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740-129 Music Techniques 1-2 | |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
HECS Band | 1 |
Coordinator | Professor W Bebbington |
Prerequisites | For non-BMus students: Faculty Musicianship Test or 740-139 Introduction to Music 1-2. |
Semester | 2 (view timetable) |
Contact | A 1-hour lecture and a 1-hour tutorial per week |
Subject Description | Students will be expected to have attained a sound understanding of chord function and harmonic principles within the Western musical tradition; and to be able to recognise and write fluent four-part harmonic textures, demonstrating their understanding of chord function. A study of fundamental harmonic techniques and textures within the Western musical tradition, with particular emphasis on chord function and voice-leading techniques. Candidates will commence the course by consolidating principles of writing in four-part vocal and keyboard styles within a basic underlying I-V-I tonal plan, and progress onto the use of seventh chords, approach chords, applied dominants, the cadential 6/4, chords of prolongation, sequential progressions and tonicisations. Chords will be grouped for discussion according to their function and the course will unfold in an accumulative manner. |
Assessment | Weekly written assignments (50%); 2-hour end-of-semester examination (40%); listening test (10%). |
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