The outcome of this module is strength in fundamental aural and musicianship skills. This provides a foundation that benefits all other areas of the course – including analysis, history, composition, performance, and music technology – and develops students into better performers and listeners as well as more literate musicians.
Rhythm
Basic rhythmic values including quaver and semiquaver subdivision, rests up to quaver, and two-part rhythms, all in the context of 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 6/8
Intervals
Intervals up to perfect octave
Scales & Modes
Major and minor scales and arpeggios, dorian and mixolydian modes
Triads
Triads: major, minor, augmented and diminished, in root position, first and second inversions
Cadences
Cadences: authentic, half, plagal, deceptive
Clefs
Clefs: treble, bass and alto
Conducting
Conducting patterns: 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 6/8, 9/8, 12/8
Modulation
Modulation to closely related keys
| The course features an incrementally calibrated sequence of musical elements taught using carefully selected materials and musical activities which are stylistically specific as well as developmentally appropriate. The resulting musical literacy gives students the ability to hear (internally) what they read, to write down what they hear, and to sing at sight. This is a sequential, intensive skills-based approach in the areas of rhythm, melody, harmony, form, texture, and stylistic knowledge, using material drawn from the seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries. Skills developed include inner hearing, memorisation, dictation, simultaneous playing and singing, score-reading, transposition, and reading from C clefs, with all content taught via the solfa tradition of movable doh. One lecture plus two tutorial classes per week over the academic year. |
| Module Content & Assessment | |
|---|---|
| Assessment Breakdown | % |
| Formal Examination | 50 |
| Other Assessment(s) | 50 |