Handbook : Unit informationEdith Cowan University

School: Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts

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• Unit Title

  Classical Aural 5: Romantic and Twentieth Century

• Unit Code

  MUS3506

• Year

  2019

• Enrolment Period

  1

• Version

  2

• Credit Points

  10

• Full Year Unit

  N

• Mode of Delivery

  On Campus
  

• Unit Coordinator

  Mr Micheal Anthony MCCARTHY

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Description

This unit further develops skills of aural training, music theory, harmony, counterpoint, and keyboards skills as related to the music of the Romantic period and 20th Century. The unit also focuses on modal world music. The unit also provides a basic introduction to pitch and rhythm systems of the 20th Century, including non-Western systems of music. 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 MUS2514

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

1. Apply techniques of improvisation and composition for sight singing in tonal and modal contexts.
2. Aurally recognise pitch and rhythmic structures of the Romantic/20th Century.
3. Harmonise melodies in the context of late Romantic/20th Century music.
4. Transpose and sight read modal, tonal, atonal and non-Western music.

Unit Content

1. Harmonisation of melodies in Baroque, Classical and Romantic styles.
2. Improvisation and composition.
3. Musical transcription.
4. Sight singing, modal, tonal, atonal and non-western music.
5. Singing in parts, using repertoire from the Renaissance to 20th Century.
6. Structures, forms, keys, modes, harmony, and metric modulation.
7. Systems of music theory and music literacy.

Learning Experience

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

For more information see the Semester Timetable

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.

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