| COURSE NUMBER: |
MUSI 467 |
| COURSE TITLE: |
Advanced Aural Skills |
| NAME OF
INSTRUCTOR: |
Dr. Eila Peterson |
| CREDIT WEIGHT
AND WEEKLY TIME DISTRIBUTION: |
credits 1.5(hrs lect 0 - hrs sem 0 - hrs lab 3) |
| COURSE
DESCRIPTION: |
Topics include performance and recognition of modal,
freely
chromatic, octatonic, whole-tone and non-tonal melodies, non-tonal
sonorities, metrical modulation, advanced beat groupings and the 5:4
and 5:3 cross-rhythms.
Students with credit in MUSI 407 cannot receive credit in MUSI 417.
Prerequisites: MUSI 367 |
| REQUIRED TEXTS: |
- Peterson, Eila. Basics of Musical Structure at the Keyboard. Edmonton: Audigraph Music, 2005.
- Hall, Anne Carothers. Studying Rhythm. 3rd ed. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2005
- Peterson, Eila. Anthology of Canons. Edmonton: Audigraph Music, 2012.
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| MARK
DISTRIBUTION IN PERCENT: |
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| Performance tasks | 30% |
| Dictation | 30% |
| Final Exam |
40% |
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100% |
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| COURSE OBJECTIVES: |
Objectives: Students will develop musical thinking in areas outside
of normal tonality. This involves gaining more flexibility with
shifting tonic solfa, rhythm syllables, memory training and polyphonic
thinking. Rhythmic literacy, coordination, and dictation will include
the vocabulary beyond Chapter 25 in Studying Rhythm, as well as an
introduction to swing rhythms.
Course Conduct:
- The
essential skills of the musician are listening and performing
accurately. These skills are expanded, strengthened and demonstrated in
this lab through:
- Singing alone and in ensemble using tonic solfa, letter names, and numbers
- Sight-singing from hand signs, stem-and-solfa notation, and standard notation
- Rhythmic performance, while tapping or conducting or singing
- Keyboard skills including Sing-and-Play excerpts, diatonic chord progressions and score reading.
- Notating 1-, 2- and 3-part melodic material, rhythms and chord progressions.
- Music
467 is a performance-oriented course and daily practice, including trio
& duet rehearsal, outside the classroom is necessary to achieve the
course objectives.
- Attendance is crucial to your success in this class as no supplemental dictations are offered
- Necessary items at each class are manuscript paper, metronome, pencil and eraser.
- Headphones (or earbuds) are required for dictation testing in the computer lab
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| COURSE OUTLINE: | Class
time will be used to introduce new concepts, skills, and tasks,
practise group activities and dictation, and complete dictations for
grading.
Performance Testing
Students are to arrange themselves into trios for group work and part-singing.
A list of “Tasks” for testing will be developed during class time. These Tasks will include material from
the following categories:
- Melody perfornance
- Rhythm performance
- Keyboard performance
- Ensemble performance (trios & duets)
- Polyphonic thinking skills
- Memory
Each
class will include some time for testing of tasks, and times may also
be scheduled for testing outside of class time in F202. Selected tasks
may be completed by submitting a recording. Each trio will also be
scheduled for a final exam during the exam period in April.
Dictation Testing
- Informal
dictations may be given in class and collected for grading at any time.
Dictations MUST be completed on music manuscript paper, in pencil, or
they will not be accepted.
- The total number of dictations
completed for grading will be averaged and the grade will comprise 30%
of the total for the course.
- Formal dictation testing will also
occur in the computer lab (N203) using headphones. Transcription of
musical examples played on the computer, is to be handed in on
manuscript paper. The final dictation exam will take place in the lab
according to the official university exam schedule.
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