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

    Classical Aural 3: Renaissance and Baroque
  • Unit Code

    MUS2506
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    10
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Micheal Anthony MCCARTHY

Description

This unit integrates aural training, music theory, harmony, counterpoint, and keyboards skills as related to the music of the renaissance, baroque and classical periods. Commonalities and specialities of a variety of different musical conventions will be examined. Students learn to deal intelligently with various kinds of music and to function more effectively as performers, composers, analysts, and sensitive listeners.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from MUS1514

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply techniques of improvisation and composition for sight singing in the tonal context.
  2. Aurally recognise intervals, chords, chord progressions and rhythms.
  3. Harmonise melodies and bass lines.
  4. Transpose and sight read.

Unit Content

  1. Harmonisation of melodies.
  2. Improvisation and basic composition.
  3. Musical transcription.
  4. Sight singing.
  5. Singing in parts.
  6. Structures, forms, keys, harmony, and modulation.
  7. Systems of music theory and music literacy.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, Workshops.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework 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
TypeDescriptionValue
Creative WorkStudent compostions for class use10%
VivaSight singing and musicanship examination90%

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

    Classical Aural 3: Renaissance and Baroque
  • Unit Code

    MUS2506
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    10
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Micheal Anthony MCCARTHY

Description

This unit integrates aural training, music theory, harmony, counterpoint, and keyboards skills as related to the music of the renaissance, baroque and classical periods. Commonalities and specialities of a variety of different musical conventions will be examined. Students learn to deal intelligently with various kinds of music and to function more effectively as performers, composers, analysts, and sensitive listeners.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from MUS1514

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply techniques of improvisation and composition for sight singing in the tonal context.
  2. Aurally recognise intervals, chords, chord progressions and rhythms.
  3. Harmonise melodies and bass lines.
  4. Transpose and sight read.

Unit Content

  1. Harmonisation of melodies.
  2. Improvisation and basic composition.
  3. Musical transcription.
  4. Sight singing.
  5. Singing in parts.
  6. Structures, forms, keys, harmony, and modulation.
  7. Systems of music theory and music literacy.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, Workshops.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework 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
TypeDescriptionValue
Creative WorkStudent compostions for class use10%
VivaSight singing and musicanship examination90%

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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