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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 6: Advanced Music Skills

  • Unit Code

    MUS3510

  • Year

    2018

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    2

  • Credit Points

    10

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Micheal Anthony MCCARTHY

Description

This unit provides advanced concepts of aural training skills, and explores advanced concepts of music theory. The unit also focuses on modal world music and provides a further investigation into 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 MUS3506

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse pitch systems of the 20th Century music.
  2. Apply techniques of improvisation and composition for sight singing in tonal and modal contexts.
  3. Aurally recognise pitch and rhythmic structures of the 20th Century.
  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.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered11 x 1 hour seminarNot Offered

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.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Creative WorkStudent compositions for class use10%
VivaSight singing and musicianship 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 6: Advanced Music Skills

  • Unit Code

    MUS3510

  • Year

    2018

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    2

  • Credit Points

    10

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Micheal Anthony MCCARTHY

Description

This unit provides advanced concepts of aural training skills, and explores advanced concepts of music theory. The unit also focuses on modal world music and provides a further investigation into 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 MUS3506

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse pitch systems of the 20th Century music.
  2. Apply techniques of improvisation and composition for sight singing in tonal and modal contexts.
  3. Aurally recognise pitch and rhythmic structures of the 20th Century.
  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.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered11 x 1 hour seminarNot Offered

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.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Creative WorkStudent compositions for class use10%
VivaSight singing and musicianship 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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