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Lismore Session 2 Session 2

Unit Summary

Unit type

UG Coursework Unit

Credit points

12

AQF level

7

Level of learning

Introductory

Former School/College

Former School of Arts and Social Sciences

Unit aim

Develops fundamental skills in the aural perception of music, through listening, sight reading, performing, and transcribing. These skills are developed through the study of form, rhythm, melody, harmony and timbre in patterns and contexts common to contemporary music.

Unit content

  • Rhythms
  • Intervals
  • Melodies
  • Scales
  • Chord progressions
  • Timbres
  • Textual elements
  • Musical structures
  • Transcriptions

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

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On completion of this unit, students should be able to: GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
1 perform, recognise and dictate fundamental rhythmic patterns
2 sing, recognise and dictate diatonic intervals up to a 9th
3 sight sing, recognise and dictate melodies based on simple scales and modes
4 sing arpeggios, recognise and dictate chord progressions based on fundamental harmonic vocabulary
5 transcribe simple songs and notate a lead chart
6 recognise popular instrumental vocal timbres, textures, forms and structures used in contemporary music
7 apply fundamental aural skills in rhythmic, melodic and harmonic perception to the understanding, interpretation and performance of simple contemporary music repertoire and practice.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. perform, recognise and dictate fundamental rhythmic patterns
    • GA4:
    • GA6:
  2. sing, recognise and dictate diatonic intervals up to a 9th
    • GA4:
    • GA6:
  3. sight sing, recognise and dictate melodies based on simple scales and modes
    • GA4:
    • GA6:
  4. sing arpeggios, recognise and dictate chord progressions based on fundamental harmonic vocabulary
    • GA4:
    • GA6:
  5. transcribe simple songs and notate a lead chart
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
    • GA6:
  6. recognise popular instrumental vocal timbres, textures, forms and structures used in contemporary music
    • GA4:
    • GA6:
  7. apply fundamental aural skills in rhythmic, melodic and harmonic perception to the understanding, interpretation and performance of simple contemporary music repertoire and practice.
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
    • GA6:

Prescribed texts

  • Fitzgerald, J, 2003, Popular Music Theory and Musicianship, Revised Edn, Hazelmount Publishing, East Lismore. ISBN: 0-9750568-0-8.
Prescribed texts may change in future teaching periods.