EPARTS198

Materials of Music

10 Units 1000 Level Course

Not available in 2014

Previously offered in 2010, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004

EPARTS198 Material of Music is designed to further develop the student's harmony and aural skills/knowledge gained in EPARTS197. Students will investigate both first and second inversion chords, dominant seventh chord and emphasise aural training to develop the aural ability for a basic assimilation of the elementary structures.

Objectives Students will:
1. further develop harmony and aural skills.
2. gain a good working knowledge of the rudiments of music.
3. develop an understanding of harmonic procedures.
4. develop understanding in all styles of music composed in the period of tonality through actual composition.
5. develop skills related to research and academic writing for different purposes and audiences.
Content Harmony
1. Chord vocabulary, chord construction and voice leading.
2. The use of chords in first inversion. Chordvii/6 and its uses. Voice exchange
3. The harmonisation of simple phrases using the vocabulary covered.
4. The use of consecutive first inversion chords. The harmonisation of bass lines using root position and first inversion vocabulary.
5. The use of second inversion chords. The use of the tonic chord in second inversion.
6. The chord of the dominant seventh. The harmonisation of melody lines and bass lines using this extended vocabulary.
7. Further studies into voice-leading principles regarding the chord of the dominant seventh.

Aural
1. A dual approach uses aural dictation (training to convert musical sounds into written musical notation), and sight singing (training to convert written notation into sound).
2. Intervals recognized played bottom to top as well as top to bottom.
3. Melodic notation revolves around the tonic-dominant juxtaposition.
4. Sight-singing is chiefly scalic, but with the introduction of the thirds contained within the triad.
5. Rhythm dictation will include the use of rests and ties. The introduction of compound time signatures.
6. The recognition of triads, both major and minor, in root position, first inversion and second inversion continues as an integral component of larger structures.
7. The recognition of chordal structures reflecting the harmonic idiom concurrently studied.
Replacing Course(s) NA
Transition NA
Industrial Experience 0
Assumed Knowledge EPARTS197 Introduction to Materials of Music
Modes of Delivery Internal Mode
Teaching Methods Workshop
Assessment Items
Examination: Class Week 14 Harmony Examination
Other: (please specify) Week 5 Harmony Assignment - 2 pages of manuscript
Other: (please specify) Week 8 Harmony Assessment
Other: (please specify) Week 11 Harmony Assignment - 3 pages of manuscript
Other: (please specify) Week 5 Aural Comprehension Assessment
Other: (please specify) Week 10 Aural Comprehension Assessment
Other: (please specify) Week 14 Aural Comprehension Assessment
Contact Hours Workshop: for 1 hour(s) per Week for Full Term