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MUSM2253 Aural 3 Intermediate Level

Later Year Course

Offered By School of Music
Academic Career Undergraduate
Course Subject Music
Offered in First Semester, 2009 and First Semester, 2010
Unit Value 3 units
Course Description

Aural 3 (Intermediate) builds on the foundation laid in Aural 1 and 2 study to develop students' ability to hear and apply concepts of musical language.

It continues to develop students' facility for inner hearing, aural awareness and skills in listening and notation through sight-singing, sight-reading, dictation and aural analysis. It aims to develop the students' understanding of further musical vocabulary and structures, and of harmonic, rhythmic and melodic concepts.

Learning Outcomes On successful completion of this course, students will have become musically independent, able to:
  1. apply rhythmic, melodic and harmonic tools to enhance and support their study of music;
  2. develop further from this knowledge base; and
  3. add to the pool of musical wisdom that musicians can draw from.
Indicative Assessment

Progress tests (50%) will assess student development in rhythmic and melodic acuity and harmonic understanding.

In-class assessment (50%) will account for student development in skills listed above, and also assess the expansion of their individual knowledge base and their capacity to contribute to the pool of musical wisdom.

Workload

2 hours per week, one weekly lecture and one weekly tutorial. 

In addition to the weekly lecture and tutorial, students are expected to develop their skills in their own time, to the value of one hour per week for every contact hour.

Areas of Interest Music
Requisite Statement MUSM1278 Aural 2 Foundation or MUSM1279 Aural 2 Intermediate, depending on results achieved in Aural 2
Incompatibility

MUSM2254 Aural 3 Advanced level

Prescribed Texts

Modus Vetus by Lars Edlund
The Refinement of Rhythm, Volume 2 by Bengt-Olov Palmqvist

Majors/Specialisations Composition, Musicology, and Performance
Academic Contact Bengt-Olov Palmqvist

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