unexpected disruption
We undertake to maintain the continuity and standard of teaching and learning in all your courses throughout the year. If there are unexpected disruptions, the University has contingency plans to ensure that access to your course continues and your assessment is fair, and not compromised. Some adjustments may need to be made in emergencies. In the event of a disruption, the University and your course coordinators will make every effort to provide you with up to date information via Canvas and the University website.
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Disclaimer
Elements of this outline may be subject to change. The latest information about the course will be available for enrolled students in Canvas.
In this course you may be asked to submit your coursework assessments digitally. The University reserves the right to conduct scheduled tests and examinations for this course online or through the use of computers or other electronic devices. Where tests or examinations are conducted online remote invigilation arrangements may be used. The final decision on the completion mode for a test or examination, and remote invigilation arrangements where applicable, will be advised to students at least 10 days prior to the scheduled date of the assessment, or in the case of an examination when the examination timetable is published.