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MUSC 2401: Musicianship 4
Effective date
January 2020
Department
Music
School
Arts and Sciences
Description
Musicianship 4 is the last of a four-course sequence that introduces music students to musicianship. In level 4 students expand upon skills learned in Level 3, with a particular emphasis on more chromatic harmonic materials, including listening, sight-singing, rhythm, inner ear hearing, intonation, part-singing, dictation, music theory, analysis, ostinato work and mixed meter conducting. Intervals from the harmonic and melodic minor, chord progression dictations with inversions and augmented 6th chords are introduced. More idiomatic jazz chord progressions are introduced, as well as more improvisational and other jazz stylistic strategies. Other topics introduced in this course are the application of solfege to chromatic music, intervals outside a given tonality, octatonic scales and 12-tone rows.
Credits
3.0
Year of study
2nd Year Post-secondary
Prerequisites
MUSC 2301.
Corequisites
It is highly recommended (but not required) that students also take MUSC 2403 Theory and Practice of Music 4 concurrently.
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Sight-sing music in all keys using Kodaly's system of relative solomization
- Conduct beat patterns with sight-singing and dictation
- Strategize in order to sight-sing successfully
- Identify, anticipate and prepare for common obstacles in sight-singing
- Locate pitches in a given key with the facility of the inner ear, and then be able to sing them out loud
- Sing arpeggiated chord structures in their inner ear and out loud
- Sing chromatic music built upon contemporary sonorities
- Identify, describe and sing 2-voice dictations, chord progressions in major and minor keys using inversions, secondary dominants and diminished 7th chords, mixture, modulation, chromaticism, 12-tone rows and their permutations, compound intervals, 20th century music idioms, Neapolitan and augmented 6th chords and octatonic scales
- Sing and identify V9, Vb9, V13, Vb13, V#9, Augmented V7, cadential 6/4, M7, mi7,diminished 7, V7, mi7b5, M7#5, miMa7, French 6 and quartal chords
- Sing advanced repertoire from different idioms
- Sing and improvise harmonies and background vocal parts in different idioms
- Identify potential aural reception skills
Prior Learning Assessment & Recognition (PLAR)
1. Practical and/or written examinations that demonstrate ability at or above the final exam and learning outcomes of this course.
2. A successful interview with the Music Department Leader and one other regularized music faculty member
2. A successful interview with the Music Department Leader and one other regularized music faculty member
Hours
Lecture, Online, Seminar, Tutorial: 30
Clinical, Lab, Rehearsal, Shop, Kitchen, Simulation, Studio: 30
Total Hours: 60
Clinical, Lab, Rehearsal, Shop, Kitchen, Simulation, Studio: 30
Total Hours: 60
Instructional Strategies
Lecture-demonstrations, quizzes, assignments in performance and improvisation; group work in class involving performance.
Grading System
Letter Grade (A-F)
Passing grade
D
Evaluation Plan
|
Type |
Percentage |
Assessment activity |
|
Assignments |
45 |
|
|
Midterm Exam |
10 |
Individual midterm exam |
|
Midterm Exam |
10 |
Written midterm exam |
|
Final Exam |
15 |
Individual final exam |
|
Final Exam |
20 |
Written final exam |
Course topics
- Melodic Dictation, 2-part Dictation and chord dictation
- Solfege analysis in chromatic contexts
- Pitch location
- Beat patterns
- Harmonic and Melodic Interval Recognition including compound intervals
- Singing in harmonic and melodic minor
- Singing and identifying the 7th chords of the harmonic and melodic minor Diatonic Cycle of 5ths
- Major and minor triads and diatonic 7th chords
- V9, Vb9, V13, Vb13 chords,diminished 7ths, mixture, and the Neapolitan 6.
- Chord progressions in a minor and major using inversions
- 12-tone rows and their permutations
- Switching solfege: modulation, tonicization, and use of solfege cells
- Sight-singing strategies
- Ensemble singing
- Improvising melodies in various contexts
Notes:
- Course contents and descriptions, offerings and schedules are subject to change without notice.
- Students are required to follow all College policies including ones that govern their educational experience at VCC. Policies are available on the VCC website at:
https://www.vcc.ca/about/governance--policies/policies/. - To find out if there are existing transfer agreements for this course, visit the BC Transfer Guide at https://www.bctransferguide.ca.