School: Western Australian 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 3
  • Unit Code

    MTH3201
  • Year

    2018
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    Y
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Craig Anthony DALTON

Description

This unit consolidates the previous two years of training, aiming to produce a well-rounded musician prepared for the demands of the music theatre industry. Coursework focuses on extended harmonic language found in the repertoire, further investigation of seventh chords and extensions/alterations, modes/jazz language, irregular rhythm/metre, keyboard accompaniment in different styles, and more complex sight reading/singing.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate efficiency in relatively complex sight-singing and dictation.
  2. Demonstrate piano skills at a level consistent with Grade Three/Four AMEB piano, including the ability to provide piano accompaniment for their own singing and that of others.
  3. Demonstrate skills in score-reading, musical analysis and theory to the level of Grade Five/Six AMEB.

Unit Content

  1. Aural skill development.
  2. Application of more challenging music theory.
  3. Staff notation.
  4. Keyboard accompaniment in a range of styles.
  5. Sight singing.
  6. Singing in parts.
  7. Understanding of seventh structures.

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
ExaminationMusic theory assessment
PracticumAural assessment
TestKeyboard assessment

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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School: Western Australian 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 3
  • Unit Code

    MTH3201
  • Year

    2018
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    Y
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Craig Anthony DALTON

Description

This unit consolidates the previous two years of training, aiming to produce a well-rounded musician prepared for the demands of the music theatre industry. Coursework focuses on extended harmonic language found in the repertoire, further investigation of seventh chords and extensions/alterations, modes/jazz language, irregular rhythm/metre, keyboard accompaniment in different styles, and more complex sight reading/singing.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate aural awareness and apply aural skills.
  2. Demonstrate and apply an understanding of more advanced theoretical concepts.
  3. Demonstrate confident keyboard technique (accompaniment of self and others) in various popular styles.

Unit Content

  1. Aural skill development.
  2. Application of more challenging music theory.
  3. Staff notation.
  4. Keyboard accompaniment in a range of styles.
  5. Sight singing.
  6. Singing in parts.
  7. Understanding of seventh structures.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Full YearNot Offered21 x 1 hour ensemblesNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

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
ExaminationMusic theory assessment
PracticumAural assessment
TestKeyboard assessment

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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