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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 Techniques 3: Renaissance and Baroque

  • Unit Code

    MUS2519

  • Year

    2015

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    5

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

Description

This unit examines the compositional techniques of Renaissance and Baroque music. Students analyse and pastiche musical styles and forms from 1500 to 1750.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse and manipulate Renaissance and Baroque counterpoint.
  2. Demonstrate a fluency with common-practice harmony and counterpoint.
  3. Pastiche various Renaissance and Baroque styles and forms.
  4. Understand the music of the Renaissance and Baroque from the inside.

Unit Content

  1. Baroque contrapuntal forms.
  2. Figured Bass.
  3. Harmonising a chorale in the style of J.S. Bach.
  4. Species counterpoint.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures

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
ExaminationExamination40%
AssignmentAssignments60%

Text References

  • Schubert, P. (2008). Modal counterpoint, renaissance style. (2nd ed.). NY: Oxford University Press.
  • Handel, G.F., & Ledbetter, D. (1989). Continuo playing according to Handel: His figured bass exercises. Early music series. Oxford, NY: Oxford University Press.
  • Christensen, T.S. (2010). Partimento and continuo playing in theory and in practice. Collected writings of the Orpheus Institute. Leuven: Leuven University Press.
  • Christensen, J.B. (2002). 18th century continuo playing: A historical guide to the basics. Kassel, NY: Barenreiter

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.

MUS2519|1|1

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 Techniques 3: Renaissance and Baroque

  • Unit Code

    MUS2519

  • Year

    2015

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    5

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

Description

This unit examines the compositional techniques of Renaissance and Baroque music. Students analyse and pastiche musical styles and forms from 1500 to 1750.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse and manipulate Renaissance and Baroque counterpoint.
  2. Demonstrate a fluency with common-practice harmony and counterpoint.
  3. Pastiche various Renaissance and Baroque styles and forms.
  4. Understand the music of the Renaissance and Baroque from the inside.

Unit Content

  1. Baroque contrapuntal forms.
  2. Figured Bass.
  3. Harmonising a chorale in the style of J.S. Bach.
  4. Species counterpoint.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures

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
ExaminationExamination40%
AssignmentAssignments60%

Text References

  • Christensen, J.B. (2002). 18th century continuo playing: A historical guide to the basics. Kassel, NY: Barenreiter
  • Schubert, P. (2008). Modal counterpoint, renaissance style. (2nd ed.). NY: Oxford University Press.
  • Handel, G.F., & Ledbetter, D. (1989). Continuo playing according to Handel: His figured bass exercises. Early music series. Oxford, NY: Oxford University Press.
  • Christensen, T.S. (2010). Partimento and continuo playing in theory and in practice. Collected writings of the Orpheus Institute. Leuven: Leuven University Press.

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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