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Faculty of Education and Arts

School: WA Academy of Performing Arts

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Music Skills 1

  • Unit Code

    MTH1001

  • Year

    2015

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    20

  • Full Year Unit

     Y

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

Description

To provide at basic levels the technical music skills essential for a performer seeking a career in musical theatre, in the areas of music theory, aural accuracy, sight-singing and keyboard.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of the rudiments of music.
  2. Demonstrate ability at the keyboard in playing simple tunes, some major scales and sight-reading exercises.
  3. Demonstrate aural accuracy and a capacity for sight-singing at a basic level.

Unit Content

  1. AURAL - An aural introduction to pulse, tempo, rhythmic memory, melodic rhythms, time values, pitch memory, silent hearing, movement by step and leap, scales, tonality, predominating notes, range of melodies, vocal transposition, intervals, triads, melodic sequences, music in two parts, and elementary sight-singing.
  2. KEYBOARD - A concentration on playing single-line melodies in both bass and treble clef, leading to easy two-hand pieces in Semester Two. Sightreading exercises and some major scales are also included. It is expected that students will achieve a level of proficiency in keyboard skills which is consistent with the standard expected of Grade One/Two AMEB piano.
  3. MUSIC THEORY - A basic understanding of note-names, staff, clefs, accidentals, note-values, rests, barlines, time signatures (simple and compound time), scales (major and minor), key signatures, intervals (diatonic and chromatic), musical terms, and major and minor triads.
  4. STREAMING - In each of the three components studied, flexibility is provided whereby a student will be streamed to an appropiate level according to the capabilities he/she demonstrates in the particular form.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures and workshops.

Assessment

GS2 GRADING SCHEMA 2 Used for performance and/or practical based units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescription
TestMusic theory assessment
TestAural assessment
TestKeyboard assessment

Text References

  • Bellhouse, A., & Holland, D. Senior school harmony and melody. Sydney: William Brooks & Co Ltd.
  • Murphy, H., Melcher, R., & Warch, W. (1973). Music for study. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall.
  • Ottman, R. (1967). Music for sight singing. (2nd ed.). New Jersey: Prentice-Hall.
  • Thackray, R. (1978). Aural awakening. Perth: University of W.A.
  • Macpherson, S. (1970). Rudiments of music. Galliard Ltd.
  • Stainkamph, E. Essential scales and arpeggios for piano. Sydney: Allan & Co Pty Ltd.
  • Stewart, Dr. H. (1915). Rudiments of music. W.H. Paling & Co.
  • Ottman, R., & Mainous, F. (1980). Rudiments of music. (2nd ed.). New Jersey: Prentice-Hall.

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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Faculty of Education and Arts

School: WA Academy of Performing Arts

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Music Skills 1

  • Unit Code

    MTH1001

  • Year

    2015

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    20

  • Full Year Unit

     Y

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

Description

To provide at basic levels the technical music skills essential for a performer seeking a career in musical theatre, in the areas of music theory, aural accuracy, sight-singing and keyboard.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of the rudiments of music.
  2. Demonstrate ability at the keyboard in playing simple tunes, some major scales and sight-reading exercises.
  3. Demonstrate aural accuracy and a capacity for sight-singing at a basic level.

Unit Content

  1. AURAL - An aural introduction to pulse, tempo, rhythmic memory, melodic rhythms, time values, pitch memory, silent hearing, movement by step and leap, scales, tonality, predominating notes, range of melodies, vocal transposition, intervals, triads, melodic sequences, music in two parts, and elementary sight-singing.
  2. KEYBOARD - A concentration on playing single-line melodies in both bass and treble clef, leading to easy two-hand pieces in Semester Two. Sightreading exercises and some major scales are also included. It is expected that students will achieve a level of proficiency in keyboard skills which is consistent with the standard expected of Grade One/Two AMEB piano.
  3. MUSIC THEORY - A basic understanding of note-names, staff, clefs, accidentals, note-values, rests, barlines, time signatures (simple and compound time), scales (major and minor), key signatures, intervals (diatonic and chromatic), musical terms, and major and minor triads.
  4. STREAMING - In each of the three components studied, flexibility is provided whereby a student will be streamed to an appropiate level according to the capabilities he/she demonstrates in the particular form.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures and workshops.

Assessment

GS2 GRADING SCHEMA 2 Used for performance and/or practical based units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescription
TestMusic theory assessment
TestAural assessment
TestKeyboard assessment

Text References

  • Bellhouse, A., & Holland, D. Senior school harmony and melody. Sydney: William Brooks & Co Ltd.
  • Murphy, H., Melcher, R., & Warch, W. (1973). Music for study. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall.
  • Ottman, R. (1967). Music for sight singing. (2nd ed.). New Jersey: Prentice-Hall.
  • Thackray, R. (1978). Aural awakening. Perth: University of W.A.
  • Macpherson, S. (1970). Rudiments of music. Galliard Ltd.
  • Stainkamph, E. Essential scales and arpeggios for piano. Sydney: Allan & Co Pty Ltd.
  • Stewart, Dr. H. (1915). Rudiments of music. W.H. Paling & Co.
  • Ottman, R., & Mainous, F. (1980). Rudiments of music. (2nd ed.). New Jersey: Prentice-Hall.

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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