Not available in 2014
Previously offered in 2010, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004
EPARTS197 Introduction to Materials of Music investigates the fundamentals for the development of musical skills by the study of harmony and aural. Students will develop knowledge of the rudiments of music, harmonic procedures, styles of music, aural melodies and tonal concepts.
| Objectives | Students will: 1. develop understanding in all styles of music composed in the period of tonality through actual composition. 2. undertake aural training in a specific class, concentrating entirely upon the development of aural ability for a basic assimilation of the elementary structures. 3. study rudimentary harmonic procedures. 4. develop skills related to research and academic writing for different purposes and audiences. |
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| Content | Harmony 1. Studies of chord vocabulary, chord construction and voice leading 2. The use of dominant chord in relation to the tonic chord. Perfect cadences. Key signatures and scales. Intervals. 3. The subdominant chord in relation to the tonic chord. The plagal cadence. The harmonisation of cadences within this context. 4. The use of the subdominant chord in relation to the dominant chord. 5. Further three chord progressions using the existing vocabulary. The construction of major and minor tonic triads in first inversion and second inversion. 6. The chord of the submediant, and its relation to the dominant. 7. Application of harmonic principles, as shown by composers of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. 8. Through a series of graded examples, students develop the ability to notate and produce simple tonal concepts: melodies, chords, voice leading principles and harmonic idiom. Aural 1. A dual approach sees the use of dictation (training to convert musical sounds into written musical notation), and sight singing (training to convert written notation into sound). 2. Recognition and production of the essential intervals of the major/minor tonal system. 3. The notation of simple melodies. Time signatures will be simple. 4. Sight-singing over a small compass and scalic. 5. The development of strong rhythmic sense. 6. The construction and recognition of triads, both major and minor, in root position, first inversion, and second inversion. 7. The recognition of chordal structures reflecting the harmonic idiom concurrently studied. |
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| Replacing Course(s) | NA | ||||||||||||||
| Transition | NA | ||||||||||||||
| Industrial Experience | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| Assumed Knowledge | Fluency in the reading of music, both on a single line and as a piano score. | ||||||||||||||
| Modes of Delivery | Internal Mode | ||||||||||||||
| Teaching Methods | Workshop | ||||||||||||||
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| Contact Hours | Workshop: for 2 hour(s) per Week for Full Term |